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"Stockholm could be the best place in the world to do a PhD"
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To mark this occasion, we want to highlight one of the outstanding female research students at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Anne Charlotte Bunge. In this piece she talks about what she appreciates the most about doing her PhD at Stockholm University.
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Resilient rhythms: Bringing scientific insights to life through music
As humanity grapples with its impact on the planet, the symphonic work RESIL offers a different way to reflect on our shared home and our role within it. Carl Folke’s research provides the intellectual foundation; Jacob Mühlrad’s music, the emotional resonance. Together, they invite us to rethink resilience—not just as a concept, but as a practice, a mindset, and a way of being.
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Grounding EU sustainability reporting in science: A call for action
Beatrice Crona, Science director and Professor at the Centre, is one of the key authors behind a recently published Open Letter to the European Commission, signed by 44 leading academics in sustainability reporting.
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New funding for sustainable diplomacy and circular economy
Two projects led by researchers from the Centre have secured new funding from Mistra, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research.
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Finalizing a global plastic treaty must be guided by independent science
Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution have failed to reach agreement. Pending a follow-up meeting, researchers keep calling on decision-makers to be truly informed by independent science when agreeing on a global treaty.
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New science centre to explore resilient meals
Stockholm University has been granted funding from Formas to establish PLATE – a Swedish research center for resilient meals. PLATE will conduct research and collaborate on the role of meals in enhancing preparedness, sustainability, and competitiveness in Sweden.
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Alpine World Cup in Åre team up with scientists to address climate change
Winter sports have a key role to play in addressing the climate and environmental crisis. Stockholm Resilience Centre now partners with the Alpine World Cup in Åre in March 2025. The event will bring together professional athletes, researchers and leaders in business, politics and civil society to address how to safeguard white winters.
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Centre researchers among most cited in the world
Five Stockholm Resilience Centre researchers are among the most cited scientists in the world, according to the 2024 Clarivate list.
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Line Gordon elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry
Centre director has been elected into the General Division of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry for her expertise in sustainability science.
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Strengthened food and aquatic research with SEK 24,5 million Formas grants
Five Centre researchers are receiving a total of 24,5 million SEK funding from Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development, to fund new research in food and aquatic systems.
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21 Centre researchers ranked among top 2% most cited scientists globally
21 of Stockholm Resilience Centre’s researchers are listed among 2% most cited scientists in their field in 2024, according to the new Elsevier Data Repository.
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Jane Lubchenco: “Scientists have to move beyond the doom and gloom"
The clock is ticking and we need to translate knowledge about earth systems and how they are changing, not only into awareness but into action.
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COP16: “We need to bend the curve for biodiversity loss”
How should biodiversity be monitored, measured and financed to protect our planet? Stockholm Resilience Centre and Centre programme Swedbio are attending COP16 in Colombia to help shape the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
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Global science-policy initiative aims
to supercharge planetary resilience
With a “Key Must-Knows in Resilience Science” report, sustainability researchers from across the world are coming together in a new science-policy initiative. The report will inform UN agencies, governments, civil society, and businesses to build resilience to safeguard the planet.
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Radical Ocean Futures featured in new setup at the Baltic Sea Festival
Radical Ocean Futures, an award-winning art-science project with artwork by Simon Stålenhag, will re-premiere in a new form.
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“Artists like Taylor Swift should tell fans to be stewards of the planet”
Artists, music companies and festivals can play an important role in addressing climate change.
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Centre leadership appointed for another term
Centre Director Line Gordon and Centre Deputy Director Lisen Schultz have been appointed to continue in their respective positions for another three years. The appointment was made by Stockholm University leadership
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Centre science featured in new Spotify podcast hosted by Alexander Skarsgård
“How We Fix This”, a new podcast series from Spotify and Norrsken, delves into concrete solutions to some of the world's most pressing sustainability issues. It is hosted by Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor Alexander Skarsgård and features several Centre researchers.
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Centre researcher Peter Søgaard Jørgensen joins the Young Academy of Sweden
Centre researcher Peter Søgaard Jørgensen has been elected into the Young Academy of Sweden, a junior version of the Swedish academies, including the prestigious Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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First Swedish citizens' assembly: Sweden needs to be united on climate
Make climate change a school subject, invest in high-speed trains and make public transport more reliable, equal and cheaper. These are 3 of 22 proposals from Sweden's first national citizens' assembly on climate change
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"If the planet doesn’t work, we will not be able to live on it”
The decisions that humanity makes this decade will shape the living conditions on our planet for many generations to come.
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Centre report calls for investments in resilience
Humanity is now on the brink of polycrisis, but vital transformations can still be made to secure a resilient and liveable future for people and planet, according to the Centre’s newly published annual report.
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Greentopia: music and sports events,
a highway to sustainability?
Can music and sports events help societal transformations toward sustainability? During one of Sweden's premier festivals, Way Out West, the Centre co-hosts a climate summit to help answer that question.
