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Researcher on global sustainability and freshwater resources. Fifteen years' experience in applied research on water and agricultural development in Africa. Executive Director: Stockholm Resilience Centre; Stockholm Environment Institute. Professor of Natural Resource Management, Stockholm University. Co-Chair, international transition process to develop a new global initiative on Earth system research for global sustainability, co-designed by a new alliance for science (made up of the International Council for Science and others), business, Belmont Forum and UN agencies. Recipient of award: Swede of the year (2009) for work on communicating climate science to decision-makers.

Últimos Artículos

Climate Change

Pour la neutralité carbone

POTSDAM – Le sommet du G20 se tient cette semaine à Osaka. Le secrétaire général de l'ONU, Antonio Guterres, y prendra la parole avant de se rendre à Abou Dhabi pour finaliser l'organisat...

26 jun 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

Mettre un terme à l'addiction au charbon en Allemagne

BERLIN – L'Allemagne est sur le point de mettre un terme à son addiction au charbon. L'année dernière, le gouvernement a créé une « commission charbon » de 28 membres - comprenant des sci...

11 feb 2019

Technological Transformation

Digital technology can cut global emissions by 15%. Here’s how

The time for action is now.

15 ene 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

The Fourth Industrial Revolution can lead us to a zero-carbon future - if we act now

I can’t give you a precise date, but some time in the past two years the world crossed a threshold and incremental action on climate change was off the menu. To keep temperatures below 2°...

19 ene 2018

Environment and Natural Resource Security

We have the tools to fight climate change. It’s time to start using them

Stepping in to the COP23 climate talks in Bonn, Germany, is like wandering through an alternative reality. At no point in these vast cavernous rooms are you confronted with the sheer urge...

17 nov 2017

Environment and Natural Resource Security

We can still rescue this planet from climate change. Here's how

I and my colleagues have spent a decade or more trying to get a handle on tipping points in complex systems. A tipping point is when something changes rapidly to a new state - like water ...

19 sep 2017

Oceans

The seafood industry must pull our oceans back from the brink

The phrases a drop in the ocean or plenty more fish in the sea expose a worldview of the oceans as an infinite, resilient resource. This needs updating. The oceans are finite, fragile and...

15 jun 2017

Environment and Natural Resource Security

5 reasons why the economy is failing the environment, and humanity

The world has entered the Anthropocene. We are today a "big world on a small planet" where the economy exerts phenomenal pressure on Earth. There is no free natural capital left. All rema...

10 ene 2017