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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 3d

The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting

Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 3d

Great reflection, only concern is 'resilience over fragility' as a solution as serves anthropocentric interests (eg climate adaptation) but disregard the fragility of nature, which can be less resilient to the land conversion for agriculture, see also www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting

Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 3d

Positive development if alternative protein can aid natural systems, which can be less resilient to the onslaught of activity like land conversion for agriculture, see also www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting

Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 7d

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91

The primatologist was a

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 7d

See also an article on degrowth in education: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

From Pseudo to Genuine Sustainability Education: Ecopedagogy and Degrowth in Business Studies Courses | Australian Journal of Environmental Education | Cambridge Core

From Pseudo to Genuine Sustainability Education: Ecopedagogy and Degrowth in Business Studies Courses - Volume 40 Issue 3

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 7d

Perhaps of interest: some reflections on degrowth in education: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

From Pseudo to Genuine Sustainability Education: Ecopedagogy and Degrowth in Business Studies Courses | Australian Journal of Environmental Education | Cambridge Core

From Pseudo to Genuine Sustainability Education: Ecopedagogy and Degrowth in Business Studies Courses - Volume 40 Issue 3

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 16d

Biodiversity is ESG’s blind spot. 🌱 TNFD offers a path, but only robust metrics—extinction risk, habitat recovery, species protection—can turn disclosure into real ecological action. 🌍🦋 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting

Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 16d

Perhaps we can go beyond education fucused on sustaining industrial & economic development, which is unsustainable? www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Ways forward: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... or link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... or bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Education for the future? Critical evaluation of education for sustainable development goals

Building on the Millennium Development Goals, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG) were established. Despite the willingness of many ed...

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 16d

Perhaps we can go beyond eductaion sustaining industrial & economic development, which is unsustainable? www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Ways forward: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... or link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... or bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Education for the future? Critical evaluation of education for sustainable development goals

Building on the Millennium Development Goals, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG) were established. Despite the willingness of many ed...

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Jamie Woodhouse @jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social · 16d

A #OneHealth approach committed to the health of our planet, non-human animals and human animals is powerful.

A #OneHealth approach that is only concerned with non-human animal "health" so we human animals can continue to safely exploit them, has made a terrible error.

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 16d

We often blame “inequality” alone for hunger, but let’s not ignore scale: 8 billion apex predators, shape ecosystems whether rich or poor, vegans less so in terms of land use. Food security isn’t just yields but also numbers & diet academic.oup.com/oocc/article...

Solving climate change requires changing our food systems

Abstract. Humanity is facing an important existential threat—irreversible climate change caused by human activity. Until recently, most of the proposals to

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 20d

The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting

Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 20d

Trees cannot keep up with #climatechange 🌍

www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/ama...

Scientists issue warning after discovering concerning phenomenon in trees: 'Simply not keeping up'

A new report is revealing troubling news about the Amazon forests and their ability to adapt to our changing climate.

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 20d

Careful not to perpetuate the myth of absolute decoupling, there is also a crucial difference between organic (bio) and technical cycles, for example, see this work on greenwashing in the food industry that pretends to be circular www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Does waste equal food? | 3 | Examining the feasibility of circular eco

This chapter discusses closed-loop systems Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) and circular economy, exposing greenwashing practices but also underlining hopeful strategies

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Reposted by Dr. Helen Kopnina

The Ecological Citizen @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social · Aug 26

🌍 "Rewilding is as much about people as it is about nature and wildlife." 🫂

#RewildingSuccesses has published its second interview!
#StoriesFromTheField #Rewilding #RewildingHope

rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/2025/08/26/s...

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Stories from the Field: an interview with May and Yasmine (Global Rewilding Alliance)

We talk with May Scott and Yasmine Grignard from the Global Rewilding Alliance.

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The Ecological Citizen @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social · 21d

🗣️ NEW TO THE ECOLOGICAL CITIZEN YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Ecocentric Stories

🧪 Preservation by Joe Gray 👩‍🔬
youtube.com/watch?v=Rfoc...

#EcologicalLiterature #SpeculativeFiction #Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Extinction

Preservation - An Ecocentric Story

YouTube video by The Ecological Citizen

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 21d

Indeed, as land conversion for agriculture is the largest cause of biodiversity loss, and methane contributes to global warming, radical changes in food production are needed. See new article, Solving climate change requires changing our food systems academic.oup.com/oocc/article...

Solving climate change requires changing our food systems

Abstract. Humanity is facing an important existential threat—irreversible climate change caused by human activity. Until recently, most of the proposals to

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 22d

Perhaps next step could be ecocentric biodiversity finance considering the scale of global ecosystem decline www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting

Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 23d

“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realise they were the big things”
- Kurt Vonnegut

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 23d

See a reflection on how the R hierarcy of #circulareconomy can be supplemented by the R of #Regeneration and #Rewilding: ojs.unito.it/index.php/vi...

Bridging ESG and the Circular Economy: Advancing corporate sustainability through the updated R-Hierarchy and Circularity Scoring Model | Visions for Sustainability

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 28d

see related paper: The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting

Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

www.sciencedirect.com

Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 29d

Commodification of forests, the good and the bad www.jstor.org/stable/26320...

Commodification of natural resources and forest ecosystem services on JSTOR

HELEN KOPNINA ¹², Commodification of natural resources and forest ecosystem services, Environmental Conservation, Vol. 44, No. 1, Thematic section. Forest Ecosystem Services (MARCH 2017), pp. 24-33

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 29d

By fostering interdisciplinary research, the special issue aims to offer ways for managers to upskill their sustainability leadership (SL). It will do this by exploring how sustainability leadership capacity can be developed by managers through addressing the three interrelated knowledge gaps

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 29d

Call for Papers for the Special Issue in Journal of Management Development: Developing Management Capability in Sustainability Leadership www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...

Developing Management Capability in Sustainability Leadership

This Special Issue addresses the research question: How can the development of sustainability leadership among managers create a virtuous cycle for a viable future? We explore how effective leadership...

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · Sep 7

Some people have also left the party because of some things that have been recently said