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Garry Peterson
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Professor of Environmental Science with focus on Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems at
Stockholm Resilience Centre,
Stockholm University […]

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And EAT-Lancet
identified barriers that need to be overcome to create a healthy and just food system

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01201-2
Barriers To Transformation → Insufficient political leadership → Corporate interests that block change → Weak and fragmented public demand for action Food systems cannot be just without ensuring the planetary health diet is affordable and accessible to all, and without substantially reducing transgressions of planetary boundaries
October 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Line Gordon on actions to transform the food system

From EAT-Lancet 2025

dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01201-2
The Transformation Wheel Solutions and Actions Food environment interventions
October 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Christina Hicks summing up injustice of global food system

#EAT-Lancet
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01201-2/abstract?uuid=uuid%3Ab45a6fe0-1b57-4fad-8e81-db91d40749df
Proportion of people live by in safe and just space
October 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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new paper

Framings in Indigenous futures thinking: barriers, opportunities, and innovations
Cheok+

http://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01615-1

In science & policy (e.g. IPBES) there has been increasing attention paid to Indigenous futures thinking

However […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
Figure from paper showing (a) Four framings of Indigenous futures thinking evident from the literature (Adaptation oriented, Participatory, Culturally grounded, and Indigenising), and the key ideas and science underpinning each frame. Each new framing builds upon and includes elements of the previous framing(s), leading to some conceptual overlap between frames. (b) Geographic distribution of the four framings in this review, and numbers of publications in each country
January 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Diverse and larger tree islands promote native tree diversity in oil palm landscapes
Paterno+
https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.ado1629

"Larger and more diverse plantings led to greater recruited tree diversity in terms of, not just species, but also […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
Fig. 3. Experimental effects on local diversity of recruiting woody species.
November 15, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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Business-as-usual trends will largely miss 2030 global conservation targets.
Palomo+

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02085-6

world is not on track to meet conservation targets by 2030:
protect 30% of terrestrial and marine areas
halt and reverse forest […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
November 12, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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Peak population may be coming sooner than we think
https://on.ft.com/4himKXW

In Latin America, "...the official birth tallies in country after country are falling far short of forecasts.

Last year in Colombia there were 510,000 births, a 22 per cent […]

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Latin American birth rates are falling fast, in some cases running below the UN’s low-fertility scenario Total fertility rate*, projections vs actual data from latin america
October 25, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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Jane Lubchenco from US from US White House and former head of NOAA on some of ways Beijer institute has contributed to US policy
October 22, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Carl Folke director of Beijer Institute on its 50 years of work connecting research on people and nature
October 22, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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Great talks to celebrate 50 years of Beijer Institute at Swedish Royal Academy of Science

Below J Rockström on the Earth System in the Anthropocene
Global temperatures
October 22, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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FT on Nature Positive

The new corporate green goal: being ‘nature positive’
https://on.ft.com/3Ug68pQ

Need for action but how to manage risks of 'greenwashing'
not real anything new, but implicitly highlights the need not just for useful metrics, but for theory based metrics.
growth in press releases mentioning nature positive
October 21, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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African futures: a review of scenarios for Indigenous and local people and nature in Africa
Chibwe+
https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15322-290332
October 11, 2024 at 8:29 AM
resiliencesci.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
"full permafrost thaw may lead to a 30–100% increase in the migration rates of Arctic rivers."

Permafrost slows Arctic riverbank erosion
Geyman+
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07978-w

regime shift
https://www.regimeshifts.org/item/403-river-channel-position
figure from paper showing spatial observations of river meanders
October 11, 2024 at 8:20 AM
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The true scale of Canada's quietly devastating wildfire season, in 4 charts
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/wildfires-2024-charts-1.7341341

"The 2024 season is consistent with what wildfire scientists have observed over the past half-century — an increase […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
Dry, hot weather again made wildfires more likely The Fire Weather Index (FWI) measures the dryness of the forest, along with temperature, humidity, level of precipitation and wind speed.
October 4, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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A tale of many cities: Mapping social infrastructure and social capital across the United States Frase+
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102195

Paper compares
Google map data from 25 urban centers in the USA
against census-tract level Social […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
Rate of Social Infrastructure across 25 Major Cities.
September 30, 2024 at 5:29 PM
resiliencesci.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
"financial secrecy...enables banks and fossil fuel companies to obscure the true scale of their fossil fuel financing "

How “greenlaundering” conceals the full scale of fossil fuel financing
https://taxjustice.net/2024/09/11/how-greenlaundering-conceals-the-full-scale-of-fossil-fuel-financing/
Figure 3: The use of secrecy jurisdictions to channel Aramco’s financing
September 16, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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Wildfires sweep Amazon as Brazil suffers worst drought on record
https://on.ft.com/3ZpIXg0

“A consequence of deforestation of the Amazon is that the replenishment of water and humidity in the atmosphere has been reduced...This results in diminished rainfall […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
Graph of burnt area
September 16, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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"...innovative digital companies are generally failing to scale up in Europe and attract finance, reflected in a huge gap in later-stage financing between
the EU and the US.

In fact, there is no EU company with a market capitalisation over EUR 100 billion […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
Venture capital of EU vs. USA
September 12, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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The future of European competitiveness
https://commission.europa.eu/document/97e481fd-2dc3-412d-be4c-f152a8232961_en

"If Europe cannot become more productive, we will be forced to choose. We will not be able to become, at once, a
leader in new technologies […]

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graph of EU/USA productivity
September 12, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations
Gupta+
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00042-100042-1)

"Promoting a healthy planet for all requires an […]

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Figure 1 Visualisation of the concept of the safe and just corridor. AUthors quantified eight safe and just ESBs, indicating the maximum pressure that can be exerted on that domain that is both safe and just for people and the planet. These ESBs form the ceiling of a safe and just corridor, for which the base is the level of pressure that would be exerted on the Earth system to ensure universal provision of minimum access to food, water, energy, and infrastructure. ESB=Earth-system boundary.
September 12, 2024 at 7:25 AM
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Strong regional trends in extreme weather over the next two decades under high- and low-emissions pathways
Iles+
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01511-4

Global warming is rapidly shifting climate conditions away from what societies and ecosystems are […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
Fig. 3: Spatial patterns of near-term joint rates of change in extremes, and their components.
September 10, 2024 at 8:01 AM
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comment in Nature
"No basis for claim that 80% of biodiversity is found in Indigenous territories: A much-cited statistic about how much of the world’s biodiversity is under Indigenous stewardship is unsupported — and could harm the cause it is meant to […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
figure showing global % of Indigenous lands
September 5, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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Diversity in global environmental scenario sets
Carlsen+
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102839

"The research presented here raises important questions about the ‘optimal’ number of scenarios to include in a scenaro set. Of course, what is optimal […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
future cone with diversity
August 29, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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The uninsurable world: rethinking how to cover for climate damage

https://on.ft.com/3XcM6OY

"...the worldwide patchwork of last-resort insurance now provided by government schemes alone will not be sufficient. “A lot of what we have already . . . hasn’t grown up to fix the problem we’re in"
graph of increasing number of big insured losses
August 22, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Integrating local ecological knowledge and remote sensing reveals patterns and drivers of forest cover change: North Korea as a case study
Elves-Powell+
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-024-02254-z

from 1986-2021
"North Korea experienced high, but uneven […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
Forest cover loss estimations between 2001 and 2021 for North Korea. Based on data from Hansen et al. (2013). Error bars represent one standard deviation for each period
August 22, 2024 at 9:25 AM