UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Official UN sustainability policy framework
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drawdown.org
Drawdown.org is a hub of evidence-based climate solutions from Project Drawdown. It features profiles and data on 100+ solutions across sectors (energy, land, food, buildings, and more), plus interactive tools, case studies, and policy guidance to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming - A book resource
wri.org
World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global environmental policy research organization that offers data-driven analysis, reports, and interactive tools on climate, energy, forests, water, and sustainable development to inform policy and business decisions.
ipcc.ch
Official site of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, publishing authoritative climate science assessments and policy-relevant summaries. It hosts Assessment Reports and Working Group contributions, Summaries for Policymakers, methodological guidance, data resources, and news.
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Planetary boundaries and policy insights
Introduction to Sustainability
This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history. This subject is of vital importance, seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet. As sustainability is a cross-disciplinary field of study, this foundation requires intellectual breadth: as I describe it in the class text, understanding our motivations requires the humanities, measuring the challenges of sustainability requires knowledge of the sciences (both natural and social), and building solutions requires technical insight into systems (such as provided by engineering, planning, and management).