As the world faces an escalating planetary crisis, a new paper published today in Nature offers something we don’t often hear - hope.
As the world faces an escalating planetary crisis, a new paper published today in Nature offers something we don’t often hear - hope. Rather than focussing on what we’re doing wrong, the paper proposes a bold new way forward; a global framework that measures how well people and nature are thriving together.
The paper, titled 'An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures', is the result of a international collaboration led by the United Nations Development Programme and researchers including Oxford University’s Professor Yadvinder Malhi and Dr Samira Barzin from the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, Professor Peter Frankopan, Dr Molly Grace, and Oxford Martin School Fellows Professor Erle Ellis, Professor Sandra Diaz, and Dr Hannah Ritchie.
The team calls for the creation of a 'Nature Relationship Index' to sit alongside the Human Development Index (HDI). The aim is to track how countries are improving human relationships with the rest of life on Earth, including a thriving and accessible nature, using natural resources responsibly, and protecting ecosystems – turning these into measurable goals for progress.
Read more at: University of Oxford
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