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Nov 21, 2024 | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer |Johan Rockström
by Johan Rockstrom and Tania Strauss*
The global water crisis is escalating and knocking the water cycle off kilter, with huge implications for economies, societies and the planet. We can see this through increasingly frequent and devastating droughts and floods, which are local manifestations of a destabilised hydrological cycle.
Nearly half of the rain that falls on land originates from land, not oceans.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
arabnews.com | Mariana Mazzucato |Johan Rockström
Global freshwater supplies in the balance Short Urlhttps://arab.news/6dfrg While the world’s attention has been on the US election, the rising number of extreme weather events — from disastrous flooding in Spain to southern Africa’s worst drought in a century — highlights the need to remain focused on climate change, biodiversity loss and a changing water cycle. These crises are related and the symptoms are getting worse.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Johan Rockström
IdeasBy Johan RockströmOctober 2, 2024 12:00 PM EDTRockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians. The results of the planet’s first annual physical—a complete health check—are in, and they are alarming.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
ted.com | Johan Rockström
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kari C. Nadeau |Antonia Schuster |Johan Rockström |Jürgen Orasche
1 CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION ARE GETTING LOUDER, BUT THEY ARE NOT HAVING A LASTING IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AS A WHOLE The global action on climate change is out of sync. The world is rapidly moving deeper into a dangerous climate crisis; science is providing ample warnings of an imminent planetary emergency; while policy and the global economy moves, at best, in incremental steps. The recently finalised COP28 in Dubai is no exception.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
weforum.org | Johan Rockström
Planetary boundary health checks take place every six to seven years – which is insufficient in light of the speed and scale of critical changes to Earth systems. A new partnership announced at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos seeks to speed up the frequency and quality of these checks, helping decision-makers to respond more effectively to them.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
cbs17.com | Johan Rockström
EIN Presswire Jan 08, 2024, 12:16 PM ET The Green Accelerator at Davos 2024 DAVOS, SWITZERLAND, January 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The annual World Economic Forum in Davos is set to bring together global leaders, thinkers, and industry experts, with The Green Accelerator leading the charge. Opening its doors at 12:00, the event will commence with renowned environmental scientist Prof. Johan Rockström of PIK Impact Research, followed by distinguished economist Prof. Dr. Nouriel Roubini, CEO...
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
localsyr.com | Johan Rockström
High-Level Forum at Davos Unveils Transformative Initiatives & Collective Wisdom News provided by EIN Presswire Jan 08, 2024, 12:16 PM ET The Green Accelerator at Davos 2024 DAVOS, SWITZERLAND, January 8, 2024 / EINPresswire.com/ -- The annual World Economic Forum in Davos is set to bring together global leaders, thinkers, and industry experts, with The Green Accelerator leading the charge. Opening its doors at 12:00, the event will commence with renowned environmental scientist Prof. Johan...
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
ktla.com | Johan Rockström
The Green Accelerator at Davos 2024DAVOS, SWITZERLAND, January 8, 2024 / EINPresswire.com/ -- The annual World Economic Forum in Davos is set to bring together global leaders, thinkers, and industry experts, with The Green Accelerator leading the charge. Opening its doors at 12:00, the event will commence with renowned environmental scientist Prof. Johan Rockström of PIK Impact Research, followed by distinguished economist Prof.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
nature.com | Xuemei Bennink Bai |Syezlin Hasan |Anders Bjørn |Daniel Sampero Ospina |Jianguo Liu |Sarah E. Cornell | +14 more
AbstractOperating 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.
