City type specifies carbon cycle
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02646-5
City type specifies carbon cycle
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Policy interactions reshape the outcomes of carbon pricing policies
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02578-0
The adoption and effectiveness of carbon pricing are highly reshaped by interactions with other climate mitigation policies. A global comparative assessment of policy synergies and conflicts can guide policymakers in designing policy portfolios that can achieve higher mitigation cost-effectiveness.
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Additionality requirements of carbon markets could penalize Indigenous stewardship
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02576-2
Despite strong evidence that Indigenous stewardship sustains biodiversity and carbon stocks, carbon markets typically reward recovery from degradation rather than protection, often excluding Indigenous-managed lands. Rethinking additionality could align climate mitigation with care, equity and long-term ecosystem stewardship.
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Careful land allocation for carbon dioxide removal is critical for safeguarding biodiversity
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02567-3
A spatial assessment of global decarbonization scenarios reveals that land allocated for carbon dioxide removal substantially overlaps with areas of high biodiversity importance. The implications of such overlap depend on location and mode of implementation and demonstrate that careful assessment will be required when implementing decarbonization pathways to safeguard biodiversity.
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Biodiversity implications of land-intensive carbon dioxide removal
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 30 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02557-5
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) plays an important role in decarbonization pathways to meet climate goals, but some methods are land-intensive. Multimodel analysis reveals conflicts between biodiversity and CDR that are distributed unevenly, and shows that synergies are crucial to meet climate and conservation goals.
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A coalition on compliance carbon markets to make climate clubs politically feasible
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02541-5
Economists have spent a decade designing the perfect climate club, yet political reality has hitherto rendered these designs practically infeasible. The Open Coalition on Compliance Carbon Markets offers a path forward, but only if its architects recognize that understanding political feasibility is crucial to turning a declaration into a functioning carbon pricing club that could close the emissions gap.
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Warming increases the phenological mismatch between carbon sources and sinks in conifers
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02474-z
Measurements of carbon fluxes and wood phenology are used to assess carbon sources from photosynthesis and their sink into woody growth along a thermal gradient. The authors show that stem growth advances slower than photosynthesis per degree Celsius, creating a phenological mismatch for carbon.
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Author Correction: The carbon hoofprint of cities is shaped by geography and production in the livestock supply chain
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02509-5
Author Correction: The carbon hoofprint of cities is shaped by geography and production in the livestock supply chain
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