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This powerful book shows us that we are in deep denial about the magnitude of the global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world. Despite growing scientific consensus on major environmental threats as well as resource depletion, societies are largely continuing with business as usual, at best attempting to tinker at the margins of the problems. The authors argue that regardless of whether governments respond to the economic crisis through additional stimulus packages or reduced government spending, environmental and resource constraints will remain. The crisis will b

Three revolutions that shaped our planet -- A Scottish janitor and a Serbian mathematician discover Earth's hair trigger -- A "wise man" arrives -- The Goldilocks epoch -- Three scientific insights have changed how we view Earth -- Planetary boundaries -- Hothouse Earth -- Emergency on planet Earth -- Planetary stewardship -- The energy transition -- Feeding 10 billion people wihtin planetary boundaries -- Inequality is destabilizing Earth -- Building tomorrow's cities -- The population bomb defused -- Taming the technosphere -- A global economy within planetary boundaries -- Earthshot politics and policies -- The roaring 2020s: Four tipping points are converging -- Wise Earth.

2009 hatte J. Rockström, schwedischer Resilienzforscher, mit weiteren Klimaexperten das Konzept der Planetary Boundaries (planetarische Grenzen) veröffentlicht. Planetarische Grenzen gelten ihm als Leitplanken, um Risiken zu verhindern, in die ökologische Katastrophe abzustürzen. Verhalten optimistisch beurteilt der Autor die Zukunft unseres Planeten aus der Überzeugung, dass technologische Innovationen Kipppunkte abwenden helfen - und das mit nur minimalem Wandel des Lebensstils. Dazu aber sei eine grundlegend neue Strategie erforderlich. Mit den eindrücklichen Farbfotos des schwedischen Fotografen und Filmemachers Mattias Klum, den informativen farbigen Abbildungen und Diagrammen sowie dem ausdrü

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: The Case for Action -- There Is No Business as Usual in a Turbulent World -- The Sustainability Leadership Model -- A Reader's Guide -- Expönentiality Cheat Sheet -- 2: The Northern Lights Shine Bright -- Getting to the Bottom of Brand Sweden -- Small but Mighty -- What's in a Word? -- A Model for Inclusive Growth -- Sustainability at Top of the Agenda -- Respect for Nature -- A Responsibility to Lead -- Can't We All Agree? -- Part I: Sustainability Leadership Model 1.0: The Foundation -- 3: Purpose-driven Leadership -- A Generation Searching for Meaning -- Finding True Purpose -- Being Honest About Challenges -- Moving from Vision to Action -- Make the Journey Inclusive -- Build a Coalition of the Willing -- The Most Important Business Asset -- 4: A Stake in the Ground -- Laying the Foundation -- Know Your Footprint -- Map What Is Most Material -- Understand Stakeholders' Priorities -- Remember: Customer Is King -- Encourage Employees to Lead the Way -- Get Boards and Owners Onboard -- Make the Case to Investors -- Reach Out to NGOs and Civil Society -- Integrate Across the Organization -- Reporting on Performance -- 5: How to Earn Trust -- Responsible Business Matters -- Three Building Blocks of Responsible Business -- Building Block 1: Embedding Ethical Conduct in Culture and Values -- Telia Company's Wake-up Call: Coming Back from a Corruption Scandal -- Building Block 2: Governance and Tone -- After Dieselgate: "Crisis Is an Opportunity" -- Georg Kell's Three Lessons in Crisis Management -- When Action Counts: Echoes of Bhopal for Electrolux -- Building Block 3: Proactive Risk Management -- Part II: Sustainability Leadership Model 2.0: The Core -- 6: Embedding Sustainability in the Core.

The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.

