Welcome to the second edition of Prosperous Planet's planetary boundary series, an informative, business-oriented take on the nine planetary boundaries. These boundaries reflect a new set of challenges that businesses need to address to navigate towards success in the Anthropocene. 🌍
The planetary boundaries concept was first established in 2009 by former Stockholm Resilience Centre director Johan Rockström and a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists. They identified nine processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system, the crossing of which increases the risk of generating large-scale abrupt or irreversible environmental changes which would have cascading effects on society.
Grounded in an understanding of how different facets of the Anthropocene, including the planetary boundaries, profoundly change the business context, Prosperous Planet bridges this leading scientific knowledge to the business world, helping to create business futures fit for the Anthropocene.
The second planetary boundary that we are highlighting, biosphere integrity, is one of the most severely crossed among the nine planetary boundaries. This boundary is dependent on the rate and scale of biodiversity loss and extinctions.
If companies embrace science-based, regenerative transformations to their business models, we can ensure biosphere integrity is safeguarded for both environmental and economic success.
Such transformation entails a shift from production that relies on unsustainable land management that destroys ecosystems and pollutes land and water to a form of production that instead protects and revitalizes Earth’s natural resources. Does your company have a plan to protect biosphere integrity?
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