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Ammonia: A Cost-Effective Priority for Cleaner Air
Ammonia: A Cost-Effective Priority for Cleaner Air

Baojing Gu from Zhejiang University, International Champion of China for the 2023 edition of the Frontiers Planet Prize, discusses why managing nitrogen emissions is essential for maintaining safe planetary boundaries and safeguarding public health in urban environments, and outlines a cost-effective strategy for reducing ammonia emissions and contributing to cleaner air.

Embracing the Climate Double Dividend and Exploring the Transition Towards Plant-Based Diets
Embracing the Climate Double Dividend and Exploring the Transition Towards Plant-Based Diets

Paul Behrens from Leiden University, International Champion of The Netherlands for the 2023 edition of the Frontiers Planet Prize, together with Zhongxiao Sun, first author of their winning article, share their thoughts on why a global food transition is key for keeping humanity operating within the safe operating space of our planet.

The Great Acceleration towards a “Green Renaissance”:</span> What is the role of open transformational science?
The Great Acceleration towards a “Green Renaissance”: What is the role of open transformational science?

To keep our planet operating within its safe ecological boundaries, the global community is facing a complete systems change in our way of life. Prof Jean-Claude Burgelman, Director of the Frontiers Planet Prize shares that this transformation requires an accelerated techno-economic paradigm shift for a “green renaissance” towards a healthy planet. The only way we can make it happen is by massively investing in open transformational science.

The Frontiers Research Foundation has launched the Frontiers Planet Prize

with the ambition to accelerate scientific solutions for healthy lives on a healthy planet.

We are confronted with an environmental crisis on a planetary scale, creating a threat for humanity. Even though human activity that is destabilizing the global ecosystem is a more serious threat to life on the planet and a far more challenging problem to solve than the COVID-19 pandemic, we should learn from how hard the world fought the pandemic - successfully align on declaring a global state of emergency, triggering a race for technological solutions, and implement science-based global policies that bring about the needed behavioral changes.

The ambition of the Frontiers Planet Prize is to directly address the planetary crisis, by mobilizing scientists engaged in breakthrough research, with the greatest potential to stabilize the planet’s ecosystem.

Only inspired science, technological breakthroughs and widespread global action can spark off a green renaissance at the scale required.