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.
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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.
See How you can get involved
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.
Membership
Become a individual Member
There is currently no minimum cost to join; you choose how much to contribute.
Become a member and amplify our impact.
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Network
Join our network
Demonstrate support for our vision and engage, collaborate test, enable, advance, support, and scale our work.
Our network of organisations amplifies our impact.
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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.
Resources
Tools & Resources
Read our publications, case studies, or blogs.
Access our tools & resources.
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As of 2025 we have crossed 7 of the 9 planetary boundaries.
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.
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Learn more about how Planetary Accounting operationalises the Planetary Boundaries here
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
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).
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Our implementation partner, Planetary Insights, works with us to digitise Planetary Accounting applications to facilitate rapid market adoption.
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