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Garry Peterson
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Director FinBio.org
Professor of Environmental Science
with focus on Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University stockholmresilience.org

projects:
regimeshifts.org
biospherefutures.net
goodanthropocenes.net
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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 21d
Resilience Science Must-Knows

Nine essential insights from global resilience science to help decision-makers navigate a turbulent world.

Developed in dialogue with decision makers, and synthesised by an international team of resilience researchers

www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...
Resilience Science Must-Knows
Nine things every decision maker should know about resilience
www.stockholmresilience.org
Reposted by Garry Peterson
arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social
"We find a highly connected network core of ∼275 directors...We find a large political premium for directors in very large companies."

This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
sociologicalsci.bsky.social Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 7d
NEW: Lasse Folke Henriksen, Jacob Aagard Lunding, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Anton Grau Larsen, "The Hardcore Brokers: Core-Periphery Structure and Political Representation in Denmark’s Corporate Elite Network" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
sociologicalscience.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Reposted by Garry Peterson
simondonner.bsky.social
UN climate summits are a strange hybrid of diplomatic negotiations and a sprawling climate change bazaar. You can learn a lot about the state of climate action from watching the negotiations and from the many concurrent panels and side events. Here are five themes that emerged frequently at #COP30:
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
“To remain competitive internationally, Sweden must meet its climate targets. Ordinary people want to be part of the transition, and we know it can be done fairly.”
-J Lindholm, President of LO, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation.

English
www.stockholmresilience.org/news--events...
24 reforms for a people-centred climate policy in Sweden
The research programme Fairtrans , hosted by the Centre, presents a groundbreaking agreement for a people-centred climate policy in Sweden, backed by major Swedish civil society organisations.
www.stockholmresilience.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
"Major Swedish organisations representing a total of 5 million members have negotiated 24 climate policy reforms grounded in science. Implementing these proposals could rapidly reduce emissions in a fair and effective way."

Swedish
fairtrans.nu/unik-overens...
Unik överenskommelse – 24 reformer för en folklig klimatpolitik - Fairtrans
Mikael Karlsson (Uppsala universitet), Beatrice Rindevall (Naturskyddsföreningen), Johan Lindholm (LO) Foto: Tobias Sterner/Björn Nordqvist/Clara Dagh ”Sveriges klimatpolitik går åt fel håll. Utsläppe...
fairtrans.nu
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Reposted by Garry Peterson
mparrington.bsky.social
The State of Wildfires website provides interactive maps for evaluating 2024-25 global fire season for detailed context (e.g., burned area anomaly by ecoregion shown below) stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/. For tropical Africa, the Congo Basin had one of the most extreme seasons in 2024.
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
“I think what the problem is right now is the methodology of consensus,
because this consensus has turned into veto...
So the most ambitious agenda has been eliminated.
Veto is what is happening here.”
-Torres, Colombia’s Environment and Sustainable Development Minister
drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts
COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.
drilled.media
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
"only chance of keeping 1.5C within reach
is ... concrete roadmaps to
accelerate the phase-out of fossil fuels and
protection of nature.
We got neither.” - Johan Rockström on COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30’s watered-down agreements will do little for an ecosystem at tipping point
Delegates made minimal headway on timetable for replacing oil and gas or on firm commitments to reducing carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Reposted by Garry Peterson
pik-potsdam.bsky.social
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by Garry Peterson
sthlmresilience.bsky.social
Unique agreement!

Researchers and key civil society actors together present 24 reforms for a people-centered climate policy in Sweden. The proposals span ten areas, including:

- major investments in railways,
- electric vehicles,
-wind power,
- and green skills provision.

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Headline on top of image of solar panels
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Reposted by Garry Peterson
sthlmresilience.bsky.social
“This is a clear sign that the EU’s regulatory efforts on sustainable finance are too soft on anti-greenwashing measures,” says Centre researcher Beatrice Crona. “As a result, green investing is doing very little to shift actual investment allocations.”

Learn more: buff.ly/LEZhfZ8
Green funds only slightly differ from others, new study finds
A new study from researchers at the Centre and at KTH The Royal Institute of Technology has analysed nearly 7,000 European funds. They found that most “green” portfolios mirror conventional ones –…
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
"...archaeologists have identified up to 11 canoes—ranging from 800 to 4,500 years old—within the same site. The 4,500-year-old canoe is now the oldest recorded in the Great Lakes."
www.wisconsinhistory.org/canoe
The Mendota Canoes | Wisconsin Historical Society
In partnership with Wisconsin’s Native Nations, we are preserving a pair of historic dugout canoes recovered from Madison’s Lake Mendota in 2021 and 2022.
www.wisconsinhistory.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
Wisconsin Historical Society
www.wisconsinhistory.org/canoe

