Garry Peterson

@resiliencesci.bsky.social

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Director FinBio.org
Professor of Environmental Science
with focus on Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University stockholmresilience.org

projects:
regimeshifts.org
biospherefutures.net
goodanthropocenes.net .. more

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · Nov 4

Resilience Science Must-Knows

Nine essential insights from global resilience science to help decision-makers navigate a turbulent world.

Developed in dialogue with decision makers, and synthesised by an international team of resilience researchers

www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

Resilience Science Must-Knows

Nine things every decision maker should know about resilience

www.stockholmresilience.org

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 18h

reporting on

IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment

Summary for Policymakers is available now
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

full assessment soon

IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment: Summary for Policymakers

The Summary for Policymakers of the Methodological assessment of the impact and dependence of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people will strengthen the knowledge base to suppor...

doi.org

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 18h

Businesses must transform or go under
www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

“The loss of biodiversity is among the most serious threats to business. Yet the twisted reality is that it often seems more profitable to businesses to degrade biodiversity than to protect it.” - S Polasky

Businesses must transform or go under, biodiversity panel warns in new report

It is high time to redirect economic development so that it supports the nature it depends on, shows a new landmark report on biodiversity by the intergovernmental biodiversity platform IPBES, to whic...

www.stockholmresilience.org

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 18h

IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment
Summary for Policymakers
zenodo.org/records/1853...

is now available

Reposted by Andy Purvis

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d

IPBES Business and biodiversity assessment
www.ipbes.net/business-imp...
approved today.

Summary for decision makers should be out soon

Reposted by Garry Peterson

Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI -despite promising just over a year ago to triple climate finance from developed world to poor and vulnerable countries, UK govt is now planning to slash climate finance by more than a fifth

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK to cut climate finance to poor countries by a fifth despite promising more help

Exclusive: Campaigners say proposed cut from £11.9bn over past five years to £9bn over next five years will cost lives and livelihoods

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Garry Peterson, Alejandro Ordóñez

Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 2d

#IPBES12 delegates spent all day working on the session’s key deliverable: the Business and Biodiversity Assessment

It took until the late afternoon to complete a read-through of the Background Messages

Talks on tables and figures ran into the night

Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/intergovernm...

Reposted by Garry Peterson

Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 3d

At #IPBES12, agreement was reached on several agenda items, including on indicators and an intersessional process for a proposal on the Platform’s future work

More talks are needed to find agreement on the Business and #Biodiversity Assessment

Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/intergovernm...

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 3d

Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 picked by Wole Talabi
(author of "Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon")
reactormag.com/tenish-of-th...

Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 - Reactor

Here are some of the speculative fiction gems that may have flown under the radar in 2025...

reactormag.com

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 3d

Inuit delegation in Greenland for opening of Canadian consulate
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

"We want to come together in solidarity with Greenland to show our support and to say: That land is not for sale," -Susie-Ann Kudluk, vice-president of the Qarjuit Youth Council

Susie-Ann Kudluk, the 28-year-old vice-president of the Qarjuit Youth Council, arrives in Nuuk (Olivia Stefanovich/CBC)

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 4d

“poll suggests that many Europeans (from 39% in Germany to 57% in Denmark) still believe US foreign policy will “revert to normal” once Trump has left the scene”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Western Europeans turning against US after Greenland threat, poll finds

Large majorities in six nations express antipathy to Trump’s US and support European self-assertion

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Joachim Claudet, Garry Peterson, Natalie C. Ban

Laura Pereira @laurap18.bsky.social · 4d

New Paper ❗️
🪸Reimagining #CoralReef futures

Where we develop aspirational visions for coral reefs towards a #SafeAndJust space
👇🏽
doi.org/10.1038/s44183-025-00179-6
With @joachimclaudet.bsky.social @jessicablythe.bsky.social @vbrn.bsky.social et al @sthlmresilience.bsky.social

Reimagining coral reef futures - npj Ocean Sustainability

npj Ocean Sustainability - Reimagining coral reef futures

doi.org

Reposted by Garry Peterson

Gabriel Agostini @gsagostini.bsky.social · 4d

MIGRATE is also useful for studying local migration trends. For example, it reveals dramatic rates of out-migration after wildfires in California that are invisible in previous Census datasets. 7/9

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 4d

Hedge funds’ correlation with stocks sparks fears over lack of crash protection
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“It’s a little scary especially when you look at the times that this has happened before” - J Caplis, founder of hedge fund research firm PivotalPath

Hedge funds closely tracked moves in equity markets last year, raising concerns among some commentators that the industry may not be positioned to protect investors if there is a sharp market sell-off.

