Country-level social cost of carbon
The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a commonly employed metric of the expected economic damages from carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Although useful in an optimal policy context, a world-level approach
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Combined speeds of climate and land-use change of the conterminous US until 2050
High rates of climate and land-use changes threaten biodiversity and ecosystem function, creating a need for integrated assessments and planning at regional to global scales. We develop a new approach
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Impact of the Keystone XL pipeline on global oil markets and greenhouse gas emissions
Climate policy and analysis often focus on energy production and consumption, but seldom consider how energy transportation infrastructure shapes energy systems. US President Obama has recently brought
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Threat to future global food security from climate change and ozone air pollution
Future food production is highly vulnerable to both climate change and air pollution with implications for global food security. Climate change adaptation and ozone regulation have been identified as important
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Projected continent-wide declines of the emperor penguin under climate change
Climate change has been projected to affect species distribution and future trends of local populations but projections of global population trends are rare. We analyse global population trends of the
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Drought survival of tropical tree seedlings enhanced by non-structural carbohydrate levels
Plants in most biomes are thought to be living at their hydraulic limits, and alterations to precipitation patterns consistent with climate change trends are causing die-back in forests across the globe.
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Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia over 2000–2012
Tropical deforestation from developing countries, including Indonesia, contributes to emissions of greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global warming. Primary forest clearing
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Occurrence and persistence of future atmospheric stagnation events
Poor air quality causes an estimated 2.6–4.4 million premature deaths per year. Hazardous conditions form when meteorological components allow the accumulation of pollutants in the near-surface atmosphere.
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Optimal CO2 mitigation under damage risk valuation
The current generation has to set mitigation policy under uncertainty about the economic consequences of climate change. This uncertainty governs both the level of damages for a given level of warming,
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Arctic amplification decreases temperature variance in northern mid- to high-latitudes
Changes in climate variability are arguably more important for society and ecosystems than changes in mean climate, especially if they translate into altered extremes. There is a common perception and
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Potential contribution of wind energy to climate change mitigation
It is still possible to limit greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the 2 °C warming threshold for dangerous climate change. Here we explore the potential role of expanded wind energy deployment in climate