Joyeeta Gupta

Joyeeta Gupta
Born	(1964-06-12) June 12, 1964 Delhi, India
Alma mater	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Harvard Law School Gujarat University Delhi University Air Force Central School Loreto Convent School St. Mary Convent Allahabad
Awards	Spinoza Prize (2023) Nobel Peace Prize (2007)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Amsterdam
Thesis	The climate change convention and developing countries: from conflict to consensus? (1997)
Website	www.uva.nl/en/profile/g/u/j.gupta/j.gupta.html

Joyeeta Gupta (born 12 June 1964, New Delhi) is an environmental socialscientist who is Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam, and Professor at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, she is the ongoing co-chair of the United Nations Group of Ten High-level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs and current commissary of the Earth Commission, set up by Future Earth and supported by the Global Challenges Alliance. She was co-chair of UNEP's Global Environment Outlook-6 (2016–2019), published by Cambridge University Press, which was presented to governments participating in the United Nations Environment Assembly in 2019. She is a member of the Amsterdam Global Change Institute. She was awarded the Association of American Publishers PROSE award for Environmental Science and the 2023 Spinoza Prize, highest academic award in the Netherlands.

Early life and education

Gupta was born in Delhi and studied at St. Mary Convent (Allahabad), Loreto Convent School (Delhi) and at the Air Force Central School (Delhi) where she was school captain. She did her Bachelors on Economics atDelhi University and on Law at Gujarat University. She then moved to the United States for her graduate studies, specialising in international law at Harvard Law School. Gupta completed her doctoral research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she studied climate change in developing countries. Her doctoral research was the first to explore the negotiation challenges facing rich and poor countries in relation to climate change.

Research and career

Gupta is a scholar in earth system governance and co-authored the first science and implementation plan of the Earth System Governance Project in 2009. She has an h-index of 71 and more than 21.000 citation on Google Scholar

In 2013, Gupta joined the faculty at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research has considered the impacts of climate change on society, demonstrating elevated tensions between the rich and poor. She has argued that to prevent conflict and climate change induced injustice it is critical to redistribute natural resources, and measure national growth based on global constitutionalism instead of gross domestic product.

Currently she is Faculty Sustainability Professor and co-leads the group on Governance and Inclusive Development and the Centre for Sustainable Development Studies. As Faculty Sustainability professor, she promotes environmental studies in the faculty as a whole. As founding co-convenor of the University’s Centre for Sustainable Development Studies, she helps coordinate related activities. She has participated in and/or acquired 60 projects since 1993 from funding agencies including the European Commission and the National Science Foundation in the Netherlands. She has also participated in the design and signature of The Rome Declaration of 2017 on the Human Right to Water, initiated by the Pope and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City.

Memberships

She has been on the scientific steering committees of international programmes including the Steering Committee of the Global Agricultural Research Partnership (CGIAR) research programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (2015-2018); and Future Earth’s Earth System Governance programme (2008-2018). At EU level, she was a member of Science Europe’s Scientific Committee for the Sciences and the Joint Programming Initiative - Climate Transdisciplinary Advisory Board in Brussels.

At national level, she is on the Supervisory Board of the SNV Netherlands Development Organization. She was on the Supervisory Board of Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in 2023 and Oxfam Novib. Her role in the Supervisory Boards implies not only being responsible for the substantive work, but also for the financial supervision of organizations that manage > €200 M.

She was the Vice-President of the Dutch Commission on Development Cooperation (2011-2019) and member of the Advisory Council on International Affairs (2011-2019), a statutory body advising three Cabinet Ministers. She was a member of the Board of Research for Global Development, WOTRO/N.W.O. (2004-2010). She is currently vice-chair of the Curatorium of the Prins Claus Chair on Equity and Development.

Awards and honors

• 2023 Spinoza Prize, the highest distinction in Dutch science and also called the 'Dutch Nobel Prize'.
• 2022 Piers Sellers Prize for climate research, Leeds University
• 2021 - 2026 ERC Advanced Grant
• 2019 Prose Award for Environmental Science for UNEP's Global Environmentsl Outlook-6
• 2015 Atmospheric Science Librarians International Choice Award
• 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as IPCC author

• 2005 2^nd Zayed Prize as Mill. Ecosystem Assessment author
• 2003-08 NWO – VIDI, Netherlands
• 1998-2000 NWO – Person oriented post doc, Netherlands

