Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%. This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. www.unep.org/resources/em... 1/

Integrating Multi-Level Sustainability and Ecosystem Integrity for Adaptive Scenario Planning in China Wang+ doi.org/10.1029/2025... using an adaptive approach can produce better policies that reconcile conflicting policy goals of different levels of government

2 new jobs working with our FinBio.org project @sthlmresilience.bsky.social Social-ecological systems and Natural capital Postdoctoral fellow su.varbi.com/what:job/job... RA, full-time 12 months: su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Resilience Science Must-Knows Nine essential insights from global resilience science to help decision-makers navigate a turbulent world. Developed in dialogue with decision makers, and synthesised by an international team of resilience researchers www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

break down in people - bear relations in Japan www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w... "Experts say the surge in attacks is partly the result of climate change...[]and] Japan’s population decline has also contributed to the problem, with bears venturing into rural areas that were once full of people"

Happy, honored, humbled by this: www.volvogroup.com/en/news-and-... Thanks 2 all friends, family, colleagues, who have supported me along the way, esp #ErikMConway & @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @harvard.edu @harvardhistsci.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social

Intriguing overview of changing ecosystem function at a continental scale. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The climate negotiations must be guided by science. This year’s “10 New Insights in Climate Science” report urges action over promises, warning that the world can no longer afford delays. Learn more: www.stockholmresilience.org/5.226014ea19...

Nature Futures Framework scenarios reveal contrasting landscape connectivity for European mammal translocations Ascensão+ doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... analyzing connectivity using circuitscape on Dou+ (doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...) land-use scenarios

Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined Rosenberg+ doi.org/10.1038/s415... "combined biomass movement of all wild birds, land arthropods and wild land mammals" is 1/6 of humans walking 1/40th all the biomass movement of humans

" biomass of domesticated poultry (≈0.005 Gt C, dominated by chickens) is about threefold higher than that of wild birds (≈0.002 Gt C)" The biomass distribution on Earth Bar-on+ doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

H5N1 risk amplified as wild and domestic animals being in close contact as birds migrate www.dw.com/en/h5n1-bird... poultry -> wild birds -> poultry “well over” 1,000 dead cranes have been found “in a short period of time" at a major resting place in Linum, Germany. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRJe...

Assessing the exposure of buildings to long-term sea level rise across the Global South Willard-Stepan+ doi.org/10.1038/s429... "a first-order assessment of the exposure of buildings to sea level rise from satellite observation in Africa, Southeast Asia, and South and Central America."

Hurricane Melissa (2025) and Climate Change Preliminary analysis warmer water 500-700X more likely due to climate change increasing its potential damages by up to 50%. www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...

🌿 Day 1 of our Resilience Science and Climate Change short course Yesterday, the cohort had two sessions, focussing on: 🌿 key concepts of social-ecological resilience, presented by @stevelade.bsky.social 🌿 using futures approaches to support resilience, presented by @resiliencesci.bsky.social

The progression of Trump's tariffs on.ft.com/47DR9Nv "'Actual trade' rate is customs duty revenue as a % of value of goods imported. 'Based on announced tariffs' is the estimate of the long-run effective tariff rate based on current announced policy, after accounting for consumption shifts"

"Melissa grew from a tropical storm into a powerful Category 4 hurricane this weekend, it became the fourth of this year’s five Atlantic hurricanes to undergo what hurricane experts call “rapid intensification" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/w... earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...

"Zero emission" construction vaxer.stockholm/en/projects/... "in eastern Södermalm, where SL’s bus depot used to be located...contractor PEAB and sub-contractors are using electric excavators, electric trucks and a temporary battery solution for energy storage" www.mitti.se/nyheter/park...

Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity University of Gothenburg, Sweden academicpositions.com/ad/universit... "internationally recognised and well-renowned scientist who wants to engage in leading the move towards a sustainable future" w/ supporting funding for PhDs and postdocs

Trump administration tells Colorado wolves must come from U.S. Rockies states, not Canada apnews.com/article/colo...

Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPEN UBC, Vancouver, Canada biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... "The UBC Biodiversity Research Centre comprises over 100 faculty members with interests in ecology, evolution, systematics, biodiversity, and conservation"

Join us for a biospherefutures.net webinar on #RadicalOceanFutures a project that blends scientific research with artistic practice to explore diverse and imaginative futures for the ocean and the planet. November 5 at 9 AM EST / 3 PM CET register here: stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The EU will not now delay the introduction of its deforestation law which is a bit of good news given the war on environmental protections currently underway in Brussels www.politico.eu/article/brus...

