Speed talk summary 7 October

1. PhD and Master's students Kruger Nyasulu, Hanna Wernerson, Nataliia Pustilnik, Luigi Piemontese and Robin Lindström shared their thoughts on the Agricultural Research for Development Conference which took place in Uppsala earlier in September. More on the conference here: https://www.siani.se/event/agri4d2019/ Contact Robin Lindström fore more on their thoughts on the conference: robin.lindstrom@gmail.com 2. Laura Pereira provided her reflections on the Biodiversity Revisited Symposium on setting a new research agenda for biodiversity. The symposium took place in Vienna mid September. Contact her for more details: laura.pereira@su.se 3. PhD student Jean-Baptiste Jouffray (jean-baptiste.jouffray@su.se) presented his newly published paper on leverage points in the financial sector for seafood sustainability. Read more here: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2019-10-02-banking-on-a-better-seafood-industry.html J-B also provided some important info about how to get reimbursed for making papers open access. Get in contact via jean-baptiste.jouffray@su.se. 4. Maria Tengö and Laura Pereira informed about the Robert Bosch Post doc Academy for Transformational Leadership. The academy supports researchers who can help transform the world through their own academic research. 20 post-docs are currently enrolled. They will soon be visiting the SRC. Contact Maria Tengö maria.tengo@su.se and Laura Pereira laura.pereira@su.se for more info. 5. Ida Gabrielsson from the GRP's communications group offered a summary of the recent full-day event in New York ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit. "Building a Resilient Future" gathered some 500 people and had more than 20 high-level speakers. Great work from Ida and her colleagues! Read more here: http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Headline-messages-from-Building-a-Resilient-Futre-prepared-for-the-United-Nations-Secretary-Generals-Climate-Action-Summit.pdf or contact GRP head of Communications Maya Rebermark (MRebermark@globalresiliencepartnership.org) 7. Albert Norström (albert.norstrom@su.se) is deputy director of GRAID and provided an overview of the GRAID deep dive process and future events. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS Line Gordon provided an introduction to the rationale behind our mission and vision statements as well as our research framework. Updated versions are now considered. Read more about all this here: https://stockholmresilience.org/about-us.html Finally, we love bombed Beatrice Crona, see the video here: https://stockholmuniversity.box.com/s/1cgu1gdhbwg4srwm8p2zt3859nrctuy1