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.
More than 600 cities have announced measures to tackle climate change, and more than 680 of the world’s largest corporations have committed to cut greenhouse-gas emissions in line with th...
POTSDAM – Plus de 600 villes ont annoncé des mesures de lutte contre le changement climatique, et plus de 680 des plus grandes entreprises au monde se sont engagées à réduire leurs émissi...
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...
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...
The time for action is 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°...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Professor Klaus Schwab argues convincingly we are on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution - the focus for discussions in Davos this year.
