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  1. Mar 2023
    1. Our concept of ESJ assumes fair sharing of responsibilities among different actors, ensuring that those who are most responsible and capable do the most. For example, the Earth Commission has developed principles for sharing responsibilities for cities and companie
      • Earth Commission has develop principles for sharing responsibilities for cities and companies.
      • Comment
        • This is implicitly a form of downscaling
    1. Yet few cities and companies currently have such targets.
      • Paraphrase
      • Few cities currently have science-based targets (SBT)
      • Only 22 of 500 top greenhouse gas emitting companies set targets in line with SBT (Bloomberg Terminal)
      • Only 110 of the top 200 cities with the highest emissions had "net zero" pledges aligned with Paris Agreement.
      • Numbers are lower or missing for biodversity or other ESBs.
      • Comment
      • Setting such SBTs for cities is in effect downscaling Planetary Boundaries.
      • Key Finding
        • This paper uses machine learning to overcome unavailable carbon footprints inventories of the Global South
        • which are usually hampered by:
          • lack of local urban emissions data,
          • reduced climate footprint, and
          • shortages in climate finance.
      • using these algorithms, the author estimates 24,110 cities' carbon footprints of the Global South

        • to provide a comprehensive analysis on a planetary scale,
        • while allocating responsibilities according to the cities' regions and sizes.
      • author

        • Mohammed Hachaichi
    1. Highlights•Downscaling seven of nine planetary boundaries indicators to the city scale-level.•Extended-Environmental Input-Output analysis is used to estimate cities’ footprints.•The Planetary Boundaries framework is a controlling tool for cities footprints.•City-level carbon footprint is higher than the national-level by 17%.
      • Highlights
        • Downscaling seven of nine = planetary boundaries indicators
          • to the city scale-level
          • for 62 major cities in the = Middle East North Africa (MENA) region
        • Extended-Environmental Input-Output analysis is used to estimate cities’ footprints.
        • The Planetary Boundaries framework is a controlling tool for cities footprints.
        • City-level carbon footprint is higher than the national-level by 17%.
      • Title
        • Downscaling the planetary boundaries (Pbs) framework to city scale-level: De-risking MENA region’s environment future
      • Author
        • Mohamed Hachaichi
  2. Dec 2022
    1. he concept of planetary boundariesprioritising scientific expertise and discussed primarily inacademic debates [14], and the doughnut commonlyappealing to policy-makers and practitioners at nationalor subnational scales, neither has the traction acrossspatial scales that has been achieved through the steerby the UN in the case of SDGs.

      !- downscaling : planetary boundaries and doughnut economics - neither has the traction as SDGs