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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 26m

We need more and better collaborations to act within Planetary Boundaries.

At PwC’s Finansdagen 2025, our Deputy Director, Lisen Schultz, highlighted the urgent need for businesses and policymakers to act for a stable climate and healthy ecosystems.

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 5h

Shifts in the food system can help Sweden meet its environmental goals.

A new study shows that Sweden can reach carbon neutrality by 2045 by adjusting diets, phasing out fossil fuels across the food chain, and reducing food waste.

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 4d

Centre partner Axfoundation has developed a Nordic two-day menu inspired by the EAT-Lancet report, illustrating how we can eat sustainably — close to today’s habits, yet in balance with the planet. The pictures show the menu for day 1.

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Oatmeal with apples, applesauce, hazelnuts and oat milk

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 5d

EAT-Lancet: the Planetary Health Diet can save millions of lives

Watch this video with report contributors Line Gordon, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen and Anne Charlotte Bunge.

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 5d

New EAT-Lancet warns: food systems breach Planetary Boundaries.

“EAT-Lancet 2025 places justice at the centre, not only as a goal but also as a vital part of enabling transformation,” says Centre Director Line Gordon, one of the report’s lead authors.

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The figure shows how much global food systems contribute to pressures on all nine planetary boundaries.

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 6d

Human development and sustainability: friends or foes?

Join us on 21 October for a Stockholm seminar exploring human development in the face of today’s global sustainability challenges, featuring Pedro Conceição, Director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP: su.bmc.nu/Modules/Even...

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 6d

A new report shows how networks of biosphere reserves can play a vital role in achieving global biodiversity targets. The report draws on insights from the Man and the Biosphere Programme, combined with global data analysis and a review of literature.
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New report highlights Biosphere Reserves as key contributors to Global Biodiversity Targets

In December 2022, 196 parties adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), a landmark agreement under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity designed to tackle the global natur...

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 7d

Join the live launch of EAT Lancet on Friday, 3 October!

We’re proud to be part of the upcoming launch of the EAT Lancet Commission, a major scientific update to one of the most influential food systems reports of the past decade.

Register now: bit.ly/3Kg9SW8

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 8d

Join PLATE as a communications officer, a new research centre hosted by Stockholm Resilience Centre.

PLATE focuses on the food service sector and its role in Sweden’s preparedness, sustainability and competitiveness.

Learn more and apply 15 Octobre 2025. su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 9d

Chinese coastal development may drive flood risk more than global sea-level rise.

A new Nature study shows that local coastal policies will ultimately shape who and what is exposed, and how much the land sinks.

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 11d

📢 Launch alert!

The new EAT-Lancet report will be launched on 3 October, featuring insights from five of our Centre researchers.✨

Until then, revisit the first report: eatforum.org/eat-lancet-c...

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 12d

The hype around factory made ’future foods’ risks diverting attention from more immediate, scalable and sustainable solutions. That is the message of Charlotte Bunge’s new thesis on Food Tech in the Swedish food system. Learn more: www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 13d

Planetary boundaries gain global traction.

The Planetary Health Check shows 7 of 9 boundaries breached, but action is growing across governments, cities, business and finance. Co-authors Albert Norström and Tiina Häyhä highlight emerging practices.

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The 2025 update to the Planetary boundaries illustration.

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 13d

Rising seas due to climate change threaten China’s rapidly developing coasts. However coastal policy decisions will shape who and what is exposed to those rising seas and how much the land sinks, a new study shows. 🌊🧍@resiliencesci.bsky.social
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Local decisions in China affect coastal flood exposure more than global sea-level rise

Rising seas due to climate change threaten China’s rapidly developing coasts. However coastal policy decisions will shape who and what is exposed to those rising seas and how much the land sinks, a ne...

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 13d

MAJOR UPDATE: Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification also in the danger zone.

Read the new Planetary Healthcheck 2025 report here: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 15d

When finance ignores nature, it drives ecosystem loss and systemic risks. But guided by ecological realities, it can help safeguard the life-support systems we all depend on. A new iScience review shows how systems thinking can align capital with ecology: www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 20d

🐺 Wolves and other large carnivore species are making a comeback in Europe.
Yet current conservation policies are still geared toward protecting species on the brink of extinction. This no longer reflects reality, argue researchers in a new commentary. www.stockholmresilience.org/5.1a496cd119...

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 20d

🎓✨ Join Anne Charlotte Bunge’s PhD defence!

In her thesis, Anne Charlotte explores Food Tech in Sweden’s food system.

📅 Date: 26 September 2025
🕐 Time: 13:00 CEST
📍 On site: Hörsal 5, Hus 2, Campus Albano, Stockholm
💻 Or join online: stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/64290277401

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 22d

Overfishing persists not for lack of rules, but because power, governance, and cooperation shape how they’re applied. Frida Bengtsson’s doctoral thesis shows that the way out of overfishing is trust, transparency, and political will. www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 22d

80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear threats are a present actuality. This summer, Kronos Quartet’s Hard Rain showed how music and science together can help us feel what’s at stake.

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 26d

The world’s largest ocean-based companies fail to disclose the full damage their operations cause to the seas, shows a new global study published in Nature Sustainability.

Read the report here: www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 28d

Join our Stockholm Seminar with Professor Laurens Klerkx to explore how mission-driven agrifood innovation (eco)systems are shaping the future of sustainable food.

📅 25 September 2025
🕚 11:00 – 12:00 CEST
📍 On site in or online

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · Sep 5

🎓✨ Join Frida Bengtsson’s PhD defence!

In her thesis, Frida explores how voluntary collective action and stewardship can help shape more sustainable fisheries governance.

📅 16 Sept 2025
🕐 13:00 CEST
📍 Hörsal 2, Hus 2, Campus Albano, Stockholm
💻 Or online: stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/69192718789

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · Sep 4

🌍🎭 Explore how arts & sustainability research connect!

📅 9/9 – Panel at our offices on how the arts can transform conflicts, democratise research, and spark imagination and care.
📅 10/9 – Full screening of the play Unruly at Zita cinema (fully booked, waitlist open).

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · Sep 1

What happens when farmers, environmentalists, municipalities, regional authorities, and the cultural sector sit down together to tackle a shared sustainability problem? 🤔💡
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