Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

Global mapping of urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation

(2023) Sean Goodwin et al.   Nature Sustainability

Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate

(2022) Y. J. Shin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks

(2022) Andy Dobson et al.   SCIENCE

Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus

(2022) Unai Pascual et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The sanitation service of seagrasses – Dependencies and implications for the estimation of avoided costs

(2022) Fortunato A. Ascioti et al.   Ecosystem Services

Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion

(2022) Juan M. Pérez-García et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

(2022) Luke Kemp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Harnessing the potential of nature-based solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change

(2022) Nathalie Seddon   SCIENCE

Grassland soil carbon sequestration: Current understanding, challenges, and solutions

(2022) Yongfei Bai et al.   SCIENCE

Win-win opportunities combining high yields with high multi-taxa biodiversity in tropical agroforestry

(2022) Annemarie Wurz et al.   Nature Communications

Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets

(2022) Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable resource use

(2021) Marius Essen et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Role of dams in reducing global flood exposure under climate change

(2021) Julien Boulange et al.   Nature Communications

How close are we to the temperature tipping point of the terrestrial biosphere?

(2021) Katharyn A. Duffy et al.   Science Advances

The effectiveness of national biodiversity investments to protect the wealth of nature

(2021) Andrew Seidl et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change

(2021) Nathalie Seddon et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

(2021) Dana M. Bergstrom et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Enhancing synergies in nature’s contributions to people in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes: lessons learnt from ten site-based projects in biodiversity hotspots

(2021) Yasuo Takahashi et al.   Sustainability Science

Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate

(2021) Enric Sala et al.   NATURE

Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet — if we act now

(2021) Cécile A. J. Girardin et al.   NATURE

Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources

(2021) Judith A. Rosentreter et al.   Nature Geoscience

Global warming is causing a more pronounced dip in marine species richness around the equator

(2021) Chhaya Chaudhary et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet

(2021) Johan Rockström et al.   Earths Future

Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism

(2021) Unai Pascual et al.   Nature Sustainability

Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change

(2021) Luciana V. Gatti et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity needs every tool in the box: use OECMs

(2021) Georgina G. Gurney et al.   NATURE

Environmental performance of blue foods

(2021) Jessica A. Gephart et al.   NATURE

Integrate biodiversity targets from local to global levels

(2021) David O. Obura et al.   SCIENCE

The importance of species interactions in eco-evolutionary community dynamics under climate change

(2021) Anna Åkesson et al.   Nature Communications

Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades

(2021) David Gampe et al.   Nature Climate Change

Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

(2021) Martin Jung et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Towards a multidimensional biodiversity index for national application

(2021) C. A. Soto-Navarro et al.   Nature Sustainability

Equity in environmental governance: perceived fairness of distributional justice principles in marine co-management

(2021) Georgina G. Gurney et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Quantification of blue carbon pathways contributing to negative feedback on climate change following glacier retreat in West Antarctic fjords

(2021) Nadescha Zwerschke et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How do we best synergize climate mitigation actions to co‐benefit biodiversity?

(2021) Pete Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Why fossil fuel subsidies are so hard to kill

(2021) Jocelyn Timperley   NATURE

WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies

(2021) U. Rashid Sumaila et al.   SCIENCE

Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development

(2021) Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

High resolution global spatiotemporal assessment of rooftop solar photovoltaics potential for renewable electricity generation

(2021) Siddharth Joshi et al.   Nature Communications

Estimating global biomass and biogeochemical cycling of marine fish with and without fishing

(2021) Daniele Bianchi et al.   Science Advances

A seaweed aquaculture imperative to meet global sustainability targets

(2021) Carlos M. Duarte et al.   Nature Sustainability

Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems

(2021) Monica L. Noon et al.   Nature Sustainability

Global reforestation and biodiversity conservation

(2020) Krista M.S. Kemppinen et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Set a global target for ecosystems

(2020) James E. M. Watson et al.   NATURE

Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050

(2020) Ilona M. Otto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wind, sun, and wildlife: do wind and solar energy development “short-circuit” conservation in the western United States?

(2020) Mickey Agha et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Tree planting is not a simple solution

(2020) Karen D. Holl et al.   SCIENCE

The impact of interventions in the global land and agri‐food sectors on Nature’s Contributions to People and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

(2020) Pamela McElwee et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

(2020) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

Integrating environmental understanding into freshwater floatovoltaic deployment using an effects hierarchy and decision trees

(2020) Alona Armstrong et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Perspective: Increasing Blue Carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting

(2020) Narissa Bax et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

(2020) David Leclère et al.   NATURE

Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century

(2020) Sean L. Maxwell et al.   NATURE

Europe’s Green Deal offshores environmental damage to other nations

(2020) Richard Fuchs et al.   NATURE

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

(2020) Bernardo B. N. Strassburg et al.   NATURE

Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

(2020) Sandra Díaz et al.   SCIENCE

Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land

(2020) Michelle Ward et al.   Nature Communications

Species richness promotes ecosystem carbon storage: evidence from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments

