Part 1: Planetary Boundaries and PEF - Understanding the Framework

Life Cycle Assessments using the PEF framework quantify product impacts across 16 environmental categories. The Planetary Boundaries framework, originally developed by Rockström et al. in 2009, takes a different approach, defining thresholds for humanity's total impact on Earth systems. Beyond these thresholds, we cannot reliably assume safe conditions for human societies. Understanding how these...