Research story | 2024-06-19

Basic income could solve global poverty and stop environmental destruction, study finds

Providing a basic income could boost global gross domestic product (GDP) by $US163 trillion while acting to curb environmental degradation, UBC research has found.

General news | 2024-04-18

Centre research listed among top ten of most cited papers in policy

Three scientific works with heavy involvement from the Stockholm Resilience Centre have been included on a list of the ten most cited non-economics papers in policy documents by Nature

Research in short | 2024-03-18

Science-based targets can mean change within the system – or involve challenging it

Is it possible to fundamentally transform a system while you’re working within it? Or do you have to challenge the system?

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 | 2023-11-10

The bumpy road towards a global plastics treaty

Plastic pollution needs to end. While most countries agree on this, negotiations for a legally binding UN plastics treaty are going slowly. Centre researcher Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez explains why.

Research news | 2023-03-08

Growing “plastic smog” of 170 trillion particles afloat in the ocean

More than 170 trillion microplastic particles are floating in the World’s oceans, new study finds

Research news | 2023-01-19

Time for an "IPCC for the ocean"

Leading ocean experts propose a new International Panel for Ocean Sustainability (IPOS) to build consensus and inform policy

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 | 2022-02-25

Why it’s time we change the way we debate science

New study suggests three ways to change how researchers interact in order to increase science’s capacity to inform sustainable decisions

Research news | 2021-05-31

What it takes to address several challenges at the same time

Four insights into dealing with environmental policy issue interdependencies

Research news | 2020-09-08

Amid policy disagreements, the oceans continue to suffer

No one agrees on what a healthy ocean looks like. That is bad news in a time when tough decisions on conservation are needed

Research news | 2020-05-25

In some cases, a push and pull between interests can prevent unsustainable outcomes

How resource management can benefit from competition between interest groups

Research news | 2020-05-17

Can we avoid environmental pitfalls through a not-for-profit economy?

Environmental degradation is an inherent feature of the for-profit economy. What are the alternatives?

Research news | 2020-03-16

What it will take to fly less

Growing knowledge about climate change makes people want to reduce their flying. But more sustainable travelling still hampered by a striking lack of political incentives

Research news | 2019-05-09

IPBES and the role of the SRC

The centre’s contribution to intergovernmental platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Research news | 2019-01-11

Solutions that provide synergies

Environmental policy instruments must be used to deal with global environmental problems

Research news | 2018-09-25

A blueprint for impact

Seven steps towards increasing environmental science’s influence on policy and practice

Research news | 2018-06-26

Better to be safe than sorry?

Profit-maximizing approaches are most likely to produce outcomes that harm people or the environment. But it depends on the circumstances whether a sustainable or a safe approach is most suitable, new study argues

Research news | 2017-10-11

Tactics, timing and tenacity

How pro-environmental interest groups were able to push for reforms of the EU Common Fisheries Policy

Educational news | 2017-10-02

Transformative business leadership for a prosperous planet

Introducing our new executive programme in resilience thinking