The Planetary Health Check report provides an assessment of the state of our planet. The report is based on the Planetary Boundaries -the nine processes that are known to regulate the stability, resilience and life-support unctions of our planet. The report concludes that seven out of nine Planetary Boundaries have been breached: Climate Change, Change in Biosphere Integrity, Land System Change, Freshwater Change, Modification of Biogeochemical Flows, Introduction of Novel Entities, and Ocean Acidification. All of these show increasing trends, suggesting further deterioration in the near future.
Planetary Health Check 2025: A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet
Author(s)
Boris Sakschewski, Levke Caesar, Lauren S. Andersen, Max Bechthold, Lotta Bergfeld, Arthur Beusen,Maik Billing, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Svetlana Botsyun, Donovan P. Dennis, Jonathan F. Donges, Xinyu Dou, Axel Eriksson, Ingo Fetzer, Dieter Gerten, Tiina Häyhä, Sophie Hebden, Tim Heckmann, Adrian Heilemann, Willem Huiskamp, Annika Jahnke, Jonas Kaiser, Niklas H. Kitzmann, Jonathan Krönke, Dana Kühnel, Nicole C. Laureanti, Chaohui Li, Zhu Liu, Sina Loriani, Josef Ludescher, Sabine Mathesius, Albert Norström, Friederike Otto, Anja Paolucci, Dimitry Pokhotelov, Kasra Rafiezadeh Shahi, Emmanuel Raju, Masoud Rostami, Sibyll Schaphoff, Christian Schmidt, Norman J. Steinert, Fabian Stenzel, Vili Virkki, Katrin Wendt-Potthoff, Nico Wunderling and Johan Rockström
Publication Date
2025
Publisher
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
DOI / URL
Resource Type
Think Tank (or University) Report
Systems Addressed
Climate • Earth System • Ecosystems
Resource Theme
Learning resource