Wolves found only north of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada reduce animal-related vehicle collisions by 5 percentage points—providing an empirical quantification of quasi-option value, from Eyal G. Frank, Anouch Missirian, Dominic P. Parker, and @jenraynor.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34377

“I see the same Venn diagram of high environmental temperatures, very heavy work, and insufficient labor protections that put people’s health, and indeed their kidneys, at risk”-Jason Glaser (laislanetwork.org)

Heat Stress Is a Major Driver of India’s Kidney Disease Epidemic e360.yale.edu/features/ind... Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown etiology (CKDu) "...began to emerge more than 20 years ago among agricultural laborers in Central America and Sri Lanka and is now present in more than 35 countries"

📢 Call for Abstracts! Join us at the World Biodiversity Forum 2026 (Davos, 14–19 June) for our session “Shaping Biodiverse Futures” Explore how the Nature Futures Framework informs ##biodiversity-centric #scenarios 🌱 🗓️ Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 #WBF2026 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...

Chris is absolutely right

The nascent apocalyptic systems thriller genre can be understood as a set of rapidly evolving narrative strategies for reconciling the massive systemic problems that we face with the hope that human agency can somehow meet them.

"Some of the world’s biggest food and consumer goods companies [including Nestlé, Ferrero and commodities trader Olam Agri] have accused the European Commission of jeopardising its own green agenda by proposing to delay a landmark anti-deforestation law for a second time." on.ft.com/4htYOBl

How forest disturbances can lead to tipping points in the wood value chain. Great work coming out of the RESONATE project, led by T. Boiger and T. Stern from @uni-graz.at doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Pretty depressing end to the week, as the Trump administration gets the diplomatic thumbscrews out and forces a delay to previously agreed plans for the IMO to at least try and do something about the shipping industry's greenhouse gas emissions. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520604...

Conservation outcomes of dietary transitions across different values of nature von Jeetze+ doi.org/10.1038/s418... "Conservation across different value perspectives...depends on proactive conservation action" more than diets but costs of conservation are significantly lowered by healthier diets

Critical intervention points for European adaptation to cascading climate change impacts Auer+ doi.org/10.1038/s415... "Using stakeholder engagement and quantitative network methods, our approach facilitates the identification of common and influential cascading impact transmission patterns"

US Fed, FDIC and OCC “do not believe principles for managing climate-related financial risk are necessary” "Rescinding the principles is short-sighted and will make the financial system riskier even as climate-related financial risks grow"-M Barr dissenting Fed board member

"The climate shocks that could trigger wider market turmoil" on.ft.com/4hclUfC "...we’ve seen with the LA fires and other unexpectedly destructive disasters is that we’re already now in the territory where physical risks could be a threat to the financial system” - finance professor Patrick Bolton

Watching the livestream now: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

Outstanding laws for Nature+People www.worldfuturecouncil.org/p/living-in-... Environmental Ombudsoffice Tyrol, Austria Biodiversity Act, Bhutan Rights of Nature, Panama Biodiversity Act, South Africa Mar Menor, Spain National Environment Act, Uganda BBNJ Agreement Te Awa Tupua, New Zealand

"a Seeds of Good Anthropocenes for spiritual change projects"- @joostvervoort.bsky.social Spiritual Solutions Library case studies that "reimagine solutions that combine proven spiritual and scientific ways to bring about shared flourishing for people and the planet." fetzer.org/spiritual-so...

PhD course “Transformative Research for Sustainability Challenges” run the 5th time at Wageningen University April 20 – May 1, 2026. Registrations are now open — apply by October 31! There are 3 scholarships available www.wur.nl/en/activity/...

Dramatically reduced sustainability reporting in EU "CSRD’s 1,000 employee ... €450 million revenue threshold" "CSDDD to cover only companies with 5,000 employees and more than €1.5 billion in revenues" www.esgtoday.com/eu-parliamen...

Four items by Mokyr: the first is a topic already recognised by the Nobel, but the other three are less well known areas of Mokyr: his study of the Irish famine, his explanation of why the Dutch Republic was not the first, and his artisan theory of the Industrial Revolution.

A new study with Centre researchers Malin Jonell and Therese Lindahl shows that structural level interventions for greener diets and food waste, like more vegetarian options or smaller portion sizes, can have more lasting impact than awareness campaigns. www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

Talking Nature Positive Cities and preview of our launch for the NATURA Global Roadmap for Urban Nature-based Solutions tomorrow at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. Join us if you are in-person or registered online. Exciting work ahead! iucncongress2025.org/programme/na...

High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC) www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar... Reviewing recent evidence of AMOC weakening

Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"If asked what I’ve learned about international economics over the past dozen years or so that really changed by views, it would be just how large a role tax avoidance by multinational corporations plays in distorting international statistics" -Paul Krugman paulkrugman.substack.com/p/leprechaun...

Swedish railway SJ will stop running its popular night trains to Berlin by August 31, 2026 due to reductions in funding by current Swedish government jarnvagar.nu/sj-staller-i...

Day two of the World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature saw participants engaging in two dialogues on #Indigenous Peoples’ direct access to finance and on reshaping inclusive financial systems for #biodiversity and #climate Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/world-summit... #IUCNcongress

What do Americans die from, and what is reported on? ourworldindata.org/does-the-new... "Heart disease and cancer accounted for 56% of deaths but received just 7% of the coverage...Homicides received 43 times more coverage than their share of deaths; terrorism received over 18,000 times more."