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Creating and curating a community of practice: introducing the evidence synthesis Hackathon and a special series in evidence synthesis technology

Environmental Evidence, 2020
Evidence synthesis is a vital part of evidence-informed decision-making, but high growth in the volume of research evidence over recent decades has made efficient evidence synthesis increasingly challenging.
Neal R. Haddaway, Martin J. Westgate
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Committed to restoring tropical forests: an overview of Brazil’s and Indonesia’s restoration targets and policies

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
The restoration of tropical forests has become a popular nature-based solution for climate change mitigation, protection of biodiversity, and improving the livelihoods of local populations.
Constantino Dockendorff, Sabine Fuss, Raquel Agra, Valentin Guye, Diego Herrera, Florian Kraxner   +5 more
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Food system emissions: a review of trends, drivers, and policy approaches, 1990–2018

Environmental Research Letters, 2023
The food system, spanning from pre-production processes to post-production stages, is responsible for about one third of global greenhouse gas emissions and requires significant mitigation efforts to prevent dangerous levels of global warming.
Nicola Cerutti, William F Lamb, Monica Crippa, Adrian Leip, Efisio Solazzo, Francesco N Tubiello, Jan C Minx   +6 more
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Productivity ranges of sustainable biomass potentials from non-agricultural land

Environmental Research Letters, 2016
Land is under pressure from a number of demands, including the need for increased supplies of bioenergy. While bioenergy is an important ingredient in many pathways compatible with reaching the 2 °C target, areas where cultivation of the biomass ...
Vivian Schueler, Sabine Fuss, Jan Christoph Steckel, Ulf Weddige, Tim Beringer   +4 more
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Govern land as a global commons [PDF]

Nature, 2017
Felix Creutzig calls for international coordination of land use to ensure everyone has access to its fruits.
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Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade

Communications Earth & Environment
Scaling up CO2 removal is crucial to achieve net-zero targets and limit global warming. To engage with publics and ensure a social licence to deploy large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR), better understanding of public perceptions of these ...
Tim Repke, Finn Müller-Hansen, Emily Cox, Jan C. Minx   +3 more
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Saving resources and the climate? A systematic review of the circular economy and its mitigation potential

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
To achieve the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement, transformative actions are needed. The circular economy (CE) is one concept that gained popularity in recent years, with its proclaimed selling point to combine economic development with benefits to
Jasmin Cantzler, Felix Creutzig, Eva Ayargarnchanakul, Aneeque Javaid, Liwah Wong, Willi Haas   +5 more
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Women are under-represented in adaptation policy research and are more likely to emphasise justice topics

Environmental Research: Climate
This paper is the first to analyse the role of women authors in fostering justice-relevant topics in climate adaptation research. As representation, citation and payment patterns remain gender-biased across scientific disciplines, we explore the case of ...
Diana Danilenko, Marina Andrijevic, Anne J Sietsma, Max Callaghan, Tarun Khanna   +4 more
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Reports of coal’s terminal decline may be exaggerated

Environmental Research Letters, 2018
We estimate the cumulative future emissions expected to be released by coal power plants that are currently under construction, announced, or planned. Even though coal consumption has recently declined and plans to build new coal-fired capacities have ...
Ottmar Edenhofer, Jan Christoph Steckel, Michael Jakob, Christoph Bertram   +3 more
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Status consciousness in energy consumption: a systematic review

Environmental Research Letters, 2021
Access to energy is a precondition for a decent standard of living. Some household decisions on energy consumption are however motivated to maintain or improve status, resulting in social zero-sum games, with environmentally harmful outcomes.
Anjali Ramakrishnan, Felix Creutzig
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