Planetary Politics: From global to national boundaries

The planetary boundaries framework is increasingly used as a baseline for national policy making. Here, we examine insights from ten studies that apply and downscale the planetary boundaries from global to national levels.

So far, these downscaling efforts have been used to set national environmental targets and budgets, and for assessing environmental footprints with two main challenges: a) translating the global biophysical indicators into usable national ones, and b) choosing the allocation principle for determining national shares of global responsibility. Future work applying the framework in a national context should move beyond target setting and national environmental budgets, and instead focus on the interaction between boundaries for a more coherent policymaking.

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