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Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives
(Elsevier, 2023-01)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement are the two transformative agendas, which set the benchmarks for nations to address urgent social, economic and environmental challenges. Aside from setting ...
Carbon footprint of transhumant sheep farms: accounting for natural baseline emissions in Mediterranean systems
(International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2023)
Purpose: Transhumance has rarely been analyzed through LCA approaches, and there is little evidence about its emissions level when conducted under different practices (by truck or on foot) or compared to sedentary livestock ...
Niche complementarity among pollinators increases community-level plant reproductive success
(Peer Community in Ecology, 2020-06-01)
Declines in pollinator diversity and abundance have been reported across different regions, with implications for the reproductive success of plant species. However, research has focused primarily on pairwise plant-pollinator ...
Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability
(SCIENCE, 2020-10-23)
Global biodiversity policy is at a crossroads. Recent global assessments of living nature (1, 2) and climate (3) show worsening trends and a rapidly narrowing window for action. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) ...
Why telecoupling research needs to account for environmental justice
(Journal of Land Use Science, 2020-02-01)
Engaging with normative questions in land system science is a key challenge. This debate paper highlights the potential of incorporating elements of environmental justice scholarship into the evolving telecoupling framework ...
Local adaptation strategies to increase or maintain soil organic carbon content under arable farming in Europe: Inspirational ideas for setting operational groups within the European innovation partnership
(Journal of Rural Studies, 2020-10-01)
In the European Union, the setting of Operational Groups (OG) is supported by the European Innovation Partnership to tackle specific problems and favor innovation in agriculture. They constitute an important aspect of the ...
Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability
(People and Nature, 2020-07-23)
Humanity is on a deeply unsustainable trajectory. We are exceeding planetary boundaries and unlikely to meet many international sustainable development goals and global environmental targets. Until recently, there was no ...
Fusing subnational with national climate action is central to decarbonization: the case of the United States
(Nature Communications, 2020-12-01)
Approaches that root national climate strategies in local actions will be essential for all countries as they develop new nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement. The potential impact of climate action ...
How to achieve a healthier and more sustainable europe by 2040 according to the public? Results of a five-country questionnaire survey
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020-08-20)
The aim of this paper is to understand public preferences for several future scenarios of achieving a healthier, more equitable and sustainable Europe, which differ in the way the society is organized (individualistically ...
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events
(Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2023)
The current magnitude of ocean extreme events already exceeds the end-of-the-decade scenario estimates, and therefore incremental adaptation measures will render insufficient for seafood-dependent livelihoods. Nevertheless, ...