Research in short | 2025-10-03

Nordic two-day menu inspired by the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet

Axfoundation has developed a Nordic two-day diet inspired by the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet, illustrating how Swedes can eat sustainably — close to today’s habits, yet in balance with the planet.

Research story | 2025-10-03

EAT-Lancet 2025: Global food transformation needed to ease pressure on the planet and save millions ...

Five of the seven breached planetary boundaries are linked to food systems. By transforming production and adopting a “planetary health diet,” we can halve food-related climate emissions and prevent millions of deaths, according to the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission.

General news | 2025-09-24

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached

A major new scientific review, “Planetary Health Check 2025”, shows that seven of nine planetary boundaries have now been exceeded. For the first time, this also includes the boundary for ocean acidification. This means that several of Earth’s life-supporting systems risk crossing critical thresholds, with severe consequences for both ecosystems and societies.

Research story | 2025-09-19

The ecology of money: How systemic interactions can grow sustainable finance

Finance actively shapes the Earth. By steering flows of money, providing insurance, and controlling costs of credit the financial system promotes activities and builds infrastructure than can either erode or enhance nature. A new perspective on sustainable finance argues that as long as nature is ignored, finance will erode nature and increase systemic risks. However if ecological realities are used to steer the flows of money, finance can still become a powerful lever for supporting humanity’s ecological life-support systems.

Research story | 2025-08-18

60 percent of the world’s land area is in a precarious state

More than half of the world’s land is under environmental strain that could make it harder for nature to keep supporting human life, according to a major new study.

General news | 2025-08-18

“We need a robust plastic treaty that protects people and the planet”

After ten days of negotiations in Geneva at INC-5.2, countries have not yet agreed on a new global plastics treaty. A large group of countries dissatisfied with the proposed text refused to accept a weak agreement that falls short of protecting environmental and human health, as indicated by the science.

General news | 2025-08-11

“Fixing the food system is the smartest economic play we can make”

Festivals can help repair broken food systems. A Swedish rock band transformed into a food truck is leading the way. This year’s edition of “Greentopia”, held at the Way Out West music festival, focused on how food, music and events can help us to stay within planetary boundaries.

Research story | 2025-06-03

New quantifications: Planetary Boundaries in the future

A new study explores three potential future scenarios and finds that, under current trends and policies, the situation is projected to worsen across all planetary boundaries by 2050, except for ozone depletion. But targeted interventions and ambitious policy measures can reduce the negative effects and steer humanity toward more sustainable futures.

Research story | 2025-04-02

How sand mining threatens our planet—and what we can do about it

For most of us, sand is just something that sticks to our feet at the beach. But in the global economy, sand mining is big business — and its’ effects on ecosystems and societies worldwide are often devastating, according to two recent studies by Centre researchers.

General news | 2025-01-15

Grounding EU sustainability reporting in science: A call for action

Beatrice Crona, Science director and Professor at the Centre, is one of the key authors behind a recently published Open Letter to the European Commission, signed by 44 leading academics in sustainability reporting.

Research story | 2024-11-21

Review: The emergence of the Planetary Boundaries framework and its impact on society and policy

For the first time, the full story of the Planetary Boundaries (PB) framework is being told. Researchers review its growing influence across disciplines and its impact on society and policy. Fifteen years after it was first proposed, the framework is now crucial for advancing global sustainability amidst rising planetary risks.

Research story | 2024-11-08

New study: Plastic pollution worsens the impacts of all planetary boundaries

Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows.

Research story | 2024-11-06

New report guides companies and investors to do business within planetary boundaries

Businesses and investors can play a key role in addressing the climate and nature crisis. But this calls for a shift in practices to measure corporate activities based on what really matters for the health of the planet, according to the new report “Doing business within planetary boundaries“.

Research story | 2024-09-12

New research reveals path to a just world on a safe planet

The planet will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared.

Research in short | 2024-05-02

Operationalising degrowth to connect planetary boundaries and cities

New article discusses the role of degrowth in keeping an urban planet within planetary boundaries

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 story | 2024-04-16

New indicators to guide companies towards a sustainable future

Many companies claim to be sustainable, but when Centre researcher Beatrice Crona looked at how they measure sustainability, she found that they often map the wrong things.

Educational news | 2024-04-09

New planetary boundary game bridges education and climate action

A new innovative computer game lets Danish school children learn about key research on planetary boundaries

Research story | 2024-03-15

The end of an ERA and next steps for Earth resilience

“We are deep into the Anthropocene and recognize that Earth’s resilience needs to be taken seriously to navigate our future,” said Johan Rockström during the concluding symposium of the research project Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene, ERA.

Research story | 2024-03-06

Freshwater planetary boundary has been crossed since the mid-twentieth century

The global freshwater cycle has shifted far beyond pre-industrial conditions, a new analysis shows