Justice & Paix

Un des plus importants climatologues européens, Johan Rockström, a confirmé que le réchauffement s’accélère et que ses effets sont plus graves que prévu. Nous pourrions atteindre les 2°C dans 20 ans.

Les spécialistes du système terrestre et du climat commencent à s'inquiéter sérieusement. La planète change plus rapidement que prévu. Bien que nous ayons tiré la sonnette d'alarme pendant des années, nous constatons aujourd'hui que la planète se trouve en fait dans une situation où les risques sont sous-estimés. Des changements brutaux se produisent d'une manière qui dépasse largement les attentes réalistes de la science.

We're nearly halfway through the 2020s, dubbed the most decisive decade for action on climate change. Where exactly do things stand? Climate impact scholar Johan Rockström offers the most up-to-date scientific assessment of the state of the planet and explains what must be done to preserve Earth's resilience to human pressure.

The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably linked1–3, yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they are often treated independently4,5. Here, we use modelling and literature assessment to quantify safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for climate, the biosphere, water and nutrient cycles, and aerosols at global and subglobal scales. We propose ESBs for maintaining the resilience and stability of the Earth system (safe ESBs) and minimizing exposure to significant harm to humans from Earth system change (a necessary but not sufficient condition for justice)4. The stricter of the safe or just boundaries sets the integrated safe and just ESB. Our findings show that justice considerations constrain the integrated ESBs more than safety considerations for climate and atmospheric aerosol loading. Seven of eight globally quantified safe and just ESBs and at least two regional safe and just ESBs in over half of global land area are alrea