Prosperity Without Growth is a book written by author and economist Tim Jackson. It was first published as a report by the Sustainable Development Commission. The report quickly became the most downloaded report in the Commission’s nine-year history when it was published in 2009.
The Doughnut, or Doughnut Economics, is a diagram used to show how to develop in a way that protects both the planet and people. It looks like a doughnut or a lifebelt, with a hole in the center. The hole represents the number of people who do not have access to basic needs like healthcare, education, and fairness.
The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) studies how people and nature can live and grow together on a planet facing challenges. The center works together with Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The center’s mission is to focus on social-ecological resilience, which means studying how humans and nature function as a single system.
Planetary boundaries are a system used to describe the limits of human activities on Earth. If these limits are crossed, the environment may no longer be able to maintain balance. This could cause the Earth system to leave the Holocene, a stable period in Earth’s history during which human societies developed.
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was created during the 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference. Its proposed name was the “Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.” The GBF was officially accepted by the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on December 19, 2022. It is often described as a “Paris Agreement for Nature.” This agreement is one of a few under the guidance of the CBD and is considered the most important one so far.
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), also called the Biodiversity Convention, is an international agreement. It has three main goals: to protect biodiversity, to use natural resources in ways that do not harm the environment, and to share benefits fairly from genetic resources. Its purpose is to help countries create plans to protect and use biodiversity wisely.
The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity, also called the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), is an agreement added to the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2010. Its goal is to help achieve one of the CBD’s three main objectives: ensuring fair sharing of benefits from using genetic resources, which helps protect and use biodiversity wisely. The protocol requires countries that agree to it to create rules about accessing genetic resources, sharing benefits, and following the agreement.
The “30 by 30” initiative, also written as “30 × 30,” is a global effort for governments to set aside 30% of Earth’s land and ocean areas as protected places by the year 2030. This goal was first suggested in a 2019 article published in Science Advances, titled “A Global Deal for Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets,” which emphasized the importance of increasing nature protection to help reduce the effects of climate change. The initiative was started by the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People in 2020.
The “30 by 30” initiative aims to help governments protect 30% of Earth’s land and ocean areas by 2030. This goal was suggested in a 2019 article titled “A Global Deal for Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets,” which emphasized the importance of protecting nature to help reduce climate change. The plan was started by the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People in 2020.
“30 by 30” (or “30 × 30”) is a global effort for governments to protect 30% of Earth’s land and ocean areas by 2030. This goal was first suggested in a 2019 article in Science Advances titled “A Global Deal for Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets,” which emphasized the importance of protecting nature to help reduce climate change. The initiative was started by the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People in 2020.