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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 · Jul 4

A systems approach to sustainable finance:
Actors, influence mechanisms, and potentially
virtuous cycles of sustainability
Crona+
doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112785

how financial sector structures and actors influence or block sustainability outcomes

new paper from finbio.org

Figure 1 A systems view of the financial sector and an illustration of virtuous cycles (A) A map of the financial actors reviewed and how they are connected through their main mechanisms of influence, outlined in detail in Table 1. (B–F) Five reinforcing feedbacks that could connect and reinforce the effects of sustainable investment strategies pursued by individual financial sector actors. Each reinforcing feedback (virtuous cycle) is illustrated as a set of green arrows indicating how actors influence and potentially reinforce each other’s capacity to deliver sustainable outcomes.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 8h

I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous.
www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...

Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · 3h

Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery.
Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action.

👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 8h

"A coalition of willing states can, and should, quickly launch an alternative negotiating process for the global plastics treaty"

UN politics won’t deliver an ambitious plastics treaty
Dauvergne+
doi.org/10.1126/science.aec1353

UN politics won’t deliver an ambitious plastics treaty

Negotiators again failed to finalize the text for a global plastics treaty in Geneva in August 2025. The talks exposed two harsh truths. Consensus on the treaty text, where no state formally objects, ...

doi.org

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 11h

Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
www.unepfi.org/net-zero-all...

discussions on
+establishment of a robust Target Setting Protocol
+climate adaptation and resilience,
+growth in geographical regions, currently underrepresented in the Alliance.

www.unepfi.org/industries/n...

Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance exploring options for future focus after successful AGM

Asset owners explored options for the future focus of the NZAOA, such as climate adaptation and resilience...

www.unepfi.org

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 11h

Net-Zero Asset Owners Alliance continues

"Pension fund managers and other long-term asset owners have a fiduciary responsibility to protect the interests of beneficiaries decades into the future — not least by acting against long-term climate risks."

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Why pension funds are still pushing for climate action

Long-term asset owners have bucked the financial sector trend of retreat on green goals

on.ft.com

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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 8d

Redefine how the world measures progress!
🌍🧑‍🌾🌽🌎🌴🐬🌏🚵‍♀️🍄🌐👍

Join the Global Expert Consultation to develop
The Nature Relationship Index (NRI) @undp.org

<15 mins to make a difference
anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
> Deadline: Oct 15, 2025
> Background: rdcu.be/etpiQ

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d

Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Vlasceanu+
dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778

"the interventions’ effectiveness was small...beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance"

Fig. 3. Marginal effects (as the difference between interventions and control) as a function of estimated preintervention belief in climate change.

Lines indicate the average effect size, with shaded regions indicating the 94% credible region. For visual clarity, regions in which the 94% credible region overlap zero are omitted from the figure. Where interventions have positive and negative effects that meet these criteria, a dashed line is used to connect these regions. The dashed vertical line indicates average belief, where effects in Fig. 1 are estimated. (A) Climate change belief, (B) policy support, (C) sharing information on social media, and (D) trees planted via the WEPT.

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d

great to hear @jbakcoleman.bsky.social talk about his (+ others) work on

Stewardship of global collective behavior
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

and industry bias by funding, and lack of disclosure in research on AI/tech impacts

Stewardship of global collective behavior | PNAS

Collective behavior provides a framework for understanding how the actions and properties of groups emerge from the way individuals generate and sh...

doi.org

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Will Allen @willallennz.bsky.social · 2d

#AF2025 (Adaptation Futures 2025) comes to Ōtautahi Christchurch next week. I’ve refreshed the climate adaptation hub on Learning for Sustainability, bringing together frameworks, MEL, collaboration, and futures resources.

🔗 learningforsustainability.net/climate-adap...

