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General news | 2025-11-06

COP30: “Science shows that we can still have a safe landing below 1.5 °C”

A team of researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre will attend COP30 in Belém – to engage in dialogues and highlight new scientific insights - including the flagship report: “Resilience Science Must-Knows”.

Research story | 2025-11-04

“Resilience Science Must-Knows”: Landmark report shows how decision-makers can manage global crises

As the world approaches critical tipping points, a comprehensive global scientific report shows that resilience — the ability to live and develop with change and crises — must now be placed at the heart of global decision-making.

General news | 2025-09-24

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached

A major new scientific review, “Planetary Health Check 2025”, shows that seven of nine planetary boundaries have now been exceeded. For the first time, this also includes the boundary for ocean acidification. This means that several of Earth’s life-supporting systems risk crossing critical thresholds, with severe consequences for both ecosystems and societies.

Research story | 2025-06-17

Introducing SocSES: A platform for impactful social-ecological research

Over 40 researchers have come together to launch a vibrant new home for an expanding community of sustainability researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and students across the planet. The Society for Social-Ecological Systems, SocSES, is introduced in a new paper in the journal Ecology and Society .

General news | 2025-04-04

Investing in nature for human prosperity

Investments play a crucial role in how deforestation and the destruction of nature can be reversed. "By far the biggest challenge is that humans continue to invest far more in sectors and activities that destroy nature, than in activities that can revert that destruction," says Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, the pioneer behind Costa Rica’s remarkable sustainability transition.

General news | 2024-11-14

21 Centre researchers ranked among top 2% most cited scientists globally

21 of Stockholm Resilience Centre’s researchers are listed among 2% most cited scientists in their field in 2024, according to the new Elsevier Data Repository.

Research news | 2023-12-08

Five key actions to fight the food crisis

A new science brief from Stockholm Resilience Centre and Global Resilience Partnership launched during COP28 discusses why the current food crisis has escalated so quickly up to global proportions. The researchers list five key actions for policy-makers to address.

Research news | 2023-08-18

How ocean science can contribute to peace

In a world of conflict, can the ocean be a place of peace? Yes, says a new review paper, and concludes that the UN Ocean Decade has an important role to play

Research news | 2023-05-11

Building back better: Resilience means more than bouncing back

Adapting, transforming and creating new ways of functioning as a society: This is how reshaping a resilient future in the aftermath of a shock should look like, argue researchers

Research news | 2023-05-03

Time to put ocean sand on the global sustainability agenda

Sand is a key foundation of society, yet on the ocean sustainability front, it remains a blind spot, says new report

Research news | 2023-01-30

Policymakers need to work more closely with researchers to fight the global food crisis

We are facing the worst food crisis in modern history – Sweden and the EU need to take action to shift how food is produced and consumed. That was the message from researchers to policymakers during a high-level meeting for the Swedish government at Stockholm Resilience Centre

Research news | 2022-12-16

Lack of understanding of ocean risks can worsen inequities

Ocean-related risks are not well understood in the region which might be hardest hit by them, Sub-Saharan Africa, concludes new review

Research news | 2022-05-27

World stumbling into a new era of risk, concludes climate security report

New report illustrates the complex ways that the climate and security crises are starting to interact around the world

Research news | 2022-05-20

Relaunch of hub on environment, climate and security

Swedish government launches second phase of the Stockholm Hub on Environment, Climate and Security, building knowledge on how climate and environmental change lead to human insecurities

Research news | 2022-03-22

Why ecosystem services should be considered in groups, not individually

Five reasons why a ‘bundles’ approach can improve our understanding of nature’s services to humans

Research news | 2021-12-02

Pushing the frontiers of social-ecological resilience

A new paper shows how resilience thinking has evolved further over the past 15 years, and gives three examples of this

Research news | 2021-10-20

Why the blue economy is at a tipping point

A sustainable and equitable ocean economy is within reach. But risks of the opposite loom, according to three reports commissioned by the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance

Research news | 2021-08-26

Why local realities are crucial to global environmental assessments

Locally, bottom-up-inspired futures are missing from global environmental assessments. A new method tested on the UN’s Global Environment Outlook 6 hopes to change this

Research news | 2021-08-18

Want peace and security? Start by fixing the global food system

Ahead of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit researchers push for solutions that contribute to sustainable and just food system transformations

Research news | 2021-06-02

Why land-use intensity can cause trade-offs among ecosystem services

Comparing across cases can improve ability to predict how land use alters ecosystem service relationships

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