Sustainability for Planetary Commons Project
= "aims to develop and promote a positive and compelling vision for a transformed global climate governance"
URL = https://en.taejaefci.org/
Description
"The Taejae Future Consensus Institute’s Sustainability for Planetary Commons Project (SPCP) aims to develop and promote a positive and compelling vision for a transformed global climate governance that results addressing the root causes of Earth system change with transformations to sustainable and just societies.
A ‘polycentric’ architecture that would distribute responsibilities for prevention and impact governance across multiple sites and scales of action, and attend to linkages, coordination and effective information flows between different actors and institutions, is the appropriate model for governance (Global Tipping Points Report, 2023).
To achieve this, the feasible and effective initiatives are needed in three categories:
1) [Global-scale] designing the governance of planetary commons,
2) [Local-scale] downscaling and democratization of planetary commons, and
3) [Private sector] restructuring of industries in sustainability.
Characteristics
Questions addressed by the SPCP are:
Variable 1: Institutionalization of the planetary commons
o What are the key components that should be considered when designing the governance of planetary commons and Earth System Tipping Points (ESTPs)?
Critical elements of the planetary commons concern all major Earth system spheres (e.g., atmosphere, oceans, land, and cryosphere) with which the biosphere (humans included) interact. If so, how?
o How can the planetary boundaries be institutionalized?
Variable 2: Planetary nexus governance
o What are the available options to reform the governance at the global-scale?
Existing institutions
Can and should the position of UNEP be upgraded to a ‘World Environment Organization’ to adopt governance of planetary commons?
Can and should the UN trusteeship council be upgraded?
How can coalitions such as “Climate Club” be utilized to adopt planetary nexus governance framework?
New Initiatives
What are the action plans to create a supranational organization which can enforce non-negotiable legally binding mechanisms to the member states?
What is the prospect of adopting the ‘planetary integrity’ as the foundational principle of the organization? (e.g. global environmental constitution: the world charter for nature, the Earth Charter and the IUCN Draft International Convenant on Environment and Development)
o Among these options, which is the most effective and feasible solution? What action plans are needed to implement this solution into a reality?"