Ecological ceiling

For humanity to continue to prosperous we need to stay within our Ecological Ceiling. The 9 planetary boundaries we must not overshoot are described by Rockstrom et al. in a seminal publication in the journal Nature following research by the Stockholm Resilience Centre:

  • Climate change
  • Ocean acidification
  • Chemical pollution
  • Nitrogen & phosphorus loading
  • Freshwater withdrawals
  • Land conversion
  • Rate of Biodiversity loss
  • Air pollution
  • Ozon layer depletion