Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses

2024-02-01
Bai, Xuemei
Hasan, Syezlin
Andersen, Lauren Seaby
Bjørn, Anders
Kılkış, Şiir
Ospina, Daniel
Liu, Jianguo
Cornell, Sarah E.
Sabag Muñoz, Oscar
de Bremond, Ariane
Crona, Beatrice
DeClerck, Fabrice
Gupta, Joyeeta
Hoff, Holger
Nakicenovic, Nebojsa
Obura, David
Whiteman, Gail
Broadgate, Wendy
Lade, Steven J.
Rocha, Juan
Rockström, Johan
Stewart-Koster, Ben
van Vuuren, Detlef
Zimm, Caroline
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.
Nature Sustainability
Citation Formats
X. Bai et al., “Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses,” Nature Sustainability, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 108–119, 2024, Accessed: 00, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85181440211&origin=inward.