According to research by BNP Paribas, the correlation between hedge fund returns and the MSCI World, a broad global equity market index, was the highest in at least five years.

The research comes amid a roaring three-year bull market in global stocks that helped hedge funds make 12.5 per cent in 2025, their best year since 2009, according to data provider HFR. However, the research also adds to long-standing fears that these high-fee portfolios could struggle to protect investors during a market downturn, traditionally one of their strongest selling points.

Reposted by Juan Rocha

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 4d

The Climate Fiction Prize longlist
climatefictionprize.co.uk/longlist-2026/

"a new literary prize that will celebrate the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis"

Explore the longlist - The Climate Fiction Prize

Explore the inaugural longlist for the Climate Fiction Prize

climatefictionprize.co.uk

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 4d

Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right
doi.org/10.1038/d415...

you can try online at
openscilm.allen.ai

Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right

Researchers can deploy the cheap and transparent model on their own computer system.

doi.org

Reposted by Garry Peterson

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 5d

Reichert, G. W., Glöser-Chahoud, S., & Gröβler, A. (2026). Graph notation as a gateway—transitioning from causal loop to stock and flow diagrams (and beyond) in system dynamics modeling [Article]. International Journal of Social Research Methodology.

doi.org/10.1080/1364...

ABSTRACT
This study addresses the gap between causal loop diagrams (CLDs)
and stock and flow diagrams (SFDs) in system dynamics modeling.
While the ambiguity of standard CLDs eases early stakeholder engagement, it hinders precise simulation model building in later stages. Building on prior link- and node-labeling approaches, we introduce CLD+, an enhanced yet intuitive notation that explicitly marks variable types, distinguishes material from information links, and treats delays/subsystems as first-class nodes. With these annotations, a CLD+ is structurally equivalent to an SFD: it can be transformed automatically into an SFD or quantified directly as a simulation model, making CLD+ not only a bridge but a full-fledged surrogate for SFDs. We discuss implications for tooling that supports round-trip conversion and ‘store-once-use-everywhere’ workflows, reducing transition costs and improving model reliability in practice and education.

Reposted by Pierre Friedlingstein, Peter M. Cox, Garry Peterson , and 2 more Pierre Friedlingstein, Peter M. Cox, Garry Peterson, Flavio Lehner, Laura Pereira

Daniel Ospina @daniel-ospina.bsky.social · 5d

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* February 8

Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science

Future Earth @futureearth.bsky.social · Jan 8

What climate insights are policymakers missing?

If you’re working on new or emerging climate research, now’s the time to surface it.

Help shape the 2026 10 New Insights in Climate Science.

Submit by 31 Jan 2026: form.jotform.com/Future_Earth...

10 New Insights in Climate Science - CALL FOR EXPERT INPUT 2026

Please click the link to complete this form.

form.jotform.com

Reposted by Garry Peterson, Eeva Primmer

Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 5d

Negotiations on the Business and Biodiversity Assessment at #IPBES12 advanced at a slow pace, necessitating an additional evening session

Working Group 2, by contrast, made swift progress, reaching agreement on all workplans for 2026-27

Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/intergovernm...

#IPBES

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 5d

Aon's 2026 Climate and Catastrophe Insight
www.aon.com/en/insights/...

"Global economic losses from natural catastrophes"
Total $260B
Insured $127B

Losses from Severe Convective Storms & Wildfire increasing
and high in 2025

Severe convective storms and Wildfire were the only perils that exceeded their long-term loss averages in 2025.

2025 was marked by significantly reduced losses from tropical cyclones, with one of the lowest aggregated loss totals in this century. A notable reduction also occurred in losses related to flooding, the second-costliest peril on average. Please note that the tropical
cyclone category includes impacts of flooding induced or exacerbated by tropical cyclones

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 5d

Northern Cheyenne Tribe Reclaims Sovereignty Through Solar Energy and Buffalo Restoration
dailyyonder.com/the-northern...

