Publications
2024
Publications by CLIFF
Supply-side climate policy and fossil fuels in developing countries: a neo-Gramscian perspective
Augusto Heras
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
This article examines the perspectives of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) on climate change mitigation and fossil fuel supply within…
Applying earth system justice to phase out fossil fuels: learning from the injustice of adopting 1.5 °C over 1 °C
Joyeeta Gupta, Yang Chen, David I. Armstrong Mckay, Paola Fezzigna, Giuliana Gentile, Aljoscha Karg, Luc van Vliet, Steven J. Lade & Lisa Jacobson
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
The Paris Agreement has seen the adoption of a 1.5° to 2 °C climate target, based on the belief that climate change becomes ‘dangerous’ above…
Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground: Actors, Arguments and Approaches in the Global South and Global North
Joyeeta Gupta, Barbara Hogenboom, Arthur Rempel, Malin Olofsson
How can the world move away from a century-old global system based on fossil fuels? And how can societies in the Global South and Global North…
The split ladder of participation: A literature review and dynamic path forward
Margot Hurlbert, Joyeeta Gupta
Environmental Science & Policy
Participation of people in decision making and tackling complex problems where there is lack of consensus on the science and relevant values…
Transport within earth system boundaries
Joyeeta Gupta, Yang Chen, Crelis Rammelt
NPJ Sustainable Mobility and Transport
Achieving a socially and environmentally sustainable mobility and transport system necessitates a multifaceted approach that…
The split ladder of policy problems, participation, and politicization: constitutional water change in Ecuador and Chile
Margot Hurlbert, Joyeeta Gupta
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
There is debate about whether complex problems should be addressed technocratically or whether they should be politicized. While many tend…
A just world on a safe planet: Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations
Joyeeta Gupta, Xuemei Bai, Diana M. Liverman, Johan Rockström, Dahe Qin, Ben Stewart-Koster, Juan C. Rocha, Lisa Jacobson, Jesse F. Abrams, Lauren S. Andersen, David I. Armstrong McKay, Govindasamy Bala, Stuart E. Bunn, Daniel Ciobanu, Fabrice DeClerck, Kristie L. Ebi, Lauren Gifford, Christopher Gordon, Syezlin Hasan, Norichika Kanie, Giulia Gentile
The Lancet Planetary Health
The health of the planet and its people are at risk. The deterioration of the global commons—ie, the natural systems that support life on Earth…
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace
Joyeeta Gupta, Klaudia Prodani, Xuemei Bai, Lauren Gifford, Tim M. Lenton, Ilona Otto, Laura Pereira, Crelis Rammelt, Joeri Scholtens, Joan David Tàbara
Environmental Politics
The literature on planetary and Earth system boundaries calls on humans to live within those boundaries. Sharing such limited ecospace raises…
Fossil fuels, stranded assets, and the energy transition in the Global South: A systematic literature review
Augusto Heras, Joyeeta Gupta
WIREs Climate Change
Complying with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change requires leaving fossil fuels underground (LFFU), which raises justice issues regarding the…
Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground: Actors, Arguments and Approaches in the Global South and Global North
Joyeeta Gupta, Barbara Hogenboom, Arthur Rempel, Malin Olofsson
How can the world move away from a century-old global system based on fossil fuels? And how can societies in the Global South and Global North…
Reply to: Concerns regarding proposed groundwater Earth system boundary
S. E. Bunn, B. Stewart-Koster, C. Ndehedehe, C. Gordon, J. Rockström, J. Gupta, D. Qin & S. J. Lade
Nature
Groundwater is widely used for domestic and agricultural purposes, but is subject to increasing risks from overexploitation. Responding to this…
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The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene
Johan Rockström, Louis Kotzé, Svetlana Milutinović, Frank Biermann, Victor Brovkin, Jonathan Donges, Jonas Ebbesson, Duncan French, Joyeeta Gupta, Rakhyun Kim, Timothy Lenton, Dominic Lenzi, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Barbara Neumann, Fabian Schuppert, Ricarda Winkelmann, Klaus Bosselmann, Carl Folke, Wolfgang Lucht, David Schlosberg, Katherine Richardson, Will Steffen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The Anthropocene signifies the start of a no-analogue trajectory of the Earth system that is fundamentally different from the Holocene. This…
Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses
Xuemei Bai, Syezlin Hasan, Lauren Seaby Andersen, Anders Bjørn, Şiir Kilkiş, Daniel Ospina, Jianguo Liu, Sarah E. Cornell, Oscar Sabag Muñoz, Ariane de Bremond, Beatrice Crona, Fabrice DeClerck, Joyeeta Gupta, Holger Hoff, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, David Obura, Gail Whiteman, Wendy Broadgate, Steven J. Lade, Juan Rocha, Johan Rockström, Ben Stewart-Koster, Detlef van Vuuren, Caroline Zimm
Nature Sustainability
Operating within safe and just Earth system boundaries requires mobilizing key actors across scale to set targets and take actions accordingly…
Governing for a safe and just future with science-based targets: opportunities and limitations
Lauren Gifford, Diana Liverman, Joyeeta Gupta, Lisa Jacobson
Climate and Development
This paper reflects on the work of the Earth Commission and the Global Commons Alliance to include climate and environmental justice in…
Pension funds and fossil fuel phase-out: historical developments and limitations of pension climate strategies
Clara McDonnell
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Despite the decades of international climate negotiations and several landmark agreements, global efforts to date to restrict fossil fuel…
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The CLIFF project was financed by the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
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