New article in Business Strategy and the Environment: doi.org/10.1002/bse.... Leader-Member Exchange, compliance & sustainability performance in carbon-market governance: a #GlobalSouth perspective, looking at Uganda's #CarbonMarkets #Sustainability #ClimateChange #SustanableBusiness #ESG

First in our Reece Foundation series: Food Waste, Socioeconomic Inequality, and Household Consumption, a #Garbology study in Newcastle w/ Van Tran, Mark Goddard, Cheng Siew Goh. We sorted bins, not surveys, to see how #FoodWaste differs by income. doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2026.2673519

What our rubbish reveals: food waste and inequality in Newcastle households

We examined household rubbish across richer and poorer parts of Newcastle to see how income shapes food waste and consumption habits, combining bin analysis with interviews to understand what gets thr...

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New commentary is out: "Why pronatalism fails the planetary health test." Falling birth rates aren't the crisis, ignoring planetary boundaries is. doi.org/10.3197/whpj... #Pronatalism #PlanetaryHealth #PopulationAndSustainability #ReproductiveRights #EcologicalOvershoot #Biodiversity

Today was supposed to be my ECCB 26 @society4conbio.bsky.social keynote in Leiden. eccb26leiden.eu/interview-wi... Unfortunately, I am still waiting on my Indefinite Leave to Remain, can't travel until it's decided. Applied in January. Still nothing. Fingers crossed something moves before Thursday.

Absolute privilege to give a keynote at the "Foundational Issues in #BiodiversityFinance" workshop. Can you put a price on #wetland, #pollinator, or #ecosystem, without either overselling nature's financial "value" or reducing it to a spreadsheet item? philevents.org/event/show/1...

I'm pleased to announce that the Fair Trade Advocacy Office and Newcastle Business School are offering a fully funded PhD entitled "Peak Fair Trade? Reimagining the future of the Fair Trade movement". Happy to discuss the project with potential applicants. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Peak Fair Trade? Reimagining the future of the Fair Trade movement (Ref: RDFC26/SC/NBS/PRICE) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Peak Fair Trade? Reimagining the future of the Fair Trade movement (Ref: RDFC26/SC/NBS/PRICE) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Precisely 30 years ago I started working on my PhD dissertation, which later became my first book, East to West Migration, exploring #Migration policy and practice. Presently I seem in the middle of it lnkd.in/eM34B8hE

Yolo the baby king vulture has the cutest freckles going on. 🪶 It takes king vultures 5-6 years to go from baby to full color glow-up, and during that time there's a constant transition of in between stages. Its so fun to see him evolve!

When everything is violence, nothing is violence — new paper challenges claim that peer criticism and methodological disagreements constitute "epistemological violence." Robust debate is how science improves. doi.org/10.1111/cobi... #ConservationBiology #AcademicFreedom #ResearchEthics #Pluralism

When everything is violence, nothing is violence: Response to Koot et al. (2020)

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Mobile Labour? Lost keynotes. Frozen fieldwork. Blocked international research. 5 months waiting for a UK residence permit-no travel outside UK. Feels like under #HomeOffice arrest. Reality for thousands academics. Raised it with @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social Now raising it here. #GlobalTalent

New paper on extinction accounting & urban biodiversity governance in Hong Kong, out in AAAJ: doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ... #ecocentrism #sustainability #ESG #KunmingMontreal #GBF #30x30 #NaturePositive #KunmingMontreal #sustainability #SustainableBusiness #Rewilding #Biodiversity

Food Waste, Socioeconomic Inequality, and Household Consumption: A Mixed-Methods Garbology Study in Newcastle upon Tyne www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #sustainability #waste #foodwaste #inequality #consumption #food #poverty

Food Waste, Socioeconomic Inequality, and Household Consumption: A Mixed-Methods Garbology Study in Newcastle upon Tyne

Food waste represents a defining paradox of contemporary consumption: UK households discard approximately 6.4 million tonnes of food annually, of which 73% is edible, while an estimated 7.5 million...

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An engaging session organised by the Ouseburn Trust! With colleagues from @newcastleuni.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social @ouseburnfarm.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social discussed #environmental #sustainability initiatives, also BRANCH 🌿project funded by The Reece Foundation

Business education and its paradoxes: Linking business and biodiversity through critical pedagogy curriculum bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #environmentaleducation #biodiversity #business #managmentlearning #busiensseductaion #UNEP #UNESCO

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The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, launched during the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in December 2022, encourages governments, companies and investors to publish data on the...

