Joyeeta Gupta (born in Delhi, India) is a social scientist focusing on environment and development.

[1] She is a Commissioner in the Global Commission on the Economics of Water,[2] organized by OECD, financed by the Netherlands Government (2022-24).

Along with Johan Rockström, she did a plenary presentation of the Earth Commission results at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2023.

Her work has been made into a three dimensional art piece in the pop climate museum which the public can interact with.

Gupta completed her doctoral research in 1997 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she studied climate change in the North South context focusing on the perspective of developing countries.

[14] Her doctoral research was the first to explore the negotiation challenges facing rich and poor countries in relation to climate change.

She has worked since 1989 on climate change and its impacts on developing countries and increasingly on rich poor conflict.

In 2017, she also participated in the design and signature of the Rome Declaration on the Human Right to Water[19] initiated by Pope Francis and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City.

[22] She has acquired more than 60 projects including the prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant in 2021 which focuses on the challenges of leaving fossil fuels underground.

In 2023 she won the Spinoza award (1.5 million euros),[23] the highest scientific award in the Netherlands and is using the money to work on an open science justice lab to develop a draft global constitution- in 2024 she launched the Global Constitution Project and sought participants from across the world.

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.

Una guía de supervivencia para negociadores nuevos y solitarios del cambio climático[30] Gupta, J. and J. Allan (2023).

Wasantha Nandalal, L. Salamé, RRP vam Nooijen, N. Kumar, T. Tingsanchali, A. Bhaduri, and A.G. Kolechkina (eds.)

Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development Cooperation: Theory, Practice and Implications for the European Union, Cambridge University Press, p. 347.

Climate Change and European Leadership: A Sustainable Role for Europe, Environment and Policy Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, p. 344.

Managing a Material World: Reflections on Industrial Ecology, Environment and Policy Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, p. 348.

Special Issue on Sustainable Development and Investment, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 6(4).

Special Issue on Post Kyoto Measures, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 1(4).

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.

A just world on a safe planet: Earth system boundaries, transformations and translation, Lancet Planetary Health[33] 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[34] 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).

14(4):49[35] 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[36] Bai, X. et al. (2024).

Translating Earth System Boundaries for Cities and Business: Principles and Protocol, Nature Sustainability[37] 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[38] 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.

Beyond divest vs. engage: a review of the role of institutional investors in an inclusive fossil fuel phase-out, Climate Policy[40] Gupta, J.

Governing for a safe and just future with science-based targets: Opportunities and limitations, Climate and Development[41] Stewart-Koster, B. et al. (2023).

How can we live within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water?, Nature Sustainability[42] 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.