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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02330-0
Individualized cost–benefit analysis does not fit for demand-side mitigation
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This year marks the tenth anniversary of Whole-Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP), a novel insurance product that offers farmers nationwide the option to insure the revenue of their entire operation, including crop, livestock, and nursery production, under a single policy. WFRP also rewards adoption of business practices that reduce risk with its premium discount for crop and enterprise diversification.
These features make WFRP the ideal insurance product for a wide range of farms including small and mid-sized farms, which are more likely to be multi-crop, direct-market systems. Just nine percent of farms with less than 50 acres are insured at a time when financial volatility and unpredictability of weather events makes access to a safety net more important than ever.
In this blog, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) analyzes …
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02095-y
Machine learning methods allow for advances in many aspects of climate research. In this Perspective, the authors give an overview of recent progress and remaining challenges to harvest the full potential of machine learning methods.
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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01468-5
Infrastructure investment needs to account for climate change globally, yet most day-to-day projects are small and poorly served by economic assessment processes. Four simple adjustments to cost–benefit analysis practices would greatly improve decision making for future infrastructure resilience.
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