Joyeeta Gupta

'A just world on a safe planet'

Professor Dr. Joyeeta Gupta is Distinguished Professor of Climate Justice, Sustainability and Global Constitutionalism and a Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Previously, she was a Professor of Climate Change Policy and Law at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. She received the highest academic recognition in the Netherlands – the Spinoza Prize in 2023 (€1.5M for 2024-2029). Professor Gupta has a European Research Council Advanced Grant (€2.5 M for 2021-2026) for climate research.

She is on the editorial board of six journals and was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1998-2014) and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. She has supervised 33 PhDs and is currently supervising 16 PhD students. She has led, or participated in, acquiring 60 projects since 1993 from funding agencies including the European Commission and the National Science Foundation in the Netherlands. She is the co-author of J. Gupta et al., ‘A Just World on a Safe Planet: Earth System Boundaries, Transformations and Translation’, Lancet Planetary Health, 2024.

Joyeeta Gupta was co-chair of UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People (2016-2019). From 2019 until 2023 was co-chair of the Earth Commission which has published 20 papers including in The Lancet Planetary Health and Nature and presented results at the World Economic Forum on 18 January in the WEF in Davos, 2023 and 2024. She has just been appointed by the UN Secretary General as co-chair of the Ten High-Level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs for 2024-2025.