Corporations are perceived as increasingly powerful and critically important to ensuring that irreversible climatological or ecological tipping points on Earth are not crossed. Environmental impacts of corporate activities include pollution of soils, freshwater and the ocean, depletion of ecosystems and species, unsustainable use of resources, changes to air quality, and alteration of the global climate. Negative social impacts include unacceptable working conditions, erosion of traditional practices, and increased inequalities. Multiple formal and informal mechanisms have been developed, and innovative examples of corporate biosphere stewardship have resulted in progress. However, the biosphere crisis underscores that such efforts have been insufficient and that transformative change is urgently needed. We provide suggestions for aligning corporate activities with the biosphere and argue that such corporate biosphere stewardship requires more ambitious approaches taken by corporations, combined with new and formalized public governance approaches by governments.

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跨国公司、生物圈管理和可持续未来


企业被认为越来越强大，对于确保地球上不可逆转的气候或生态临界点不被跨越至关重要。企业活动对环境的影响包括土壤、淡水和海洋的污染、生态系统和物种的枯竭、资源的不可持续利用、空气质量的变化以及全球气候的改变。负面的社会影响包括不可接受的工作条件、传统做法的侵蚀以及不平等现象的加剧。多种正式和非正式机制已经建立，企业生物圈管理的创新范例也取得了进展。然而，生物圈危机凸显出这些努力还不够，迫切需要进行变革。我们提供了使企业活动与生物圈保持一致的建议，并认为这种企业生物圈管理需要企业采取更雄心勃勃的方法，并与政府新的、正式的公共治理方法相结合。