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Modest warming will raise Europe's flood risk
Central and western Europe can expect a substantially higher flood risk in the future, even with ambitious cuts in temperature.
Land restoration in food security programmes: synergies with climate change mitigation
Food-insecure households in many countries depend on international aid to alleviate acute shocks and chronic shortages. Some food security programmes (including Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program–PSNP – which provides a case study for this article) have integrated aid in exchange for labour on…
Food security outcomes under a changing climate: impacts of mitigation and adaptation on vulnerability to food insecurity (open access article)
Climate change is a potential threat to achieving food security, particularly in the most food insecure regions. However, interpreting climate change projections to better understand the potential impacts of a changing climate on food security outcomes is challenging. This paper addresses this…
Soil cannot halt climate change
Long-term field experiments at Rothamsted Research, dating back as far as 1843, prove that modern carbon emissions cannot be locked in the ground to halt global warming
Climate Mitigation Finance Update: From Divestment to Investment, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
The Green Climate Fund has approved US$1,093.5 million in funding for mitigation and adaptation projects in its first board meeting of 2018. A major global insurance company has committed to divest €2 billion from coal and invest €3.5 billion in the green economy. Several renewable energy and energy…
Soil carbon sink? It depends also on nitrogen
A study just published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Nature Climate Change shows that soils can be a net sink of greenhouse gases through increased storage of organic carbon.
The new issue of Nature Climate Change is just out- see some of the articles, news and views
Species' responses to climate change are contingent on the complexity and fragmentation of their habitats. Ecological niche modelling is used to reconstruct past range shifts and identify future vulnerable areas and potential refugia of the King penguin in the Southern Ocean under climate change
Pocket Guide for Capacity Building for Climate Change
For over a decade, the European Capacity Building Initiative(ecbi) has adopted a two-pronged strategy to create a more level playing field for developing country in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): training for new negotiators; and opportunities for senior negotiators from…
Relationship between food waste, diet quality, and environmental sustainability
This analysis finds that US consumers wasted 422g of food per person daily, with 30 million acres of cropland used to produce this food every year. This accounts for 30% of daily calories available for consumption, one-quarter of daily food (by weight) available for consumption, and 7% of annual…
Intensified drought and heatwaves (Nature Climate Change Volume 8 Issue 5, May 2018)
Rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns lead to heat waves and droughts occurring with greater frequency and intensity. This issue includes a collection of original research documenting how droughts and heatwaves, as well as their impacts on both natural and human systems, may change with…
Just published: Recovering degraded land in arid zones
Representing nearly 41% of the land above sea level, arid zones are home to more than two billion people who suffer from the ongoing degradation of the land and soil that provide them sustenance. Owing to desertification and droughts, nearly twelve million hectares of land are no longer arable each…
Just & In-Time Climate Policy . Four Initiatives for a Fair Transformation
Limiting global warming to well below 2°C requires the rapid decarbonization of the global economy. If this enterprise fails, we will jeopardize the life-support systems of future generations. The longer the transformation towards climate compatibility is delayed, the more severe the risks and…
New article: Land-use emissions play a critical role in land-based mitigation for Paris climate targets
Scenarios that limit global warming to below 2 °C by 2100 assume significant land-use change to support large-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) removal from the atmosphere by afforestation/reforestation, avoided deforestation, and Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). The more ambitious…
IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C was considered by the Panel on 1 - 5 October 2018 in Incheon, Republic of Korea. Slower climate warming is still possible
The world can achieve slower climate warming, preventing temperatures from rising by more than 1.5˚C, a global scientific panel says. But time is short.
New article: Assessing the effectiveness of Sustainable Land Management for large-scale climate change adaptation
Climate change will strongly affect essential ecosystem services, like the provision of freshwater, food production, soil erosion and flood control. Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices are increasingly promoted to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, but there is lack of…
Emissions Gap Report 2018
The annual UN Environment Emissions Gap Report presents an assessment of current national mitigation efforts and the ambitions countries have presented in their Nationally Determined Contributions, which form the foundation of the Paris Agreement.
Climate 2020: Degrees of devastation
UNA-UK has released a major report on implementing the new climate deal agreed by UN member states in Paris in 2015. Climate 2020 – Degrees of Devastation is the fourth in the series of major reports on the Paris Agreement on climate change. It equips policy-makers, practitioners and interested…
EU Commission just adopted the landmark EU2050 climate strategy for a Climate Neutral EU by 2050. Europe will be the world's first major economy to go for NetZero2050
The European Commission calls for a climate-neutral Europe by 2050. On 28 November 2018, the Commission presented its strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate-neutral economy by 2050. The strategy shows how Europe can lead the way to climate neutrality by…
ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure) "the world's first comprehensive tool" linking environmental change with its consequences for the economy.
ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure) is a web-based tool that will help global banks, investors and insurance firms assess the risks that environmental degradation poses for financial institutions
Guidance on Data Integration for Measuring Migration
The publication titled, 'Guidance on Data Integration for Measuring Migration,' highlights the far-reaching influence of migration on societies, and emphasizes the need for accurate data on migrants to inform policy making. The guide aims to help policy makers, researchers and statisticians produce…
Extreme heat is growing threat to harvests
A warmer world means more chance of extreme heat in more than one continent at the same time, and a rising threat to global food security.