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Centre research listed among top ten of most cited papers in policy
Three scientific works with heavy involvement from the Stockholm Resilience Centre have been included on a list of the ten most cited non-economics papers in policy documents by Nature
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Centre receives extended funding from Mistra for food research
The research programme Mistra Food Futures, in which the Centre is a partner, receives SEK 64 million for the upcoming four and a half years
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New planetary boundary game bridges education and climate action
A new innovative computer game lets Danish school children learn about key research on planetary boundaries
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First Swedish national citizens’ assembly on climate kicks off
How should Sweden lower its emissions to be in line with the Paris Agreement? This question is at the core as Sweden’s first national citizens’ assembly on climate starts on 9 March 2024
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Lisen Schultz listed as one of the most influential women in business in Sweden
Centre deputy director Lisen Schultz, director of the Executive Programme on Resilience Thinking, has been included on the list of most influential women within the Swedish business sector
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Johan Rockström awarded the Tyler Prize
Johan Rockström, professor and former director at Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, now leading the University of Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, has received the world's top environmental prize.
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Having good neighbours and few top predators make predatory fish populations more resilient
A regime shift is gradually spreading through the archipelagos of the Swedish Baltic Sea coast, where shallow bays, previously dominated by pike and perch have one by one become dominated by one of their prey species, the three-spined stickleback.
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Eating new plant-based foods can be good for the environment, your health and your economy
Replacing animal-source foods with plant-based alternatives or whole foods decreases environmental impact, meets nutrition recommendations, and can be cost-competitive with the current average Swedish diet
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Bird AI and sailing drones – green game changers for marine ecosystems
Groups of guillemots on an island in the Baltic Sea have unknowingly inspired how marine research can be done. Two AI-powered research projects can change how to monitor marine ecosystems – and potentially manage them in real-time
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Centralised social networks can hinder innovation by making decision-making too similar
Social systems where influence is centred around one or two individuals can lead to pack mentality and groupthink in farming communities
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Planetary Commons: Fostering global cooperation to safeguard critical Earth system functions
We should look at tipping elements of the Earth system as global commons, argue researchers in a new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Soy: A world journey from success to uncertainty
From a bean valued for its multitude of functions in ancient China to one of the most traded agricultural commodities of the modern world: the soybean has gone through dramatic changes throughout the millennia.
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Imagining pathways towards desirable futures
Every day, people plan for the future, but having structured thoughts about what futures could look like is a skill we should all practice in the face of the Anthropocene, according to recent research
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More rain, fewer droughts — rainfall effects from targeted forestation can reduce climate change
By prioritizing targeted increases in rainfall, forestation programs may not only mitigate global climate change itself but also reduce its concrete negative effects such as droughts, new study finds
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Wild plants and animals are key for well-being in the tropics, as is economic development
Should the use of wild plants and animals be rapidly phased out in the tropics for conservation and development purposes? A new study argues that this would not be such a good idea
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New system guides businesses to act within planetary boundaries
Only measuring carbon emissions will not help companies understand if they are on track in their sustainability work. A research team of ecologists and economists has developed a new reporting system: Earth System Impact, ESI
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Centre strengthens its research portfolio with Formas grants worth SEK 25 million
Research teams from the Centre have successfully applied for grants from Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development. They receive SEK 25 million across four research projects, as announced in November 2023
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COP28: Promising shifts, but a lot remains unsolved
A deal referred to as historic was made to conclude COP28. Centre researchers recognise that important progress was made, but warn about thinking new technology can solve challenges ahead
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Five key actions to fight the food crisis
A new science brief from Stockholm Resilience Centre and Global Resilience Partnership launched during COP28 discusses why the current food crisis has escalated so quickly up to global proportions. The researchers list five key actions for policy-makers to address.
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Malin Falkenmark, water pioneer and academic mother of water research has passed
It is with deep sadness we have learned that professor Malin Falkenmark has passed away at 98 years of age. She has been a pathbreaking pioneer and hero, always curious, always eager to learn more and always dedicated to sharing her knowledge with the next generation
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New report: Tipping point threats and opportunities accelerate
The world has reached a pivotal moment as threats from Earth system tipping points – and progress towards positive tipping points – accelerate, a new report shows
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Powerful financial giants could play vital role in preventing the next pandemic
A relatively small number of powerful financial institutions, such as investment companies, pension funds, and banks could help accelerate actions that mitigate the risks of new pandemics
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Lisen Schultz new Deputy Director
Associate Professor Lisen Schultz has been appointed Deputy Director of Stockholm Resilience Centre.
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Harnessing aquaculture for SDGs: A pathway to human and planetary health
Aquaculture contributes substantially to the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, but its future potential needs careful consideration of trade-offs, a new study shows
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The art and science of biosphere stewardship
New publication summarizes experiences from a unique art-science collaboration and explores the many ways that artists and scientists interact with the natural world
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Find new inspiration with our pop-culture tips!
We asked our staff for recommendations on what to get inspired by during the upcoming Swedish summer months. Here is their full list!