Archaeologists mapped the location of 16 canoes submerged in the lake bed of Lake Mendota in Madison
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Archaeologists find ancient canoes used by Indigenous people in Wisconsin
Sixteen submerged canoes were discovered along Lake Mendota’s shore at a kind of prehistoric parking lot
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reposted by Garry Peterson
uslnyc.bsky.social
🌿 TODAY at #COP30:
Launching the NATURA Global Roadmap for Urban NbS—the FIRST global assessment of urban nature-based solutions
✨ 1000+ publications
✨ 150+ case studies worldwide
✨ 80+ expert contributors
✨ 7 regional teams
🎥 New video live now
📄 Get the reports at nbsroadmap.org
#NBSRoadmap
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Reposted by Garry Peterson
socses.bsky.social
📣 Upcoming webinar on how local “seeds” and participatory foresight can help guide pathways toward more sustainable and just futures 🌱

🎤 @amandajimenezac.bsky.social from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social

🗓️ 25 November 2025
🕑 7 am Mountain / 15:00 CET / 16:00 CAT
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/4pb3ybfz
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Reposted by Garry Peterson
tnoc.bsky.social
#TNOCEssay
What happens when you ask people around the world to photograph the outdoor places that keep them healthy?
Read the essay and join the conversation: buff.ly/SEdE9TS
#UrbanNature #HealthyCities #Photovoice #NatureForHealth #TNOC
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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rajpatel.org
Now that I can post freely about books, there's quite a backlog. First, get your library to get a copy of the Oxford Handbook of Land Politics. (30% discount below) Ian Scoones lists the reason to read it and, as always, he's right: www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Reposted by Garry Peterson
plieningerlab.bsky.social
Which innovations around #ForestEcosystemServices are being developed in Europe? And where do we find them? A continent-wide mapping exercise led by Marko Lovric, an output of the SINCERE (sincereforests.eu) & InnoforEst (innoforest.eu) projects. #OpenAccess. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
"13.4% of homeowners — about 1 in 8 — are unprotected by homeowners insurance"
New Census Bureau data shows homeowners in the South and the Gulf Coast are particularly vulnerable.
www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
The share without insurance is highest in the South, where 15.7% of homeowners lack insurance entirely or pay so little for it that experts say the policies wouldn’t protect them. That’s a double bind in a region where households are both less financially able to weather severe climate events but — in many cases — more likely to experience them. Under-insurance rates are higher in counties with majority-minority populations. Twenty-two percent of homeowners are uninsured in majority Native American and Native Alaskan counties, and 14% are uninsured in counties that are majority-Black.
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
data from
Property Insurance and Disaster Risk: New Evidence from Mortgage Escrow Data
Key+
doi.org/10.3386/w32579

"a new dataset to study homeowners insurance using over 74 million premiums from 2014–2024 inferred from mortgage escrow payments"

Premium increases -> lower home value
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“They won’t insure you, No one will buy from you. You’re kind of stuck where you are.” - Sandra Rojas, A fifth-generation resident of Lafitte, La., a small coastal community
hockeysticks of insurance rates showing increases from 1k->3k
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
"Through the adoption of scenario analysis, climate disclosure standards and transition planning, financial institutions can factor climate and nature-related risks into the strategies and operations, and enable a ... transition towards a sustainable economy"

www.ngfs.net/en/publicati...
NGFS Declaration on the Economic Cost of Climate Inaction | Network for Greening the Financial System
www.ngfs.net
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
Network of Central Banks and
Supervisors for Greening the Financial System

Declaration on the
Economic Cost of Climate Inaction
www.ngfs.net/en/publicati...
NGFS Declaration on the Economic Cost of Climate Inaction | Network for Greening the Financial System
www.ngfs.net
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
NGFS Declaration on the Economic Cost of Climate Inaction
www.ngfs.net/en/press-rel...

"Warns that delayed action could halve the effectiveness of transition efforts, with transition costs rising from 0.5% to 1.3% of global GDP by 2030 in the case of a three-year delay."
NGFS Issues Declaration on the Economic Cost of Climate Inaction at COP30 | Network for Greening the Financial System
Today, the Network of central banks and supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) releases its Declaration on the Economic Cost of Climate Inaction on the occasion of the 30th United Nation...
www.ngfs.net
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
The Character of Chinese Computing
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

review of
Thomas S. Mullaney’s “The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age.”
direct.mit.edu/books/book/5...

his sequel to
"The Chinese Typewriter: A History"
The Character of Chinese Computing | Los Angeles Review of Books
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham reviews Thomas S. Mullaney’s “The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age.”
lareviewofbooks.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
resiliencesci.bsky.social
Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales
Trepel+
doi.org/10.1111/1365...

higher herbivore intensity ->
higher total plant species richness
higher functional redundancy

strongest effects at largest scale
Plant functional redundancy increased significantly with herbivore visitation at all scales (Figure 3; Table S3). In contrast, there was no significant relationship between herbivore-related variables and plant functional richness (Figure 3; Table S3). Similar to plant taxonomic diversity, the effect direction of herbivore-related variables on plant functional diversity remained consistent across scales (Figure 3; Table S3).
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM