Planetary boundaries
Competence frameworks for the built environment – Core criteria for sustainability competence - Code of practice , Version 3, published by the Edge for the Construction Industry Council in February 2025, defines planetary boundaries as: ‘Earth system processes critical for maintaining the stable state of the Holocene, such as biosphere integrity, land-use change and climate change. Although not all these processes have definable single thresholds, crossing the boundaries increases the risk of large-scale, potentially irreversible, environmental changes.’
Ref Dasgupta. P. (2021) The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, HM Treasury, p506.
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