Anthropocene risk

PW Keys, V Galaz, M Dyer, N Matthews, C Folke… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The potential consequences of cross-scale systemic environmental risks with global effects
are increasing. We argue that current descriptions of globally connected systemic risk poorly …

Biodiversity's contributions to sustainable development

M Blicharska, RJ Smithers, G Mikusiński… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
International concern to develop sustainably challenges us to act upon the inherent links
between our economy, society and environment, and is leading to increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Recent third pole's rapid warming accompanies cryospheric melt and water cycle intensification and interactions between monsoon and environment …

T Yao, Y Xue, D Chen, F Chen… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle
Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary …

A new scenario logic for the Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal

J Rogelj, D Huppmann, V Krey, K Riahi, L Clarke… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
To understand how global warming can be kept well below 2 degrees Celsius and even 1.5
degrees Celsius, climate policy uses scenarios that describe how society could reduce its …

Global and regional impacts of climate change at different levels of global temperature increase

NW Arnell, JA Lowe, AJ Challinor, TJ Osborn - Climatic Change, 2019 - Springer
The assessment of the impacts of climate change at different levels of global warming helps
inform national and international policy discussion around mitigation targets. This paper …

Risk management and decision making in relation to sustainable development

M Hurlbert, J Krishnaswamy, FX Johnson… - 2019 - diva-portal.org
Executive summary Increases in global mean surface temperature are projected to result in
continued permafrost degradation and coastal degradation (high confidence), increased …

Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements

D Yumashev, C Hope, K Schaefer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Arctic feedbacks accelerate climate change through carbon releases from thawing
permafrost and higher solar absorption from reductions in the surface albedo, following loss …

Energy, CO2 emissions, and value added flows embodied in the international trade of the BRICS group: A comprehensive assessment

Z Zhang, L Xi, S Bin, Z Yuhuan, W Song, L Ya… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The BRICS economies group (ie, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) has become
an important contributor to the growth of the world economy, which is increasingly …

Crop vulnerability to weather and climate risk: Analysis of interacting systems and adaptation efficacy for sustainable crop production

EH Elias, R Flynn, OJ Idowu, J Reyes, S Sanogo… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate change is increasing mean and extreme temperatures in the Southwestern United
States, leading to a suite of changes affecting agricultural production. These include …

[PDF][PDF] Low-Lying Islands and Coasts

AK Magnan, M Garschagen, JP Gattuso, JE Hay… - 2019 - cdn.climatepolicyradar.org
Ocean and cryosphere changes already impact Low-Lying Islands and Coasts (LLIC),
including Small Island Developing States (SIDS), with cascading and compounding risks …