Joanne Kauffman

TL;DR: Saito et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an innovative tools for global governance of sustainability, which differs from the traditional legal approach for addressing global problems, focusing on the adjustment of national legal systems to meet international agreements and compliance with international law.

TL;DR: This article provides a summary of the deliberations and highlights recommendations to advance this new science including creation of a global network of networks in sustainability science.

TL;DR: Kauffman et al. as discussed by the authors explored the need for and ways to promote greater integration and cooperation in fulfilling the sustainability science mandate, and pointed out that a higher level of knowledge integration and greater (tighter) cooperation between the generators and users of such knowledge are needed to overcome barriers to meeting these challenges.

TL;DR: The Montreal Protocol as discussed by the authors was widely praised for its reflection of unprecedented foresight in mandating preventive action on a global scale, but such praise may have been premature in light of more recent revelations that: (1) the rates of ozone depletion appear to be accelerating; and (2) the depletion seems to be spreading into the summer months over the north temperate zone of latitudes.

TL;DR: In this article , a consensus statement from the Regional Action on Climate Change Symposium warned that the Earth’s climatic, ecological, and human systems are converging towards a crisis that threatens to engulf global civilization within the lifetimes of children now living.