On the occasion of the Art Day, here are the innovative solutions proposed by the Planet Prize Frontiers in order not to exceed the limits of endurance of the Earth.
The possible solutions to face the climatic crisis and the other “non -return points” planetary are always welcome, but they are particularly in the day of the earth (Earth Day), which on April 22, 2025 marks its 55th edition.
Today the Planet Prize Frontiersan important scientific initiative that aims to “face the planetary crisis directly, mobilizing scientists engaged in innovative research, with the greatest potential to stabilize the planet’s ecosystem” has appointed 19 winners: scientists who have had Innovative and applicable ideas in reality To protect the health of the earth and those who live there.
Together we can. The winners were chosen from thousands of researchers and scientists from all over the world and in different stages of their academic career, united by having published scientific articles on revolutionary and easily scalable solutions (adaptable to the context) to prevent the so -called Limits or planetary borders (Planetary Boundaries), that is, the safe operating space within which humanity can act without irreversible the balance of the earth irreversible.
To preside over the jury made up of a hundred independent experts is Johan Rockström, a Swedish ecologist recognized internationally for his works on the sustainability of the planet, which in 2009 first and together with another 28 scientists, developed the concept of planetary borders.
No later than this line. Based on the most updated version of the framework of planetary limitsthe dimensions that we should not cross are: climate change, “new entities” or the introduction of new chemicals in the environment, thinning of the stratospheric ozone, airpower from aerosol, acidification of the oceans, alteration of the biodeochemical flows of nitrogen and phosphorus, forest degradation and other changes in use of soil, changes of sweet water, loss of loss of sweet water, loss of loss of water, biodiversity. Six of these borders would have already been overcome.
science at the service of life. For example, the innovative rewarded solutions are concentrated on ways to mitigate the climatic crisis, support global public health and the resilience of the earth, seize carbon, improve the conservation of species and replenish fish reserves, diversify agriculture and breeding, anticipate the most extreme and destructive effects of climate change.
Foreste, Atolls, cities in Zero Emissions. A group led by Giovanni Forzieri, researcher of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Florence, was awarded for a study that shows that improving the heterogeneity of ecosystems reduces the climatic risks for European forests; A research by the Kth Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, for identifying nature -based solutions and feasible in European cities that intervening in the residential, transport and industrial sectors could reduce urban carbon emissions up to 25%.
The recognition then went to a work of the University of Auckland, in New Zealand, which proposes ways to protect and restore natural geophysical processes of growth of the atolls through local conservation actions, so as to make them more resilient to the raising of the sea level. The complete list of rewarded articles can be consulted on the competition website.
It can be done! “The narration of the future of the Atolls in the science of planetary borders does not speak of an inevitable loss, but rather of adaptation skills, lasting resilience and strengthening of their local management” explains Sebastian Steibl, of the New Zealand team rewarded for studies on the insular communities.
A comment that summarizes the idea of the saving utility of scientific research well and that goes perfectly with the theme “Our Power, Our Planet” from the Earth day 2025. Focused both on the need to triple the global generation of renewable energy by 2030, and on the concept and, together, combining our voices, we really have the power to change the world.
