Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

HO Pörtner, RJ Scholes, A Arneth, DKA Barnes… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

[HTML][HTML] Highly renewable energy systems in Africa: Rationale, research, and recommendations

AS Oyewo, S Sterl, S Khalili, C Breyer - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
This review paper, the first to examine Africa's state of the art fully renewable energy system
analyses, assesses the status and findings of 100% renewable energy system analyses for …

Quantifying the human cost of global warming

TM Lenton, C Xu, JF Abrams, A Ghadiali, S Loriani… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical
issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the 'human climate …

[HTML][HTML] Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

P Ditlevsen, S Ditlevsen - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major tipping element in the
climate system and a future collapse would have severe impacts on the climate in the North …

World scientists' warning of a climate emergency 2022

WJ Ripple, C Wolf, JW Gregg, K Levin, J Rockström… - 2022 - academic.oup.com
Earth. Humanity is unequivocally facing a climate emergency. The scale of untold human
suffering, already immense, is rapidly growing with the escalating number of climaterelated …

Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model

N Wunderling, R Winkelmann, J Rockström… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Current policies and actions make it very likely, at least temporarily, to overshoot the Paris
climate targets of 1.5–< 2.0° C above pre-industrial levels. If this global warming range is …

Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers

S Willcock, GS Cooper, J Addy, JA Dearing - Nature Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
A major concern for the world's ecosystems is the possibility of collapse, where landscapes
and the societies they support change abruptly. Accelerating stress levels, increasing …

Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action

WJ Ripple, C Wolf, TM Lenton, JW Gregg, SM Natali… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Many feedback loops significantly increase warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.
However, not all of these feedbacks are fully accounted for in climate models. Thus …

The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory

WJ Ripple, C Wolf, JW Gregg, J Rockström… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several
decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic …

Scientific novelty beyond the experiment

JE Hallsworth, Z Udaondo, C Pedrós‐Alió… - Microbial …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Practical experiments drive important scientific discoveries in biology, but theory‐based
research studies also contribute novel—sometimes paradigm‐changing—findings. Here, we …