The proposed concept of “planetary boundaries” lays the groundwork for shifting our approach to governance and management, away from the essentially sectoral analyses of limits to growth aimed at minimizing negative externalities, toward the estimation of the safe space for human development.

Learning objectives:

Summarize the human-induced changes of global ecology, including the risks of surpassing thresholds defined as planetary boundaries.
Reflecting on students´ beliefs, ideas and suggestions around the planetary boundaries.
Understand and discuss the role of business sector and industry to protect the Earth (this will includes presenting the EU taxonomy and the European Green Deal).

In this three-days workshop, the students will be introduced to the concept of planetary boundaries and will get knowledge about the 9 boundaries (their importance, our limitation and how we should work in order to avoid crossing the different boundaries). The students will have the second day of the workshop to reflect on their beliefs. The role of the business sector to avoid crossing the boundaries will be covered on the third day of the workshop.

Reading material:

Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockström, J., Cornell, S. E., Fetzer, I., Bennett, E. M., … & Sörlin, S. (2015). Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. science, 347(6223), 1259855 (9p).
O’Neill, D. W., Fanning, A. L., Lamb, W. F., & Steinberger, J. K. (2018). A good life for all within planetary boundaries. Nature sustainability, 1(2), 88-95 (7p).

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