Publications
2025
Publications by CLIFF
Giulia Gentile, Joyeeta Gupta
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
The scientific community has long identified the urgent need to phase out fossil fuels. Yet, fossil fuel companies have managed to avoid accountability…
Jiesper Tristan Strandsbjerg Pedersen, Carla Gomes, Patrick O’Rourke, Detlef van Vuuren, Joyeeta Gupta, Filipe Duarte Santos & Rob Swart
NPJ Climate Action
Scenarios play a pivotal role in linking climate science to policy action, informing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
Aljoscha Karg, Joyeeta Gupta,
Yang Chen
Energy Research & Social Science
The Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) – between G-7+ countries and South Africa (2021), Indonesia (2022), Viet Nam (2022), and Senegal…
Neo-colonialism and leaving fossil fuels underground: a discourse analysis of the potential German-Senegalese gas partnership
Luc van Vliet, Janina Herzog-Hawelka, Clara McDonnell
Energy Research & Social Science
This paper explores the contested discourses surrounding a potential gas partnership between Germany and Senegal, highlighting the…
Climate Injustices Have Multiplied over Time: The Need for Climate System Justice
Joyeeta Gupta, Yang Chen, Clara McDonnell, Augusto Heras, Janina Herzog-Hawelka, Frank de Morrée, Opal Morales Asencio
Progress in Development Studies
This article asks: How have climate injustices accumulated in climate negotiations, and how can a climate system justice approach be developed? It concludes that, first, without a just approach…
Reconciling the right to develop with leaving fossil fuels underground in the Global South
Augusto Heras, Crelis F. Rammelt, Joyeeta Gupta
Environmental Science & Policy
To address climate change, supply-side action and policy are urgently needed for leaving fossil fuels underground. Low- and Middle-Income…
Data injustice and attribution of drought events: implications for global climate policy
Paola Fezzigna, Marthe Wens, Joyeeta Gupta, Paolo Scussolini
Climate Policy
Extreme event attribution (EEA) studies address the question of the role of anthropogenic climate change in the occurrence of extreme weather…
North-south relations, responsibilities, and agendas in Earth System Governance: Have these changed in the Anthropocene?
Augusto Heras, Joyeeta Gupta
Earth System Governance
On the G77’s 60th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the Declaration for a New International Economic Order, this paper explores…
Thresholds of significant harm at global level: The journey of the Earth Commission
Joyeeta Gupta, Jesse F. Abrams, David Armstrong McKay, Xuemei Bai, Kristi L. Ebi, Paola Fezzigna, Giuliana Gentile, Lauren Gifford, Syezlin Hasan, Lisa Jacobson, Aljoscha Karg, Steven Lade, Tim Lenton, Diana Liverman, Awaz Mohamed, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, David Obura, Johan Rockström, Ben Stewart-Koster, Detlef van VuurenPeter Verburg, Raimon C. Ylla-Català, Caroline Zimm
Earth System Governance
The planetary boundary framework proposes ‘safe’ boundaries, but these boundaries are not necessarily ‘just’. Hence, we ask: How has the…
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Water security reframed using Water System Justice and Earth system boundaries, foundations, and corridor
Joyeeta Gupta, Hilmer J. Bosch, Luc van Vliet
Frontiers in Water
In the Anthropocene, when human activity, including the overuse and over-pollution of water, is leading to the destabilization of the global…
Connecting planetary boundaries and planetary health: a resilient and stable Earth system is crucial for human health
Samuel S. Myers, Oskar Masztalerz, Samantha Ahdoot, Sabine Gabrysch, Joyeeta Gupta, Andy Haines, Henrika Kleineberg-Massuthe, Nathalie J. Lambrecht, Philip J. Landrigan, Jemilah Mahmood, Lisa M. Pörtner, Jason Rohr, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, Amanda S. Wendt, Britt Wray, Johan Rockström
The Lancet
Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience of the Earth system…
Charting a transformational course toward a safe and just future: the Earth Commission’s contribution
Johan Rockström, Fatima Denton, Albert V. Norstrom, Jesse F Abrams, Lubna Alam, David I. Armstrong McKay, Xuemei Bai, Govindasamy Bala, Chris A. Boulton, Wendy Broadgate, Stuart Bunn, Joshua E Buxton, Juan Cardenas, Raimon C. Ylla-Català, Fabrice Declerck, Natalie Davis, Donovan Dennis, Miriam L. Diamond, Carl Folke, Charlotte Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, Georgia Graells, Joyeeta Gupta, Syezlin Hasan, Lisa Jacobson, Steven J. Lade, Timothy M. Lenton, Sina Loriani, Cornelia Ludwig, Pablo A Marquet, Qondi Moyo, Aditi Mukherji, Nebjosa Nakicenovic, David Obura, Oki Taikan, Daniel Ospina, Maria Fernanda Peña, Laura Pereira, Keywan Riahi, Maria del Mar Rojas, Anindita Sarkar, Anna Shalin, Ben Stewart-Koster, Bo Su, Rashid Sumaila, Tharammal Thejna, Luc van Vliet, Detlef vanVuuren, Peter H. Verburg, Zhanyun Wang, Ricarda Winkelmann, Cunde Xiao, Caroline Zimm
Earth’s Future
Humans are now operating well outside the planetary conditions that enabled stable and equitable development. The situation is urgent…
Conceptualizing Water System Justice in the Anthropocene
Joyeeta Gupta, Hilmer J. Bosch, Andrea B. Müller, Luc van Vliet
WIREs Water
Given the growing demand for water justice, the systemic nature of the water problem, the fragmented water governance and disparate…
Prioritising the purpose: a Water System Justice framework for water utilities
Klaas Schwartz; Joyeeta Gupta; Mariana Mazzucato; Hilmer J. Bosch; Luc William van Vliet
Water Policy
Water utilities provide water, sewerage and sanitation services. Yet, they have failed worldwide to provide safely managed water services to at…
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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.
Grant agreement: No. 101020082
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