Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality
dc.contributor.author | Rammelt, CF | |
dc.contributor.author | Gupta, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Liverman, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Scholtens, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Ciobanu, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Abrams, JF | |
dc.contributor.author | Bai, X | |
dc.contributor.author | Gifford, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Gordon, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Hurlbert, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Inoue, CYA | |
dc.contributor.author | Jacobson, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Lade, SJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Lenton, TM | |
dc.contributor.author | McKay, DIA | |
dc.contributor.author | Nakicenovic, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Okereke, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Otto, IM | |
dc.contributor.author | Pereira, LM | |
dc.contributor.author | Prodani, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Rockström, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Stewart-Koster, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Verburg, PH | |
dc.contributor.author | Zimm, C | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-30T11:31:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-11-10 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-11-30T10:45:28Z | |
dc.description.abstract | The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. However, the magnitude of the environmental burden that would arise from meeting the needs of the poorest is under debate—especially when compared to much larger burdens from the rich. We show that the ‘Great Acceleration’ of human impacts was characterized by a ‘Great Inequality’ in using and damaging the environment. We then operationalize ‘just access’ to minimum energy, water, food and infrastructure. We show that achieving just access in 2018, with existing inequalities, technologies and behaviours, would have produced 2–26% additional impacts on the Earth’s natural systems of climate, water, land and nutrients—thus further crossing planetary boundaries. These hypothetical impacts, caused by about a third of humanity, equalled those caused by the wealthiest 1–4%. Technological and behavioural changes thus far, while important, did not deliver just access within a stable Earth system. Achieving these goals therefore calls for a radical redistribution of resources. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Oak Foundation | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | MAVA | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Porticus | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Herlin Foundation | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Global Environment Facility | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 10 November 2022 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00995-5 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/131904 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-0411-8519 (Abrams, Jesse F) | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-6725-7498 (Lenton, Timothy M) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Environmental impact | en_GB |
dc.subject | Ethics | en_GB |
dc.subject | Society | en_GB |
dc.subject | Sustainability | en_GB |
dc.title | Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-11-30T11:31:03Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2398-9629 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: The data used and calculations performed in this study are published in the Supplementary Data. | |
dc.identifier.journal | Nature Sustainability | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nature Sustainability | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-09-27 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-11-10 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-11-30T11:25:53Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-11-30T11:31:06Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-11-10 |
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