User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/A timeline of the Planetary Emergency

This is a timeline of events related to the Planetary Emergency.

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2006

 * American politician, businessman, and environmentalist, Al Gore, former vice president of the United States published his book entitled An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It.


 * 21 November Gore's documentary film An Inconvenient Truth was released.

2010s

 * 2010 An article entitled "Planetary Emergency" in Monthly Review said that humanity was facing a crisis in long-term survival as a result of economic stagnation and upheaval as well as worsening global environmental conditions. See John Bellamy Foster
 * 2011 The 43rd session of the International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies took place. See Kardashev scale
 * December 2016 The Darebin City Council in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, was the first to make a climate emergency declaration.


 * July 2018 Ninety people died in the province of Quebec during a significant heat wave.


 * 2018 The Club of Rome called for greater climate change action in their Planetary Emergency Plan which proposed ten public policy action points to respond to limit global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius Global catastrophic risk. Further, in 2019, the Club published the more comprehensive Planetary Emergency Plan. See Global catastrophic risk.


 * February 2019 Starting in 2019, hundreds of city councils developed climate emergency declarations.

2020

 * 2020 was the fifth anniversary of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals launch and signing or the Paris Climate Agreement.


 * January 2020 The World Economic Forum (WEF) referred to the Club of Rome 2018 reports in their January 2020 planetary emergency plan, "It's time to emerge from our planetary emergency".  . See also Sandrine Dixson-Declève


 * February 2020 The Club of Rome and Potdam Institute report said that "This is a Planetary Emergency. The definition of an emergency is a dangerous event requiring immediate action to reduce risk of potentially catastrophic results. The impacts of climate change and ecological destruction are more severe and are manifesting themselves earlier than many scientific predictions in previous decades had foreseen...the definition of an emergency is a dangerous event requiring immediate action to reduce risk of potentially catastrophic results. The impacts of climate change and ecological destruction are more severe and are manifesting themselves earlier than many scientific predictions in previous decades had foreseen."

2022

 * January 2022 Over fifty Nobel Prize laureates, the presidents of several of the most important Academies of Sciences, a number of leading intellectuals, political and NGO leaders, and some celebrities signed the Global Peace Dividend. This initiative is organized by physicists Carlo Rovelli and Matteo Smerlak, who have co-authored opinion pieces


 * In their 2022 non-fiction book entitled Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn, described regenerative design principles to respond to the planetary crisis.

2023

 * By 25 January 2023 600 Canadian city councils had declared climate emergencies.


 * 18 - 22 September 2023 The United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week and Climate Week.


 * 18 September 2023 A statement entitled, "Governing Our Planetary Emergency: Charting a Safe Path for a Workable Future" by the Climate Governance Commission (CGC) was published. The CGC said, we are faced with a "deepening planetary emergency...having already over-stepped six of nine scientifically-identified planetary boundaries." They said that this emergency is caused by "fossil fuel-based economies, resource waste/overconsumption and the destruction of nature". The social and ecological consequences destabilize the world and threaten all humanity.