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A crisis is not always an opportunity for transformation — this new study explains why
For change agents, the COVID-19 pandemic created new barriers and uncertainties rather than a chance for positive change, a new study finds
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Aquatic foods around the world face severe risks from environmental change, finds new research
Aquatic foods are essential for global diets, but they are also vulnerable to environmental change. This vulnerability has been largely understudied, according to a new paper
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Envisioning alternative futures helps rethink human-ocean relationships
Imagining sustainable futures for the high seas may inspire change today, according to a recent study.
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More freshwater experts needed in the IPBES biodiversity panel
Centre researcher Jan Kuiper lists why and how more freshwater experts could contribute to the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
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Centre researcher Juan Rocha elected into Young Academy of Sweden
Centre researcher Juan Rocha joins the Young Academy of Sweden, a junior version of the prestigious Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, for a five-year term
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Groundbreaking study quantifies safe and just Earth system boundaries
International commission proposes new safe and just boundaries for maintaining a healthy planet and protecting people from significant harm
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AI could create a perfect storm of climate misinformation
The speed and the way misinformation about climate change and sustainability issues moves around the world is rapidly changing. Now, the Centre presents a new synthesis on AI and climate misinformation in connection to the Nobel Prize Summit 2023, "Truth, Trust and Hope"
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Financial actors and academia join forces to build back biodiversity
Today is International Biodiversity Day! This year with the theme “From agreement to action: build back biodiversity”, and for us, that is a good reason to highlight the potential of the finance sector in reviving biodiversity
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Maria Tengö appointed special professor at Wageningen University
Maria Tengö is the most recently appointed professor at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
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Grasping food supply risks: how self-sufficient and resilient are nations?
Lack of self-sufficiency and diversity in crop production remain main risks to national food supply, new study finds
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The cognition of the commons
The ability to monitor, evaluate and share our own cognitive processes can improve group decisions and enable more sustainable use of common-pool resources
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Building back better: Resilience means more than bouncing back
Adapting, transforming and creating new ways of functioning as a society: This is how reshaping a resilient future in the aftermath of a shock should look like, argue researchers
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Explore our annual report for 2022
The Stockholm Resilience Centre continues to grow stronger as an organisation and in influence
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Five steps to design diets that are good for people and planet
What we eat globally needs to shift. National dietary guidelines can play a major role in improving peoples’ environmental food footprint. A new framework looks at how to create them
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Time to put ocean sand on the global sustainability agenda
Sand is a key foundation of society, yet on the ocean sustainability front, it remains a blind spot, says new report
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The sound of co-production
Centre researcher Carolin Seiferth’s work will be featured in the Baltic Sea Festival – as a piece of music
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Centre co-founder Johan Rockström listed among TIME’s 100 most influential people of the year
Centre researcher and co-founder Johan Rockström made it onto the TIME100, the TIME magazine’s annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world
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Centre researchers awarded for groundbreaking paper on urban sustainability
Centre researchers Thomas Elmqvist, Erik Andersson, Timon McPhearson, Per Olsson, Owen Gaffney and Carl Folke are selected as recipients of the Ecological Society of America’s Sustainability Science Award 2023
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New ERC advanced grant boosts centre’s research on transformative change
Centre researcher Maja Schlüter receives an European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant of 2.5 million euros for a project that aims to build models of, with and for sustainability transformations
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IPCC: It’s not too late if we take climate action now
In its most recent report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issues a stark warning but also a message of hope
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Growing “plastic smog” of 170 trillion particles afloat in the ocean
More than 170 trillion microplastic particles are floating in the World’s oceans, new study finds
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Historic high seas treaty a win for planet and people
The new UN treaty on biodiversity in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction is a major step for ocean sustainability, according to centre researchers
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Planetary boundaries must include justice, say researchers
Earth system boundaries must not only ensure the stability of the planet but also protect humans and other species from significant harm
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World is set to miss UN targets for preventing deadly disasters
The global toll of disasters like the recent earthquake in Türkiye and Syria is on the rise because of a breakdown in communication between scientists and governments, according to a new report
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Blue foods can help solve multiple global challenges
Blue foods – fish, shellfish, algae and aquatic plants – can be instrumental in solving multiple global crises, new analysis shows
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New report: Swedish parliament should decide on a fair carbon budget
Sweden is not on track to reaching its own national climate targets – and it is not even clear if the targets are sufficient, according to scientists of the research programme Fairtrans
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Biodiversity policies need to move beyond economic growth
A post-capitalist approach to conservation is key for humans to live sustainably with nature
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With Will Steffen, Earth system science has lost its father
Centre director Line Gordon and chair of the board Carl Folke look back on their time with cherished colleague Will Steffen, who recently passed away
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Three quick questions for Marcus Lundstedt, our new head of communications
We welcome Marcus Lundstedt, the centre's new head of communications, and have a quick chat with him about his new role
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The best way to deal with shocks is by combining diverse responses
Humankind’s best chance to deal with looming turbulences and crises is by diversifying response strategies
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Policymakers need to work more closely with researchers to fight the global food crisis
We are facing the worst food crisis in modern history – Sweden and the EU need to take action to shift how food is produced and consumed. That was the message from researchers to policymakers during a high-level meeting for the Swedish government at Stockholm Resilience Centre
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