Humanity has become a global force shaping how the planet’s biosphere functions. Anthropogenic pressures are challenging the resilience of Earth’s favourable environmental conditions, upon which societies, cultures, and human civilisations are fundamentally dependent. As part of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Anthropocene Laboratory aims to generate and provide science-based understanding and insight to build and enable novel pathways towards a sustainable future. Its focus is on the biosphere, Earth’s thin layer of life, which includes humankind.

The mission of the Anthropocene Laboratory is to advance understandings of the intertwined biosphere, and to leverage this knowledge to identify and enable novel pathways towards a sustainable and just future. Through respectful dialogue and interdisciplinary collaboration, we explore creative approaches that integrate perspectives from the natural and social sciences, humanities, arts, and other fields of knowledge. Our aim is to catalyse positive change and inspire a future where our relationships with the living planet are revitalised.

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