(2020) Shan Xu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

(2019) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Effects of dam construction on biodiversity: A review

(2019) Haipeng Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

The uncertain future of protected lands and waters

(2019) Rachel E. Golden Kroner et al.   SCIENCE

Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions

(2019) Emmanuelle Cohen-Shacham et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C

(2019) O. Hoegh-Guldberg et al.   SCIENCE

The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry

(2019) T. W. Crowther et al.   SCIENCE

Three Global Conditions for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use: an implementation framework

(2019) Harvey Locke et al.   National Science Review

Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship

(2019) Carl Folke et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Global modeling of nature’s contributions to people

(2019) Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer et al.   SCIENCE

Perspectives on environmental impacts and a land reclamation strategy for solar and wind energy systems

(2019) Amalesh Dhar et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

(2019) Stephanie Roe et al.   Nature Climate Change

Native and non-native species for dryland afforestation: bridging ecosystem integrity and livelihood support

(2019) Orna Reisman-Berman et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Advancing the integration of ecosystem services and livelihood adaptation

(2019) Elizabeth G King et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Which practices co‐deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land degradation and desertification?

(2019) Pete Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Measuring the success of climate change adaptation and mitigation in terrestrial ecosystems

(2019) Michael D. Morecroft et al.   SCIENCE

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

(2019) Sandra Díaz et al.   SCIENCE

Influence of dimethyl sulfide on the carbon cycle and biological production

(2018) Shanlin Wang et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Large-scale bioenergy production: how to resolve sustainability trade-offs?

(2018) Florian Humpenöder et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Defining tipping points for social-ecological systems scholarship—an interdisciplinary literature review

(2018) Manjana Milkoreit et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects

(2018) Sabine Fuss et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity

(2018) Alexandre Antonelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage

(2018) Shiping Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The projected effect on insects, vertebrates, and plants of limiting global warming to 1.5°C rather than 2°C

(2018) R. Warren et al.   SCIENCE

Assessing nature's contributions to people

(2018) Sandra Díaz et al.   SCIENCE

Forest landscape restoration for livelihoods and well-being

(2018) James T Erbaugh et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Seagrass meadows support global fisheries production

(2018) Richard K.F. Unsworth et al.   Conservation Letters

Biologically representative and well-connected marine reserves enhance biodiversity persistence in conservation planning

(2018) Rafael A. Magris et al.   Conservation Letters

Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 °C

(2018) Joeri Rogelj et al.   Nature Climate Change

Amazon Tipping Point

(2018) Thomas E. Lovejoy et al.   Science Advances

Hydraulic diversity of forests regulates ecosystem resilience during drought

(2018) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   NATURE

Progress toward Equitably Managed Protected Areas in Aichi Target 11: A Global Survey

(2018) Noelia Zafra-Calvo et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Multi-level governance and power in climate change policy networks

(2018) Monica Di Gregorio et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Protect the last of the wild

(2018) James E. M. Watson et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic stresses on the world’s big rivers

(2018) Jim Best   Nature Geoscience

Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

(2018) Oswald J. Schmitz et al.   SCIENCE

Marine Renewable Energy in the Mediterranean Sea: Status and Perspectives

(2017) Takvor Soukissian et al.   Energies

Does the world have low-carbon bioenergy potential from the dedicated use of land?

(2017) Timothy D. Searchinger et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Off-stage ecosystem service burdens: A blind spot for global sustainability

(2017) Unai Pascual et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Effects of habitat disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

(2017) John Alroy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural climate solutions

(2017) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental conditions regulate the impact of plants on cloud formation

(2017) D. F. Zhao et al.   Nature Communications

The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna

(2017) Rodolfo C. R. Abreu et al.   Science Advances

Global coastal wetland change under sea-level rise and related stresses: The DIVA Wetland Change Model

(2016) Thomas Spencer et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda

(2016) Xuemei Bai et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities

(2016) Xuemei Bai et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Functional traits and adaptive capacity of European forests to climate change

(2015) Filippo Bussotti et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Co-productive governance: A relational framework for adaptive governance

(2015) Carina Wyborn   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Environmental issues associated with wind energy – A review

(2015) Kaoshan Dai et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

Climate velocity and the future global redistribution of marine biodiversity

(2015) Jorge García Molinos et al.   Nature Climate Change

Cross-sectoral interactions of adaptation and mitigation measures

(2014) Pam M. Berry et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Climate sensitivity across marine domains of life: limits to evolutionary adaptation shape species interactions

(2014) Daniela Storch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Animating the Carbon Cycle

(2013) Oswald J. Schmitz et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system

(2013) David M. Lapola et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Loss of Species: Mangrove Extinction Risk and Geographic Areas of Global Concern

(2010) Beth A. Polidoro et al.   PLoS One

Urban policy and governance in a global environment: complex systems, scale mismatches and public participation

(2010) Xuemei Bai et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical peatlands in south-east Asia

(2009) JOHN COUWENBERG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY