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March 16, 2012
Article by Kim Luke, UofT News
A group of the world’s leading environmental scholars are sounding the alarm that human societies need to transform their national and international environmental institutions into a more coherent and robust planetary stewardship model to steer away from rapid and irreversible changes to the Earth’s subsystems.
University of Torontopolitical scientist Steven Bernstein is one of the authors of a paper which appears in Science on March 16, 2012.
In the article, more than 40 of the world’s top scholars warn that incremental change is not sufficient to bring about societal change at the level and with the speed necessary. “Structural change in global governance is needed, both inside and outside the United Nations (UN) system and involving both public and private actors.”