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	4 Jan 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01255-w
Publication status	Published - Feb 2024

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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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