Contents: Preface: A collective book project - the last chance? Voluntary actors in an ecological and economic transition -- Part I: Introduction -- Section 1. Scientific backgrounds -- 1. Science, society and a sustainable future / Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern -- 2. Conservation psychology and climate change / Susan Clayton -- 3. Capitalism and the curse of external effects / Claude Henry -- Section 2. Setting the scene -- 4. Costa Rica as pioneer of a green social contract / Monica Araya -- 5. The carbon tax in Sweden / Thomas Sterner -- 6. Lessons from the Obama White House: how climate policy really gets done / Alice C. Hill -- 7. Climate policy in China: an overview / Ye Qi, Xiaofan Zhao and Nicholas Stern -- 8. The Paris Agreement on climate change: What legacy? / Laurence Tubiana and Emmanuel Guerin -- Part II: Defenders -- 9. Introduction to Part II / Jonathan Watts -- 10. To protect the Amazon, defend the people of the forest / Maria do Socorro Costa Silva -- 11. Of chainsaws and grace: Direct action by eco-vigilantes in the Philippines / Bobby Chan -- 12. Social justice goes hand in hand with environmental campaigns - and not just in Africa / Phyllis Omido -- 13. Living our values: Using art and technology to campaign for nature in Turkey / Birhan Erkutlu and Tuba Günal -- Part III: Litigants -- 14. Introduction to Part III / Marie Toussaint and Claude Henry -- 15. The Urgenda case in the Netherlands: creating a revolution through the courts / Marjan Minnesma -- 16. Juliana v. United States and the global youth-led legal campaign for a safe climate / Patti Moore, Danny Noonan and Erik Woodward -- 17. How policymakers imperil coming generations' future and what to do about it / Ridhima Pandey -- 18. Protecting the rights of future generations through climate litigation: lessons from the struggle against deforestation in the Colombian Amazon / Camila Bustos, Valentina Rozo-Ángel and Gabriela Eslava-Bejarano -- 19. People's climate case - families and youth take the EU to court over its failure to address the climate crisis / E. Deville, L. Dubois Gökahin -- 20. Climate change claim on behalf of New Zealand's indigenous Maori peoples / Michael Sharp, Nicole Smith and Tania Te Whenua -- 21 France: L'affaire du siècle : the story of a mass mobilization for climate / Marie Toussaint -- Part IV: Coming generations on the front line -- 22. Introduction to Part IV / Claude Henry -- 23. Fridays for Future - FFF Europe and beyond / Anuna De Wever, Luisa Neubauer and Katrien van der Heyden -- 24. The Fridays for Future movement in Uganda and Nigeria / Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Sadrach Nirere and Adenike Titilope Oladosu -- 25. The origins of school strike 4 climate NZ / Sophie Handford and Raven Maeder -- 26. 350.org 231 / William "Bill" McKibben -- 27. How to become an engineer in the ecological crisis? / Antoine Bizien, Elsa Deville and Lucas Dubois -- 28. Ecological aspirations of youth: How higher education could fall between two stools / Alessia Lefébure -- Part V: Entrepreneurs -- 29. Introduction to Part V / Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor -- 30. Catching mighty north sea winds / Claude Henry -- 31. Providing electricity from rice husk in rural India / Claude Henry -- 32. Heat pumps for decarbonizing buildings / Dominique Bureau -- 33. The rise of supercapacitors: Making electric vehicles as convenient as ordinary ones / Claude Henry -- 34. From scooter to boat: innovations in electric transport in cities of Southeast Asia / Pippo Ranci -- 35. The third attempt at the electric car might be the successful one / Geoffrey Heal -- 36. Solar cookstoves for adaptation to degrading natural conditions / Claude Henry -- 37. Carbon capture from ambient air: a brake on climate change? / Claude Henry -- 38. Ecological engineering in coastal protection / Claude Henry -- 39. Better to corrupt plastics than the environment / Pippo Ranci -- 40. Drip irrigation: Daniel Hillel's legacy / Claude Henry -- 41. Making the case for agroecological innovation: the need for technical but also political entrepreneurs / Sébastien Treyer -- 42. Radical transformation in global supply chains: can new business models be based on biodiversity in the agrifood industry? / Sébastien Treyer -- 43. Ethan Brown - the protein revolutionary / Geoffrey Heal -- 44. How to make a sustainable living in a tropical forest: the case of Suruí Indians in the Amazon Rainforest - success under threat / Claude Henry -- 45. Migrants to repopulate depopulated villages - Riace in Calabria, Italy and its mayor Mimmo Lucano / Pippo Ranci -- 46. How Loos-en-gohelle, a derelict mining town in the north of France, has become a standard in sustainable development / Michel Berry -- Part VI: Investors -- 47. Introduction to Part VI / Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor -- 48. Unleashing the power of financial markets for the green transition / Jeremy Oppenheim and Catharina Dyvik -- 49. The case for fossil fuel divestment / Stephen B. Heintz -- 50. How can finance be used to combat climate change? / Alain Grandjean -- 51. China's pioneering green finance / Ma Jun -- Part VII: Communicators -- 52. Introduction to Part VII / Johan Rockström -- 53. Communicating climate change science to diverse audiences / Asmeret Asefaw Berhe -- 54. Global marine fisheries: avoiding further collapses / Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly -- 55. Why are we so much more afraid of Covid-19 than of climate change? Early lessons from a health crisis for the communication of climate change / François Gemenne and Anneliese Depoux -- 56. Communicating the climate emergency: Imagination, emotion, action / Genevieve Guenther -- 57. Climate change: From research to communication / Jean Jouzel -- 58. Communicating biodiversity loss and its link to economics / Georgina M. Mace -- 59. Helping trusted messengers find their voice on climate change / Edward Maibach -- 60. From climate scientist to climate communicator: a process of evolution / Michael E. Mann -- 61. Communicating science beyond the ivory tower / David R. Montgomery -- Index.

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