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Why countries need to shift what their citizens eat, and what the optimum diet for our planet might be. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
‘Green water’ is essential for healthy soils and a benign climate, but it’s under threat.
For the first time, we calculated Australia’s share of planetary environmental boundaries and found we’ve shot past three already.
A global treaty on plastic pollution must incentivize a take-make-reuse waste management system and include quantitative targets based on geography-specific emissions.
The production and release of synthetic chemicals worldwide is destabilising the Earth system.
Humanity’s biggest challenges are not technical, but social, economic, political and behavioural. Effective actions are still possible to stabilise the climate and the planet, but must be taken now.
Our species has far exceeded its fair share of the planetary bounty, and Brown is right to call for the global population to peak.
Reducing our intake of discretionary foods such as cakes, biscuits, pizza and hot chips is the best way we can make our diets more sustainable.
COVID-19 has brought to the fore the interdependency of business and society. It’s time for amendments to the social contract that underlies societal support for business.
Ecosystem deterioration, along with climate change, is now becoming a controversial political question.
The first step is admitting we have a problem, but what should come next to protect the planet?
You could take the bus to work, or eat less meat. But how do you know if your efforts are making a difference? A new approach aims to break global environmental budgets down into digestible chunks.
New research finds a sustainable food system is possible but will require huge global changes.
No country manages to balance sustainability with meeting basic human needs – but Vietnam comes closest.
You may have seen reports that humans use more resources than the Earth can produce – but, logically, how is that possible? A bathtub can help explain.
The Conversation organised a public question-and-answer session on Reddit in which James Dyke, a lecturer in Complex System Simulation, discussed planetary boundaries and whether global industrialised…
Do the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Club of Rome deserve a reputation as modern Chicken Littles who claimed repeatedly that the sky is falling? According to Hugh Morgan - former…
In a paper published today in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Barry Brook and colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, Professor Brook outlines the paper’s…
On the wall along the massive entrance hall to the Rio+20 Sustainable Development conference venue, there was a painting of an African landscape with the simple words “Keep the oil in the soil and the…
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Senior Researcher, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, University of Oxford
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Honorary Professor, Australian National University
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ARC Australian Laureate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Chief Research Scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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PhD candidate, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Leader, Complex Systems Science, CSIRO
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Professor of Global Change Science at University of Leeds and, UCL
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Affiliate Full Professor, University of Washington; Research Associate, African Climate and Development Initiative and FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town; CEO, Stable Planet Alliance, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
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Professor, University of Cape Town