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe Reclaims Sovereignty Through Solar Energy and Buffalo Restoration | The Daily Yonder

Brandon Small’s pickup squeezes down a narrow dirt road lined with trees and bushes as we drive down the hillside towards the buffalo. We’re on the

dailyyonder.com

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d

Social movements are transformative agents for biodiversity conservation
Walter+
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

identify 3 leverages pts to increase social movements transformative potential for biodiversity conservation

-recognition as allies
-strengthen & supporting
-enhancing their protection

Social movements are transformative agents for biodiversity conservation | PNAS

Civil society has long been a catalyst for social change by reshaping structures, influencing values, and challenging power dynamics; however, its ...

doi.org

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d

Diets, dominance hierarchies, and kleptoparasitism drive asymmetrical interactions between wolves and cougars
Binder+
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

"landscape structure and prey diversity, not just prey abundance, determine apex carnivore coexistence"

Diets, dominance hierarchies, and kleptoparasitism drive asymmetrical interactions between wolves and cougars | PNAS

After widespread extirpation, conservation efforts have restored large carnivores to portions of their former range. Substantial research has since...

doi.org

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d

Adam Tooze - "Talking w peril" - polycrisis or stroke?
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

"Not so much neoliberal order breakdown syndrome, as something closer to what Epstein described:
A stroke.
..
More like polycrisis as incontinence. "

Chartbook 432 "Writing column. Talking w peril" - polycrisis or stroke?

Why do people, more specifically, rich, famous and powerful men, do the things they do?

adamtooze.substack.com

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d

Imagining a Writer’s Toolkit for Hopeful Climate Futures
Eschrich & Finn
climatefictionwritersleague.substack.com/p/imagining-...

they propose
4 recommendations
for grounded, credible, and compelling hopeful stories

1. Be intergenerational
2. Be cartographic
3. Be ecological
4. Be communitarian

Imagining a Writer’s Toolkit for Hopeful Climate Futures

from Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination

climatefictionwritersleague.substack.com

Reposted by Thomas Backhaus

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d

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Home - Financial Times

News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

FT.com

Reposted by Juan Rocha

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 8d

The UN says it is facing financial collapse if the USA doesn't pay over $2 billion of unpaid annual dues
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...

"US, Germany, Japan, China and the UK are the UN's largest funders...Many countries are regularly late paying dues"
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UN • Data covers assessed, voluntary and other contributions. WFP = World Food Programme; UN-DPO = UN Department of Peace Operations; Unicef = UN International Children's Emergency Fund; UNHCR = UN High Commissioner for Refugees; UNDP = UN Development Programme; IOM = International Organization for Migration; UNRWA = UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 9d

"Trustworthy Data Visualization"
and "how we should think about it in a world where researchers are faking results, AIs are enthusiastically confabulating, and government is destroying data infrastructure"
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
a talk by @kjhealy.co
kieranhealy.org/publications...

Trustworthy Data Visualization

This past September I gave the closing keynote at posit::conf; it’s now on YouTube to watch. Keen-eyed observers will note from the title that it’s about trustworthy data visualization. But it’s also ...

kieranhealy.org

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 9d

a good book
on challenges and successes of Scottish community land ownership is

From the Low Tide of the Sea to the Highest Mountain Tops: Community ownership of land in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
by J Hunter
www.google.se/books/editio...

an essay:
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/1305...

This land is our land

These changes are taking place in the Highlands and Islands, where thriving economies and rising populations are increasingly to be found in places…

www.heraldscotland.com

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 9d

England learning form Scottish examples such as the islands of

Eigg
goodanthropocenes.net/eigg/

and

Gigha
goodanthropocenes.net/isle-of-gigh...

Eigg Heritage Trust – Reshaping Land Ownership in Scotland

How can people organise to gain control of the place in which they live? The Scottish Ilse of Eigg replaced its historic semi-feudal system of land ownership, in which residents were tenants of an ab...

goodanthropocenes.net

Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 9d

Power to the parish: can community ownership successfully scale up?
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on expansion of charitable Community Benefit Society (CBS) in the UK

Power to the parish: can community ownership successfully scale up?

The UK government has hopes of doubling the size of the co-operative sector, evolving the model beyond post offices and pubs to brownfield sites and storied estates

giftarticle.ft.com

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