The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented...
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status: published
The underexposed nature-based solutions: A critical state-of-art review on drought mitigation
Droughts are the most expensive climate disasters as they leave long-term and chronic impacts on the ecosystem, agriculture, and human society. The intensity, frequency, and duration of drought events have increased over the years and are expected to worsen in the future on a regional and planetary/global scale. Nature-based solutions (NBS) such as...
Climate change and public health in Germany - A synthesis of options for action from the German status report on climate...
...Published in Journal of health monitoring
This article represents the conclusion of the updated German status report on climate change and health, which was jointly written by authors from over 30 national institutions and organisations. The objectives are (a) to synthesise the options for action formulated in the report, (b) to combine them into clusters and guiding principles, (c) to add...
Progress on incorporating biodiversity monitoring in REDD plus through national forest inventories
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Urban climate policy and action through a health lens-an untapped opportunity
Motivated by a growing recognition of the climate emergency, reflected in the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), we outline untapped opportunities to improve health through ambitious climate actions in cities. Health is a primary reason for climate action yet is rarely integrated in urban climate plans as a policy goal. This is a missed opport...
Interactions between global climate change strategies and local air pollution: lessons learnt from the expansion of the ...
Published in Climatic Change
This study examines the interactions between local air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions to assess potential synergies and trade-offs between local environmental pollution and climate policies, using the power generation sector in Brazil under different carbon scenarios up to 2050 as a case study. To this end, an integrated approach was devel...
Reconciling biodiversity and carbon stock conservation in an Afrotropical forest landscape.
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Published in Science advances
Protecting aboveground carbon stocks in tropical forests is essential for mitigating global climate change and is assumed to simultaneously conserve biodiversity. Although the relationship between tree diversity and carbon stocks is generally positive, the relationship remains unclear for consumers or decomposers. We assessed this relationship for ...
Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages
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The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide guide-posts to society as it attempts to respond to an array of pressing challenges. One of these challenges is energy; thus, the SDGs have become paramount for energy policy-making. Yet, while governments throughout the world have already declared the SDGs to be 'integrated and indiv...
Impacts of carbon trading scheme on air pollutant emissions in Guangdong Province of China
This study aims to assess the impacts of carbon emission trading scheme (ETS) policy on air pollutant emission reduction in Guangdong (GD) Province, especially with respect to the embedded air pollutant emission flow caused by carbon ETS. A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model is constructed to project the local emission trajectory of CO2 and...
Promoting low-carbon city through industrial symbiosis: A case in China by applying HPIMO model
China launched low-carbon city strategy to respond global climate change. Industrial symbiosis (IS) could generate both economic and environmental benefits in clustered industries and communities. This research shed light on how industrial symbiosis contributes to city's low-carbon development. An urban-level hybrid physical input and monetary outp...