#ClimateAdaptation #MEL

Climate adaptation: frameworks, practice, and learning - learningforsustainability.net

Explore practical climate adaptation frameworks, MEL, collaboration, and futures thinking. Updated ahead of Adaptation Futures 2025 in Christchurch.

learningforsustainability.net

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 2d

The book is ''an indispensable pedagogical reference tool for students, academia and whistleblowers" with "detailed empirical, in-depth case study approach ... at the nexus of political communication, strategic influence and digital governance, beyond what was once the usual PR and propaganda."

Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 4d

Excited to read this thoughtful review by Farhat Asif (PhD) of the Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry (edited by myself and Vian Bakir), in it Dr Asif writes:
"The core idea of this book is to assess myriad aspects of the influence industry’s ecosystem... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Briant, Emma and Bakir, Vian (Eds.) (2024). Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry. London: Routledge, 415 pp - Place Branding and Public Diplomacy

Place Branding and Public Diplomacy -

link.springer.com

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 3d

County green transformation: how does gross
ecosystem product assessment promote common
prosperity?
Liu+
doi.org/10.1057/s415...

A: GEP assessment is redistributive mechanism that boosts rural incomes. It also appears to promote green innovation and more balanced development

County green transformation: how does gross ecosystem product assessment promote common prosperity? - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - County green transformation: how does gross ecosystem product assessment promote common prosperity?

doi.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 3d

A boost for integrative rethinking of resilience in water-driven transitional ecosystems
Hurtado+
doi.org/10.1093/bios...

rethinking resilience of water-driven transitional ecosystems
"characterized by experiencing periodic and reversible alternations of aquatic-terrestrial transitional states"

Figure 2. Assembly disassembly dynamics of biological covers in water-driven transitional ecosystems. Historically, biodiversity assessmentshave primarily been focused on the ability of aquatic biofilms (in light green) to resist and recover from drying, overlooking the compensatoryeffects provided by terrestrial organisms. However, during the terrestrial phase, aquatic species must acclimate or emigrate, favoring organismswith rapid life cycles and specific adaptations for survival during the terrestrial phase (biocrusts in brown). Within an integrative approach,biological covers (in blue) are a cornerstone community, embracing both biofilm and biocrust dynamic ensembles that better represent thebiodiversity changes associated with fluctuating water availability. WDTE refers to water-driven transitional ecosystem.

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 3d

"Over 89,000 electric trucks were sold in the first half of 2025, up 140% from the same period last year. China accounted for almost 80,000 of those, with sales in Europe making up most of the balance. US sales shrunk to just 200 units."

Clean Trucking Takes Off
about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 3d

Accounting for human–nature linkages in area-based conservation monitoring through social–ecological indicator bundles
Ban+
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

"identify interactions among key nodes of the system that can be a focus of monitoring...We called these indicator bundles."

An example can illustrate the indicator bundles approach. Consider understanding of recovery and maintenance of populations. An ecological indicator might be the biomass of one or more ecologically important species that were previously overfished. Recovery and conservation will be influenced by compliance with the MPA rule that prevents fishing (behavior indicator). Compliance, in turn, is influenced by fishers’ perceptions of the MPA (e.g., perceived legitimacy, an attitudes and beliefs indicator) and perceived fairness of MPA decision-making (governance indicator). These 5 indicators—biomass, compliance, perceived legitimacy, catches, and perceived fairness—form a bundle that is causally linked and could help identify why ecological recovery or positive social outcomes are or are not occurring (Figure 4a). If ecological recovery is not happening, a manager would have increased ability to identify potential causal factors by examining the outcomes of other indicators in the bundle.

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UNEP-WCMC @unepwcmc.bsky.social · 4d

Watch Narumon highlight the value of community mapping with examples from Thailand👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmsq...

#IndigenousPeoples #indigenousknowledgesystems #mapping #localcommunities #spatialdata #GIS

Event: Spotlight on Indigenous and Community-Led Biodiversity Mapping and Monitoring

YouTube video by UNEP-WCMC

www.youtube.com

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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · 6d

🧵
🔥 What must we let go of in today’s financial system?
🌍 Where can we push harder from within?
🌳 What might it mean to step outside altogether?

