We’re living beyond our planet’s limits. Planetary Accounting shows how to live within the.

We urgently need to make decisions that consider all of the Planetary Boundaries, and enable us to return to the safe operating space for humankind.

The 2025 update to the Planetary boundaries. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Credit: "Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, based on analysis in Sakschewski and Caesar et al. 2025

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yet most of our focus is still on carbon

Our ability to account for carbon is creating a narrow lens for decision making.

A focus on a single indicator like carbon, can lead to impact shifting - where we reduce one impact (such as carbon and greenhouse gas emissions) at the cost of another (such as biodiversity).

We therefore need to look beyond carbon to consider broader impacts on nature - to enable decisions that are good for the planet as a whole.

People are now starting to broaden their focus from carbon to the wider impacts on nature

tHE pLANETARY bOUNDARIES SHOWS US THE STATE OF THE pLANET

…but how do we translate this into the limits that guide our decisions?

Planetary Accounting

like carbon accounting, for nature.

Carbon accounting can be used to quantify the impacts of human activity on climate change, in context of what is needed to limit global warming to 1.5C.

Planetary Accounting enables us to quantify the broader environmental impacts of human activity, including on climate change, in context of critical global limits called the Planetary Boundaries.

Planetary Accounting is a scientifically peer reviewed framework that was first published in Sustainable Earth - a Springer Nature Journal in 2018 and has since had 59 citations.

It was then published by Springer as a text-book in 2020.

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Applications

Complete a Planetary Accounting Assessment

We have a range of applications of Planetary Accounting to measure your impact.

Want to Look beyond carbon and bring a Planetary Boundaries lens to your organisation, product, service, or region?

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Professional Development

Training

Our online sustainability courses range from entry-level/foundational modules through to an intensive 80 hour/6-month practical course.

The Planetary Accounting network offers a range of online courses on climate change, environmental limits, Planetary Boundaries, and Planetary Accounting.

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Membership

Become a individual Member

There is currently no minimum cost to join; you choose how much to contribute.

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Network

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Demonstrate support for our vision and engage, collaborate test, enable, advance, support, and scale our work.

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Education

Schools Programme

We are now inviting schools and sponsors to join us to scale this programme up across Aotearoa.

Communities, and especially rangatahi, are concerned about state of the environment, and want to take action.

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Resources

Tools & Resources

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Our Impact

Our Impact Report

OUR NETWORK

Members, Delivery Partners, Sponsors, and Not-For-Profit Partners

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Your donations help us amplify our impact by allowing us to accelerate and scale our work to bring the Planetary Boundaries into people's decision making at all levels.

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OUR delivery & implementation partners

Delivery Partners are consultancy-based organisations who collaborate with us to provide Planetary Accounting support to their clients, and to enable PAN to provide wider support to our partners, such as the extension of Planetary Facts into Environmental Product Declarations (thinkstep-anz), or the development of roadmaps to nature positive (Beca).

Our implementation partner, Planetary Insights, works with us to digitise Planetary Accounting applications to facilitate rapid market adoption.