Environmental and Sustainability Science

Interconnected Disaster Risks: Turning Over a New Leaf, United Nations University, May 2025

Young Person’s Guide To Systems Change, The Club of Rome, 29 March 2025

Open Science, blog by Arthur Dahl, 3 March 2025

Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries, Giorgos Kalis et al., summary by Arthur Dahl, January 2025

Transforming Civilisation, The Club of Rome, based on a blog by Nafeez Ahmed, 9 January 2025

Reflections on Information, blog by Arthur Dahl, 16 January 2025

Land Degradation Threatens Food Supplies, UNCCD COP16, 15 December 2024

Drylands now make up 40% of land on Earth, The Guardian, 9 December 2024

Harnessing science to tackle global crises, The Fifth Element, 22 October 2024

Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, The Guardian, Damian Carrington, 8 October 2024

Nature and Health, blog by Arthur Dahl based on New Scientist 31 August 2024

Global Foresight Report 2024, United Nations Environment Programme and International Science Council, 15 July 2024

The Rise of Eco-anxiety, Nature 10 April 2024

A Systems View of Justice, Arthur Dahl, Presentation at the Justice Conference, 29 March 2024

Science, Innovation and Digital Technology, Policy Brief, background for Chapter 3, People's Pact for the Future, Arthur Lyon Dahl and Soon-Young Yoon, 22 March 2024

Global Catastrophic Risks Report 2024, Global Challenges Foundation, 16 February 2024

The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory, 27 October 2023

Human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire branches of the tree of life, 18 September 2023

September smashes monthly temperature record, World Meteorological Organization, 7 October 2023

Another planetary boundary: biomass, blog by Arthur Lyon Dahl, 3 October 2023

Coral Reefs in Danger, based on a report by IEF member Austin Bowden-Kerby in Fiji, 23 September 2023

Freshwater Use: another planetary boundary overshot, 15 September 2023

Microbial extinction is happening, Arthur Lyon Dahl's blog 8 May-16 July 2023

Record-breaking global temperatures, updated 11 July 2023

A just world on a safe planet: First study quantifying Earth System Boundaries, Earth Commission Report, 31 May 2023

The unfolding food crisis, blog by Arthur Lyon Dahl, 26 April 2023

The latest on Climate Change, IPCC6 Synthesis Report Headline Statements, 23 March 2023

Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, The Guardian, 17 March 2023

Floods and droughts are intensifying, Nature Water, 13 March 2023

The other energy crisis, Arthur Dahl, updated 22 February 2023

Risks from sea level rise, UN Security Council debate, 14 February 2023

Regenerative Agriculture, Earth4All paper, Club of Rome 2023

Why a space sunshade isn't such a bright idea, Letter from IEF President Arthur Dahl in New Scientist 4 February 2023

Planned science-policy panel on chemicals, wastes and pollution, UNEA Open-ended Working Group, 30 January-2 February 2023

Global Biodiversity Framework Adopted, Convention on Biological Diversity, COP 15, Montreal, Canada, 18 December 2022

Earth for All: A survival guide for humanity, Book review by Arthur Lyon Dahl, 5 December 2022

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022, 26 October 2022

Risk of passing multiple climate tipping points, International Science Council, 9 September 2022

Food Loss and Waste, International Day of Awareness on Food Loss and Waste, 29 September 2022

Green nature is good for you, blue is better, blog by Arthur Dahl on health benefits of nature, 15 August 2022

Biodiversity Values Assessment, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), 1 August 2022

Climate Tipping Points Warning, United in Science, Multi-agency climate science report, 13 September 2022

IPBES Values Assessment - Multiple values of nature and its benefits, report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), 11 July 2022

Climate Change 2022 - Mitigation of Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers, IPCC, 4 April 2022

Legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution, UN Environment Assembly, 2 March 2022

Climate Change 2022 - Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II, 27 February 2022

Only One Earth Science, website with graphics, 11 February 2022

Planetary Boundary for Pollutants, Including Plastics, Exceeded, UNEP Geneva Environment Network, 24 January 2022

Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity Damian Carrington, Environment editor, The Guardian, 18 January 2022

Global Status of Coral Reefs, Report on Status of Coral Reefs of the World 2020, launched by Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, 5 October 2021

Science, Truth and Expert Advice, Universal House of Justice, Department of the Secretariat, to an individual, 11 February 2021

Making Peace with Nature, UNEP Synthesis Report, February 2021

World Scientist's Warning of a Climate Emergency, Summary and commentary by Arthur Dahl, 22 August 2021

Where is Climate Change Taking Us?, IPCC 6th Assessment Report, The Physical Science Base, released 9 August 2021

Well-being in Vanuatu, Vanuatu National Statistics Office issues new report, 8 July 2021

Our Planet, Our Future, Nobel Laureates Urgent Call for Action, 29 April 2021

Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020, World Bank, 4 April 2021

Active Coral Restoration: Techniques for a Changing Planet New book including work of Austin Bowden-Kerby, 3 April 2021

Ecosystem Accounting Takes Off, United Nations Statistical Commission, 1-5 March 2021

Scientists' Warnings: Affluence, Alliance of World Scientists, 6 December 2020

Thank God for Science , webinar by IEF member Dr. Ashiyan Rahmani, 25 October 2020

Complex Systems Science and Global Challenges, Report on a colloquium in Stockholm, Sweden, 7-9 December 2019

UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2019, 28 November 2019

Science and Global Governance, Arthur Dahl, 19 November 2019

Paper by IEF members on sustainable energy governance, IEF members, Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Nigel Jolands and Lawrence Staudt, published their paper, 18 November 2012

Planet Under Pressure 2012 scientific conference with IEF participation, London, England, 26-29 March 2012