Week 6 – Professor Johan Rockström

Readings:

Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockström, J., Cornell, S. E., Fetzer, I., Bennett, E. M., … & Folke, C. (2015). Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science, 347(6223), 1259855.

Rockström, J. (2016). “Planetary Boundaries and a New Development Paradigm,” The SDG Academy.

Rockström, J. (2010). “Let the environment guide our development,” TED Talk.

Sachs, J., & Tubiana, L. (2014). Pathways to Deep Decarbonization: Executive Summary (E. Guerin, C. Mas, & H. Waisman, eds.). SDSN & IDDRI.

IPCC. (2014). Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Summary for Policy Makers  (Edenhofer, O., R. Pichs-Madruga, Y. Sokona, E. Farahani, S. Kadner, K. Seyboth, A. Adler, I. Baum, S. Brunner, P. Eickemeier, B. Kriemann, J. Savolainen, S. Schlömer, C. von Stechow, T. Zwickel and J.C. Minx, eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

Further reading:

Rockström, J. (2016). Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities, SDG Academy.