Our lifestyle is making us ill and is destroying the natural life-support systems. In the vision of ‘healthy living on a healthy planet’, human spheres of life – what we eat, how we move, where we live – are designed to be both healthy and environmentally compatible, and planetary risks – climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution – have been overcome.

Only if there is a fundamental change in the way we manage land we can reach the targets of climate-change mitigation, avert the dramatic loss of biodiversity and make the global food system sustainable.

Technical innovation surges do not automatically translate into sustainability transformations, but must be closely coupled with sustainability guidelines and policies.

Only if there is a fundamental change in the way we manage land, we can reach the targets of climate-change mitigation, avert the dramatic loss of biodiversity and make the global food system sustainable, this is the key message of the report “Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene: from Separation to Integration”, recently submitted to the German Federal Government.

How can we make global development possible without compromising our natural life-support systems, and which forms of damage must be avoided? The WBGU defined "planetary guard rails" which help to keep such existential damage at bay. This short film explains  the concept of guardrails.

Here you will find media reports on the WBGU. In addition to feedback to our reports, we document articles citing WBGU or interviews with WBGU representatives. Where possible, WBGU-related radio broadcast and television footage are also made available here.