These were the guiding questions of a recent gathering in Wytham Woods, where 40 leaders came together to explore how finance could truly serve life.

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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 6d

Excited to see the rewrite of the OpenAlex backend now in public beta! If you use Google Scholar, Scopus, of Web of Science you should really checkout this open (source & data) alternative.

COI: I volunteer on the board of OpenAlex because they build awesome things

OpenAlex rewrite enters beta! 🎉 - OpenAlex blog

It’s a big week at OpenAlex. On Monday, we announced that OpenAlex is now our top-level brand (and retired the “OurResearch” name). Yesterday we unveiled our new logo. And today, we’re thrilled to lau...

blog.openalex.org

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty depressing no way could be found to make this work. www.businessgreen.com/news/4519905...

Net Zero Banking Alliance votes to 'cease operations immediately'

Leading banks vote to ditch the climate group's membership model and transition into operating as a 'framework initiative' that provides guidance on decarbonisation and climate risk

www.businessgreen.com

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 5d

Good thread on the genetics of horse domestication, likely by the Yamnaya

Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 6d

Just caught up on this fascinating paper in Science in August. It reports evidence of strong selective pressure from breeding of horses around 5000-3000 years ago in Central Asia. One reason it's interesting is that the selection is *really* strong... /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Selection at the GSDMC locus in horses and its implications for human mobility

Horsepower revolutionized human history through enhanced mobility, transport, and warfare. However, the suite of biological traits that reshaped horses during domestication remains unclear. We scanned...

www.science.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 5d

“We need to aim for the intelligent ruin.. All architecture becomes a ruin but we need to design things so that they can be easily reused. Working with existing buildings should be the norm.”

Adapt or die: the architects pioneering a new wave of building reuse
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Adapt or die: the architects pioneering a new wave of building reuse

Thanks to innovators and smart policy initiatives, demolition is becoming more unfashionable. But is the tide changing fast enough?

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 5d

Christine Lagarde calls for tougher rules on ‘darker corners’ of finance
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“beefing up of rules on hedge funds, private equity and credit funds to achieve a “levelling up” with banks contrasts with the approach of US regulators which are instead easing rules for lenders.”

Christine Lagarde calls for tougher rules on ‘darker corners’ of finance

ECB president wants regulation beefed up for non-banks such as hedge funds, private equity and insurers

on.ft.com

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Tobias Plieninger @plieningerlab.bsky.social · 8d

🌍 Out today in 'Nature Reviews Biodiversity': We explore landscape multifunctionality as a way to address biodiversity loss, climate change & food insecurity together. Instead of siloed fixes, multifunctional land-use integrates restoration, production & well-being.
🔗 rdcu.be/eIL2g

Addressing landscape multifunctionality in conservation and restoration

Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Multifunctional land-use systems supply multiple ecosystem services while contributing to biodiversity conservation. This Review summarizes the provision of ecosystem...

rdcu.be

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 5d

Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across terrestrial Europe
Spencer+
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

European Land Opportunity Costs of Conservation map at 1 km (EULOCC1K): an area-standardised pan-European opportunity cost map, including agriculture, forestry + urban land

Opportunity costs of conservation across terrestrial Europe. Insets show examples of opportunity costs specific to forestry, urban, pastoral, and arable land (bottom left to bottom right).

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 5d

Line Gordon director @sthlmresilience.bsky.social
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social

Presenting actions for transforming food systems

Role of justice for and in transformation

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 5d

EAT-Lancet report: 3 key takeaways

“Food systems are responsible for about one-third of human-driven greenhouse gas emissions…roughly equally partitioned between livestock and crop production, land-use change and other aspects of the food system”

www.carbonbrief.org/eat-lancet-r...

EAT-Lancet report: Three key takeaways on climate and diet change - Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief picks out three key takeaways from the EAT-Lancet Commission report on “healthy, sustainable and just food systems.”

www.carbonbrief.org

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