Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02085-0
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100
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Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 30 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02087-y
Protection afforded by inorganic minerals is assumed to make mineral-associated organic carbon less susceptible to loss under climate change than particulate organic carbon. However, a global study of soil organic carbon from drylands suggests that this is not the case.
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Enhanced policy adequacy facilitates national climate adaptation tracking across Africa
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02055-6
Inadequate information in national adaptation policies limits the ability to track national adaptation progress in Africa. Enhancing coverage, consistency and robustness of these policies offers a clear path to establish effective, nationally led adaptation-tracking infrastructure.
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Strategies to improve the impact of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02060-9
Urban areas are an important focus for effective climate action in the coming decade. This Perspective proposes transformational strategies to accelerate and upscale the impact of the planned Special Report on Climate Change and Cities in the IPCC seventh assessment cycle.
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A group of young people just forced Hawaiʻi to take major climate action
The government of Hawaiʻi and a group of young people have reached a historic settlement that requires the state to decarbonize its transportation network. The agreement is the first of its kind in the nation and comes two years after 13 Hawaiian youth sued the state Department of Transportation for failing to protect their “constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment.”
The settlement, announced last Thursday, requires the department to develop a plan and zero out greenhouse gas emissions from all transportation sectors by 2045. The agency is also required to create a new unit tasked with climate change mitigation, align budgetary investments with its clean energy goals, and plant at least 1,000 trees a year to increase carbon absorption from the atmosphere.
“It’s historic that the state government has come to the table and negotiated such a …
Misestimations as a barrier to climate action
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02045-8
Effective climate action requires understanding of the contribution of individual actions, firms and industries to greenhouse gas emissions. Now a study illustrates widespread misestimations of emission impacts and reveals underlying psychological processes.
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Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02018-x
A comprehensive analysis of observations and model simulations finds that future global mean warming is likely to be larger than previously thought, and that limiting global warming to well below 2°C will be more difficult than previously anticipated.
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Climate change and geohazards
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02026-x
Long-term monitoring is required to determine whether climate change is having an impact on shallow geohazard frequency and magnitude; however, these records rarely exist. An innovative approach, using tree damage as evidence, suggests climate change has shifted the seasonality of alpine rockfalls as well as increasing their frequency and volume.
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