Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

HO Pörtner, RJ Scholes, A Arneth, DKA Barnes… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

Life-cycle assessment to guide solutions for the triple planetary crisis

S Hellweg, E Benetto, MAJ Huijbregts… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution—the triple planetary crisis—increasingly
threaten the Earth system, necessitating tools such as life-cycle assessment (LCA) that can …

Cost-effective mitigation of nitrogen pollution from global croplands

B Gu, X Zhang, SK Lam, Y Yu, HJM Van Grinsven… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Cropland is a main source of global nitrogen pollution,. Mitigating nitrogen pollution from
global croplands is a grand challenge because of the nature of non-point-source pollution …

The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss

P Jaureguiberry, N Titeux, M Wiemers, DE Bowler… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Effective policies to halt biodiversity loss require knowing which anthropogenic drivers are
the most important direct causes. Whereas previous knowledge has been limited in scope …

[PDF][PDF] The state of carbon dioxide removal

S Smith, O Geden, M Gidden, W Lamb, G Nemet… - 2024 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The views, opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this report
are strictly those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the views of funders or …

Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon

JS Albert, AC Carnaval, SGA Flantua, LG Lohmann… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural
activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022 - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

F Hua, LA Bruijnzeel, P Meli, PA Martin, J Zhang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and
biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery …

Biodiversity loss reduces global terrestrial carbon storage

SR Weiskopf, F Isbell, MI Arce-Plata… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural ecosystems store large amounts of carbon globally, as organisms absorb carbon
from the atmosphere to build large, long-lasting, or slow-decaying structures such as tree …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …