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UN Sustainable Development Goals 14 and 15 – Life below water, Life on land
RSC Sustainability, 2023 Our impact on all forms of life on land and in water could be reduced by considering the full lifecycle of chemicals. Ocean life is especially at risk via acidification, eutrophication and plastic pollution.
Francesca M. Kerton
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Advancing knowledge on the biogeography of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to support Sustainable Development Goal 15: Life on Land. [PDF]
FEMS Microbiol LettAbstract Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are fundamental to planetary health, enhancing plant nutrient uptake, stabilizing soils, and supporting biodiversity. Due to their prevalence and ecological importance, AM fungi are critical to achieving the environmental targets within the United Nations (UN) Sustainability Development Goals ...
Stewart JD +11 more
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SDG 15: Life on Land – The Central Role of Forests in Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People, 2019 SDG 15 requires the maintenance of life on land and endorses priorities already established through international conventions and agreements. The scale, and complexity, of tropical forest loss and biodiversity decline versus the limited resources for ...
Jeffrey Sayer +9 more
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Life-Cycle Land-Use Requirement for PV in Vietnam [PDF]
Energies, 2021 Over the last 15 years, photovoltaics (PV) in Vietnam has experienced development. The increased installed capacity of PV requires more land for installation sites as well as for manufacturing the plants’ component and waste treatment during the plants ...
Eleonora Riva Sanseverino +5 more
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Priorities for progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 ‘Life on land’
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 David Cooper +7 more
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Transitioning to Sustainable Life on Land—Introduction to SDG 15 and the Volume
Transitioning to Sustainable Life on Land, 2016 Land constitutes only 29.3% of planet Earth’s surface area but harbors 86.1% of the global biomass (Bar-On et al. 2018). Out of the 8.7 million species estimated to exist globally, 75% live in terrestrial ecosystems (Mora et al. 2011). Some scholars even
Volker Beckmann
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Local biodiversity actions for sustainable development goal 15 (life on land) in
Sustainable DevelopmentAchieving sustainable development goal (SDG) 15 (life on land) depends on local conservation efforts. However, the lack of species data and inadequate ecological corridor designs significantly hinder conservation efficiency.
Guangjin Zhou +10 more
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, 2022 AbstractPopulation increases, industry, urbanisation, infrastructure development and agricultural expansion influence landscapes, lowering total habitat size and quality and resulting in ecological degradation. SDG-15, Life on Land, aims to maintain, restore and enhance the utilisation of the terrestrial environment and forest management sustainably ...
Sinan Küfeoğlu
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, 2023 In 2015, the 193 United Nations (UN) member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The mid-point of the SDG Agenda was reached in 2023 and while important progress has been made, the world is not on track to achieve the goals by 2030. Competing claims for land and resources by the different goals are among the reasons for the limited ...
Schulze, Katharina
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Standardized metrics to quantify solar energy-land relationships: A global systematic review
Frontiers in Sustainability, 2023 Ground-mounted solar energy installations, including photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP), can have significant environmental, ecological, and sociocultural effects via land-use and land-cover change (LULCC).
Alexander E. Cagle +8 more
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