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General news | 2023-11-30

“We need to transition back within all Planetary Boundaries”

Phase out fossil fuels, transform the food system, and remove pressures on all planetary boundaries — in a just way. Centre researchers send a clear message to all participants at COP28

General news | 2023-11-28

Putting resilience at the heart of COP28

Stockholm Resilience Centre will host and join a range of activities at COP28. The participation is done in close collaboration with the Global Resilience Partnership and our development programme SwedBio

General news | 2023-11-27

First Swedish national citizen assembly on climate could show the way to transformation

Can a citizen assembly come up with ideas on how Sweden could live up to the Paris Agreement? This will be tested in a new collaboration of Swedish universities, which Stockholm Resilience Centre is a part of

General news | 2023-11-15

Researchers from the Centre listed among the world’s most cited

Four researchers associated with Stockholm Resilience Centre made it onto the 2023 Clarivate Analytics overview, a ranking of the most cited scientists in the world

Research news | 2023-11-14

Norms must change in order for academia to walk the talk on sustainability, new paper argues

Sustainability research is rarely sustainable, neither for the planet nor for academics, argues a new paper. In it, researchers call for a rethink of current norms and practices

Research news | 2023-11-13

New research maps 14 potential evolutionary dead ends for humanity and ways to avoid them

Humankind risks getting stuck in 14 evolutionary dead ends, ranging from global climate tipping points to misaligned artificial intelligence, chemical pollution, and accelerating infectious diseases

Research news | 2023-11-10

The bumpy road towards a global plastics treaty

Plastic pollution needs to end. While most countries agree on this, negotiations for a legally binding UN plastics treaty are going slowly. Centre researcher Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez explains why.

General news | 2023-10-19

Centre programme educates Swedish trade union leaders on sustainability

Representatives from twenty Swedish trade unions attend a centre-hosted course for becoming leaders in a just climate transformation

Research news | 2023-10-05

Carbon offsets should embrace uncertainty

Exact predictions of how much carbon can be stored in offset projects are a scientific impossibility. That's why the carbon offset market should build resilience instead and learn from other sectors, argues a new policy research paper in Science

Research news | 2023-10-04

Study maps and groups threatened coral reef ecosystem services

New study investigates how coral reef ecosystem services are linked and distributed in 18 countries around the world

Research news | 2023-10-03

Combining modeling and empirical research can give better sustainability insights

Mixing empirical methods and modeling can provide better insights into cause-effect relationships in sustainability, and improve governance

General news | 2023-09-19

New Google.org grant funds Centre research on AI-powered climate risk tool

Google.org has awarded five million US dollars to a group of scientists, including Centre researchers, to develop and scale ClimateIQ , an artificial intelligence-powered climate risk evaluation tool for cities

General news | 2023-09-19

Researchers and chefs team up for a sustainable lunch week

“Risotto on Swedish oat-rice, with apple cider vinegar, blue mussels from Bohuslän, parsley, and grated Svecia cheese”. That’s one of the science-cooked dishes that guests can enjoy at “A Planetary Lunch” — an experimental lunch week at Stockholm university

Research news | 2023-09-14

The SDGs are not on track — new report outlines what needs to happen

Humanity is set to miss the Sustainable Development Goals. But decisive and timely policy actions can kickstart extraordinary turnarounds and a giant leap toward achieving the SDGs

Research news | 2023-09-13

All planetary boundaries mapped out for the first time, six of nine crossed

For the first time, an international team of scientists is able to provide a detailed outline of planetary resilience by mapping out all nine boundary processes that define a safe operating space for humanity.

General news | 2023-09-04

Centre secures 28 MSEK research funding in two new Formas grants

The two grants worth 14 million SEK each will focus on the intersection of climate, water and biodiversity

General news | 2023-08-30

Science and music met as Centre research was presented in a concert at the Baltic Sea Festival

“Dialogues” premiered – a piece of music written about Carolin Seiferth’s PhD research

Research news | 2023-08-29

New book tells the story of Centre initiative on ocean stewardship

How can corporations, guided by science, be part of the solution to the challenges of the biosphere? A new book by Centre researcher Henrik Österblom delves into the origins and lessons of SeaBOS

Research news | 2023-08-21

Working with nature is essential for making cities climate neutral

New technology itself will not be sufficient for cities to become climate neutral. Nature-based solutions are required too. That is the main result of a recent study based on satellite data from 54 European cities

Research news | 2023-08-18

How ocean science can contribute to peace

In a world of conflict, can the ocean be a place of peace? Yes, says a new review paper, and concludes that the UN Ocean Decade has an important role to play

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