Selected publications

• Gupta, J., X. Bai, D.M. Liverman, J. Rockström, D. Qin, B. Stewart-Koster, J.C. Rocha, L. Jacobson, J.F. Abrams, L.S. Andersen, D.I. Armstrong McKay, G. Bala, S.E. Bunn, D. Ciobanu, F. DeClerck, K. Ebi, L. Gifford, C. Gordon, S. Hasan, N. Kanie, T. M. Lenton, S. Loriani, A. Mohamed, N. Nakicenovic, D. Obura, D. Ospina, K. Prodani, C. Rammelt, B. Sakschewski, J. Scholtens, T. Tharammal, D. van Vuuren, P.H. Verburg, R. Winkelmann, C. Zimm, E. Bennett, A. Bjørn, S. Bringezu, W. Broadgate, H. Bulkeley, B. Crona, P. Green, H. Hoff, L. Huang, M. Hurlbert, C.Y.A.Inoue, Ş. Kilkiş, S. J. Lade, J. Liu, I. Nadeem, C. Ndehedehe, C. Okereke, I. Otto, S. Pedde, L. Pereira, L. Schulte-Uebbing, J.D. Tàbara, W. de Vries, G. Whiteman, C. Xiao, X. Xu, N. Zafra-Calvo, X. Zhang (2024). A just world on a safe planet: Earth system boundaries, transformations and translation, Lancet Planetary Health, https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2542-5196(24)00042-1

• Gupta, J., Y. Chen, D. Armstrong McKay, P. Fezzigna, G. Gentile, A. Karg, L. van Vliet, S. Lade, L. Jacobson (2024). Applying Earth System Justice to phase out fossil fuels: Learning from the injustice of adopting 1.5°C over 1°C, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, . https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-024-09628-y
• Kort R, Arts K, Antó JM, Berg MP, Cepella G, Cole J, van Doorn A, van Gorp T, Grootjen M, Gupta J, et al. (2023). Outcomes from the First European Planetary Health Congress at ARTIS, Amsterdam. Challenges. 14(4):49. https://doi.org/10.3390/challe14040049
• Rockström, J., Kotzé, L.J., Milutinović, S., Biermann, F.; Brovkin, V.; Donges, J. F.; Ebbesson, J.; French, D.; Gupta, J.; Kim, R. E.; Lenton, T. M.; Lenzi, D.; Nakicenovic, N.; Neumann, B.; Schuppert, F.; Winkelmann, R.; Bosselmann, K.; Folke, C.; Lucht, W.; Schlosberg, D.; Richardson, K.; Steffen, W.; and P. Schlosser (2024). The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene, PNAS, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301531121; (Earth Commission; linked to CLIFF).
• Bai, X. et al. (2024). Translating Earth System Boundaries for Cities and Business: Principles and Protocol, Nature Sustainability, DOI:10.1038/s41893-023-01255-w, (Earth Commission and linked to CLIFF).
• Heras, A. and J. Gupta (2023). Fossil fuels, stranded assets, and the energy transition in the Global South: a systematic literature review, WIRES Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.866 (CLIFF).
• Muchemi JG, Gupta J, McCall MK, Pfeffer K. Nationally determined contributions-enhanced climate mitigation actions and safeguards (ECMAS) indicator framework for helping countries design sustainable and inclusive net-zero emissions reduction outcomes. Carbon Footprints 2023;2:17. http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/cf.2023.30
• McDonnell, C. and J. Gupta (2023). Beyond divest vs. engage: a review of the role of institutional investors in an inclusive fossil fuel phase-out, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2261900 (CLIFF).
• Gupta, J. (2023). We need to collectively redefine development: Q&A with Joyeeta Gupta, One Earth, 6(11): 1450-1452.
• Gifford, L.,  D. Liverman, J. Gupta, L. Jacobson (2023). Governing for a safe and just future with science-based targets: Opportunities and limitations, Climate and Development, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2264255 (Earth  Commission, linked to CLIFF)
• Stewart-Koster, B. et al. (2023). How can we live within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water?, Nature Sustainability, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01247-w; (Earth Commission and Global Commission on the Economics of Water).
• Herzog-Hawelka, N. and J. Gupta (2023). The role of (multi)national oil and gas companies in leaving fossil fuels underground: A systematic literature review, Energy Research and Social Science, 23,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103194 (CLIFF).
• Gupta, J., Vegelin, C. (2023) Inclusive development, leaving no one behind, justice and the sustainable development goals. Int Environ Agreements. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-023-09612-y
• Rockström, J., Gupta, J., Qin, D. et al. Safe and just Earth system boundaries. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06083-8; for the altmetric see: https://nature.altmetric.com/details/149176772

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