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PhD in @fairtradeftao.bsky.social research @northumbriauni.bsky.social . UK/EU nationals only, UK strongly preferred. Strong candidates apply: jobsin.brussels/jobs/fair-tr... @mikeyprice.bsky.social

Strategic Action Research Doctoral Student – Fair Trade Advocacy Office | Jobs in Brussels

Fair Trade Advocacy Office is hiring a Strategic Action Research Doctoral Student in Brussels. View all details and apply for this job on Jobs in Brussels.

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Impressive launch event of the North East Alliance for Research on Environmental Risks. Great feedback on our BRANCH project (The Reece Foundation) on local #transport, #waste & #sustainability. Hosted by @durham.ac.uk with colleagues from @newcastleuni.bsky.social and @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Community engagement workshop on the subject of our project BRANCH: Building Resilience Across Newcastle Communities and Habitats, funded by the Reece Foundation and co-organised by Big River Bakery was wonderfully inspiring! Lots of ground-up ideas dealing with garbage and solutions discussed

The Conversation just published this article: nature is good for business theconversation.com/nature-is-go... Another question is of course how good is business for nature? and how much nature's contribution to people can be reciprocated? Source: ScienceDirect.com share.google/lM8MMWdDViy7...

Nature is good for business – and we now have numbers to show it

A New Zealand-focused analysis finds businesses in areas with healthier ecosystems tend to generate higher sales and profits, revealing an overlooked green benefit.

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Today's Garbology walk went well!

Today is #EndangeredSpeciesDay! #Biodiversity urgently needs help. The @IUCNRedList is a barometer of life, documenting the global extinction risk of animals, fungi and plants. It includes over 172,600 species, of which more than 48,600 are threatened with #extinction.

What does your bin say about the past and present? Join us Sunday 17 May for a Spoon to Spoon Garbology walk along the Tyne in Newcastle, sharing findings from our Reece Foundation-funded BRANCH-OUT project. Wetherspoons to Wetherspoons. Science never looked so good. www.facebook.com/events/96474...

I just signed Dame Judi Dench's petition, calling on the urgent restoration of our ancient woodlands. Please sign this important cause and share it: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Stand with Judi Dench - Sign the Petition

Join Dame Judi Dench and help save our ancient woodlands. Add your name to the petition and share it with friends and family.

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What does sustainability look like for communities facing food insecurity, transport poverty, and waste infrastructure failure? The BRANCH project (The Building Resilience Across Newcastle Communities and Habitats) by our research team @NorthumbriaUni discussed results

What does #sustainability look like for communities facing #foodinsecurity and #transportpoverty? BRANCH-OUT Building Resilience and Nurturing Community Habitats – Opening Up Transformation project has the answers. May 1: www.eventbrite.com/e/food-waste... #FoodWaste #ForcedCarOwnership #NorthEast

The 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize was given to Iroro Tanshi 🏆She proved that the most effective conservation happens from the ground up. She’s a brilliant strategist, whose work saved hundreds of the short-tailed roundleaf bats. #GoldmanPrize #Biodiversity #ChangeStartsWhereYouStand

Does Business Education have a #biodiversity blind spot? Our open access paper in #BERJ argues for #ecopedagogy over SDG-framing, with case studies from three universities. #conservation #HigherEd #BusinessEducation #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1002/berj...

Seamus Healy: Storm on the Island (Photos Alnwick) We are prepared: we build our houses squat, Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. This wizened earth has never troubled us With hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks... that can be lost[...] Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

This week’s UV copepods! I swear these colours are getting wilder every week. #marineplankton 🦑

What if #BusinessEducation is reinforcing the very system driving ecological crisis? This talk at CIIDES explores #Ecopedagogy #Degrowth #Sustainability and why business schools must move beyond “safe” narratives toward confronting #PlanetaryBoundaries www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFyZ...

HELEN KOPNINA. Conferencia para CIIDES 2026.

YouTube video by CIIDES Universitat d'Alacant

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Analysis: UK is ‘halving’ its climate finance for developing countries ✍️ By @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read the new analysis here ➡️ bit.ly/4t91fxL