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 …

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

C Folke, S Polasky, J Rockström, V Galaz, F Westley… - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized
world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding …

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

P Meyfroidt, A De Bremond, CM Ryan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation,
climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we …

Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism

U Pascual, WM Adams, S Díaz, S Lele, GM Mace… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The lack of progress in reversing the declining global trend in biodiversity is partly due to a
mismatch between how living nature is conceived and valued by the conservation …

Towards food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks

KF Davis, S Downs, JA Gephart - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Environmental variability and shock events can be propagated or attenuated along food
supply chains by various economic, political and infrastructural factors. Understanding these …

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

S Díaz, J Settele, ES Brondízio, HT Ngo, J Agard… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Human actions have long been known to drive declines in nature, and there
is growing awareness of how globalization means that these drivers increasingly act at a …

[HTML][HTML] Why the Great Food Transformation may not happen–A deep-dive into our food systems' political economy, controversies and politics of evidence

C Béné - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper explores the conditions under which the changes leading to the Great
Transformation of food systems called upon by a growing number of international experts …

The blue acceleration: the trajectory of human expansion into the ocean

JB Jouffray, R Blasiak, AV Norström, H Österblom… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Does humanity's future lie in the ocean? As demand for resources continues to grow and
land-based sources decline, expectations for the ocean as an engine of human …

The impacts of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems and reliant human communities

SC Doney, DS Busch, SR Cooley… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism. Gender binarism. Together, they comprise intimately
harmful, distinct, and entangled societal systems of self-serving domination and privilege …

Understanding the role of green bonds in advancing sustainability

A Maltais, B Nykvist - Journal of sustainable finance & investment, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Green bonds are one of the most prominent innovations in the area of sustainable finance
over the past decade. However, to date there have only been a few academic studies on …