Planetary Boundaries

Nine systems regulate life on Earth.
Your business depends on all of them.

In just 3 hours, the Planetary Boundaries workshop helps teams explore the nine systems regulating life on Earth,
understand where boundaries are being crossed, and connect planetary risks to business strategy.
PLANETARY BOUNDARIES

Your Strategy Sits Inside a Larger System

Climate is one boundary of nine. Freshwater, biodiversity, land use, nitrogen and phosphorus flows, ocean acidification and the rest form the operating envelope every business depends on, and several have already been crossed.

This workshop widens the frame. Teams explore all nine boundaries, see how they interact, and connect them to the risks and dependencies sitting inside their own strategy. It is the session that stops climate being treated as the only environmental question that matters.

See the whole system: understand all nine planetary boundaries, not just the one that makes headlines.

Connect to your business: map where your organisation depends on, and pressures, each boundary.

Broaden the strategy: leave able to make decisions that account for the full environmental envelope, not a single metric.

Duration

3 hours

Format

In-person or online

Languages

English, French

Participants

7–14 per facilitator, scalable by adding facilitators

Outcomes for your team:

A clear grasp of the nine boundaries and where each currently stands.
An understanding of how boundaries interact, and why acting on one in isolation can worsen another.
A mapped view of your dependencies and pressures across the full environmental envelope.
Better strategic decisions that account for more than carbon alone.
AUDIENCES

This Session is Ideal For

Leadership
Teams

Widen the environmental conversation beyond carbon so strategy accounts for the systems the business actually depends on.

Sustainability Professionals

Give your internal conversation the systemic frame it needs, and the language to defend a broader agenda.

Strategy & Risk
Teams

Surface dependencies and pressures that a carbon-only lens leaves invisible.

A share of every commercial engagement funds the non-profits behind these workshops.
EMPOWER

Empower your people to scale the impact

Train-the-trainer ready, lower long-term costs, build internal capacity, align learning with business goals, support career transitions, lift your entire organisation, deliver results faster.
BUSINESS SENSE

Delivered by expert facilitators with business sense

Backed by the same global network and facilitation standard behind our full workshop portfolio which has trained over 3M+ participants worldwide. Trusted by companies in finance, construction, public sector & digital. We don’t just explain the science, we link it to your company’s reality.

Ready to see your business within
the nine boundaries?