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.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, driven by artificial intelligence, machine learning and the Internet of Things, will transform everyone’s lives. We need to ensure this transformation is...
Earth’s climate has been remarkably stable since before the dawn of civilization. This stability is at risk. The world needs to act fast.
Humanity has pushed Earth and ourselves to the brink of destruction - but there is growing evidence that we are beginning to head in the right direction.
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 global economy treats the stability of Earth as a luxury good. This is a fundamental flaw that threatens humanity. It must change.
2015 was the hottest year on record beating the previous record holder – 2014. Already, meteorologists predict 2016 may beat 2015.
Our generation has a unique opportunity. If we set our minds to it, we could be the first in human history to leave our children nothing: no greenhouse-gas emissions, no poverty, and no b...
This is part of a series on the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Size now matters: in a single human lifetime we have becom...
The mood in Paris this week as two thousand climate scientists gathered ahead of the United Nations climate summit later this year has been cautiously optimistic. While the window of oppo...
Pope Francis’s just-released encyclical on the environment sends a powerful message not just to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, but to the rest of the global population as well. Firmly...
The future of humanity will depend on mastering a balancing act. The challenge will be to provide for the needs of more than ten billion people while safeguarding our planetary life-suppo...
On April 22, the world will mark the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, established in 1970 to draw attention to environmental challenges. Never have those challenges been greater or more urg...
What we eat determines our health. It also decides the health of our planet. In the newly proposed Dietary Guidelines, the US is finally moving towards acknowledging the fundamental conne...
Understanding global risks in our current, increasingly turbulent world is necessary if we are to forge a path towards resilient economic development. We tend to forget, or ignore, that h...
Comprender los desafíos globales en nuestro cada vez más turbulento mundo actual es necesario si deseamos forjar un sendero hacia un desarrollo económico resiliente. Tendemos a olvidar, o...
