Prosperity within Planetary Boundaries with Johan Rockström
Launch of the International Panel on Earth System Governance
On Tuesday 24 March, Prof. Johan Rockström, one of the world’s leading thinkers on sustainability and planetary limits, will give a keynote lecture at Utrecht University titled “Prosperity within Planetary Boundaries”. In this lecture he explores how societies can thrive while staying within the Earth’s ecological boundaries.
This event marks the launch of the International Panel on Earth System Governance (IPESG), which will be hosted at Utrecht University. This new panel will conduct the first-ever, large-scale, science-based assessment of the state of knowledge on earth system governance.
This event is hosted by the Copernicus Institute on Sustainable Development, in cooperation with the International Panel on Earth System Governance, the Global Challenges Foundation, the Frontiers Research Foundation, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Programme
18:15-18:30: Walk-in
18:30-19:30: Lecture
Johan Rockström is an internationally recognised scientist on global sustainability and Earth resilience. He led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. He is deeply involved in research on the future trajectory of the Anthropocene and tipping points in the Earth system. Professor Rockström is a driving force behind myriad international scientific initiatives, including the Earth Commission and the Planetary Boundaries Science Initiative, as well as actively consulting on global sustainability issues for national and multilateral government organisations and business networks. He is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam.
Organisers
The Copernicus Institute on Sustainable Development is part of Utrecht University’s Faculty of Geosciences. It occupies a unique position in the University as an interdisciplinary natural/social sciences department and is the only department at Utrecht University that solely focuses on sustainability research.
The International Panel on Earth System Governance (IPESG) brings together a global community of social science and interdisciplinary researchers to better understand how societies can respond to planetary challenges. Through a large-scale scientific assessment, IPESG aims to make knowledge on earth system governance more accessible and useful for decision-making.
- Start date and time
- End date and time
- Location
- Aula of Utrecht University Hall (Domplein 29, 3512 JE Utrecht)
- Registration
The event is fully booked, but you can sign up for the waiting list here.
The event will be livestreamed. You can join the livestream using the link below.
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