Dr. Helen Kopnina
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Dr. Helen Kopnina
@helenkopnina.bsky.social
#Sustainability scholar @northumbriauni.bsky.social #EnvironmentalEducation #SustainableBusiness #Biodiversity #Animals #Climate Wary of polarization, viral slogans & echo chambers https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=pE0rWdgAAAAJ&hl=nl
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has become influential in biodiversity conservation. Its …
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November 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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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October 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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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October 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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…
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September 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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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September 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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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September 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM