Sustainable Development Goals and Planetary Boundaries

Betsan Martin, May 2018

In April Johan Rockström for the Swedish Resilience Institute visited NZ and brought new thinking from ‘planetary boundaries’ to sustainable development goals. Let’s speak of a Wedding Cake with land and forests, water and oceans, biodiversity and atmosphere as the base for the SDG’s, rather than the three interacting spheres of social, environmental and economy spheres. This is introduced here along with a few thoughts from the SDG Conference in Wellington, NZ.

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