Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses

Xuemei Bai; Syezlin Hasan; Lauren Seaby Andersen; Anders Bjørn; Şiir Kilkiş; Daniel Ospina; Jianguo Liu; Sarah E. Cornell; Oscar Sabag Muñoz; Ariane de Bremond; Beatrice Crona; Fabrice DeClerck; Joyeeta Gupta; Holger Hoff; Nebojsa Nakicenovic; David Obura; Gail Whiteman; Wendy Broadgate; Steven J. Lade; Juan Rocha; Johan Rockström; Ben Stewart-Koster; Detlef van Vuuren; Caroline Zimm

doi:10.1038/s41893-023-01255-w

Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses

Xuemei Bai^*, Syezlin Hasan, Lauren Seaby Andersen, Anders Bjørn, Şiir Kilkiş, Daniel Ospina, Jianguo Liu, Sarah E. Cornell, Oscar Sabag Muñoz, Ariane de Bremond, Beatrice Crona, Fabrice DeClerck, Joyeeta Gupta, Holger Hoff, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, David Obura, Gail Whiteman, Wendy Broadgate, Steven J. Lade, Juan RochaJohan Rockström, Ben Stewart-Koster, Detlef van Vuuren, Caroline Zimm

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Abstract

Operating within safe and just Earth system boundaries requires mobilizing key actors across scale to set targets and take actions accordingly. Robust, transparent and fair cross-scale translation methods are essential to help navigate through the multiple steps of scientific and normative judgements in translation, with clear awareness of associated assumptions, bias and uncertainties. Here, through literature review and expert elicitation, we identify commonly used sharing approaches, illustrate ten principles of translation and present a protocol involving key building blocks and control steps in translation. We pay particular attention to businesses and cities, two understudied but critical actors to bring on board.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	108-119
Number of pages	12
Journal	Nature Sustainability
Volume	7
Issue number	2
Early online date	Jan 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01255-w
Publication status	Published - 4 Jan 2024

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This work is part of the Earth Commission, which is hosted by Future Earth and is the science component of the Global Commons Alliance. The Global Commons Alliance is a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, with support from Oak Foundation, MAVA, Porticus, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Tiina and Antti Herlin Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Global Environment Facility and Generation Foundation. The Earth Commission is also supported by the Global Challenges Foundation and Frontiers Research Foundation. Individual researchers were supported by the Australian Government (Australian Research Council Future Fellowship FT200100381 to S.J.L.) and the Swedish Research Council Formas (grant 2020-00371 to S.J.L.). We thank S. Bringezu for his valuable inputs and V. Vijay for her comments on an earlier version of this paper. The authors take full responsibility for the contents and any remaining errors.

Funders	Funder number
Earth Commission
Frontiers Research Foundation
Global Challenges Foundation
MAVA, Porticus, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Oak Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Australian Research Council	FT200100381
Australian Research Council
Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas	2020-00371
Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas
Tiina ja Antti Herlinin säätiö

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Envrironmental impact
sustainability

UN SDGs

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Bai, X., Hasan, S., Andersen, L. S., Bjørn, A., Kilkiş, Ş., Ospina, D., Liu, J., Cornell, S. E., Sabag Muñoz, O., de Bremond, A., Crona, B., DeClerck, F., Gupta, J., Hoff, H., Nakicenovic, N., Obura, D., Whiteman, G., Broadgate, W., Lade, S. J., ... Zimm, C. (2024). Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses. Nature Sustainability, 7(2), 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01255-w

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