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Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Open
The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific literature relevant to climate change impacts, adaptation and vu…
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Impact of Climate Change on Crops Adaptation and Strategies to Tackle Its Outcome: A Review Open
Agriculture and climate change are internally correlated with each other in various aspects, as climate change is the main cause of biotic and abiotic stresses, which have adverse effects on the agriculture of a region. The land and its ag…
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Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges Open
There is growing awareness that ‘nature-based solutions' (NbS) can help to protect us from climate change impacts while slowing further warming, supporting biodiversity and securing ecosystem services. However, the potential of NbS to prov…
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Global Warming of 1.5°C Open
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future r…
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The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C Open
The need to stabilize global climate Climate change will be the greatest threat to humanity and global ecosystems in the coming years, and there is a pressing need to understand and communicate the impacts of warming, across the perspectiv…
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Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions Open
The rapid anthropogenic climate change that is being experienced in the early twenty-first century is intimately entwined with the health and functioning of the biosphere. Climate change is impacting ecosystems through changes in mean cond…
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Climate Change and Land Open
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate …
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A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change Open
Assessing global progress on human adaptation to climate change is an urgent priority. Although the literature on adaptation to climate change is rapidly expanding, little is known about the actual extent of implementation. We systematical…
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Time to integrate global climate change and biodiversity science‐policy agendas Open
There is an increasing recognition that, although the climate change and biodiversity crises are fundamentally connected, they have been primarily addressed independently and a more integrated global approach is essential to tackle these t…
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A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation strategies, and mitigation options in the socio-economic and environmental sectors Open
Climate change causes long-term weather changes from the tropics to the polls. It is a global threat that strains several sectors. The present study conducts a review analysis that theoretically explores how climatic variability is degradi…
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Climate Change, Land, Water, and Food Security: Perspectives From Sub-Saharan Africa Open
The current and projected warming of the earth is unequivocal with humans playing a strong role as both perpetrators and victims. The warming on the African continent is projected to be greater than the global average with an increased ave…
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Lessons From the Pacific Islands – Adapting to Climate Change by Supporting Social and Ecological Resilience Open
By necessity, Pacific Islands have become hubs of innovation, where climate strategies are piloted and refined to inform adaptation efforts globally. Pacific Island ecosystems are being degraded by pollution, overfishing, and unsustainable…
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Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction Open
Climate change manifestation in the ocean, through warming, oxygen loss, increasing acidification, and changing particulate organic carbon flux (one metric of altered food supply), is projected to affect most deep‐ocean ecosystems concomit…
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Mangrove forests under climate change in a 2°C world Open
The world's nations are committed to keeping global temperature rises to less than 2°C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Such a target is crucial for mangrove forests, because they are located primarily in tropical and subtropi…
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The influence of ecosystems services depletion to climate change adaptation efforts in Africa Open
Climate change is one of the major challenges societies round the world face at present. Apart from efforts to achieve a reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases so as to mitigate the problem, there is a perceived need for adaptation ini…
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Robust climate change research: a review on multi-model analysis Open
Significant differences in key results across the various climate models and integrated assessment models (IAMs) represent a critical challenge to reliable scientific findings and the robust design of climate policies, which leads to an en…
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Stabilization of global temperature at 1.5°C and 2.0°C: implications for coastal areas Open
The effectiveness of stringent climate stabilization scenarios for coastal areas in terms of reduction of impacts/adaptation needs and wider policy implications has received little attention. Here we use the Warming Acidification and Sea L…
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Global Potato Yields Increase Under Climate Change With Adaptation and CO2 Fertilisation Open
The contribution of potatoes to the global food supply is increasing—consumption more than doubled in developing countries between 1960 and 2005. Understanding climate change impacts on global potato yields is therefore important for futur…
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Climate change and uncertainty from ‘above’ and ‘below’: perspectives from India Open
Climate-related uncertainty refers to the inability to predict the scale, intensity, and impact of climate change on human and natural environments. Debates of uncertainty in climate change have emerged as a 'super wicked' problem for scie…
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Size‐based ecological interactions drive food web responses to climate warming Open
Predicting climate change impacts on animal communities requires knowledge of how physiological effects are mediated by ecological interactions. Food‐dependent growth and within‐species size variation depend on temperature and affect commu…
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Climate Change Adaptation Measures for Buildings—A Scoping Review Open
As the climate changes globally and locally, the built environment will be subject to different climatic exposure than in the past. Adaptation measures are required to ensure the long-term integrity and successful operation of the built en…
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Declines in global ecological security under climate change Open
Ecological security is the state when an ecosystem maintains its stability under external stress. Due to climate change and the increase in human activities since the 20th century, the rapid decline in global ecological security has threat…
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Designing connected marine reserves in the face of global warming Open
Marine reserves are widely used to protect species important for conservation and fisheries and to help maintain ecological processes that sustain their populations, including recruitment and dispersal. Achieving these goals requires well‐…
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Enabling Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Systems: A Systematic Literature Review Open
Climate change poses increasingly severe risks for coastal ecosystems and coastal communities all around the globe. This condition requires implementing climate adaptation policy and advancing scientific knowledge to adapt to the current a…
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Charting pathways to climate change mitigation in a coupled socio-climate model Open
Geophysical models of climate change are becoming increasingly sophisticated, yet less effort is devoted to modelling the human systems causing climate change and how the two systems are coupled. Here, we develop a simple socio-climate mod…
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Increasing Risk of Ecological Change to Major Rivers of the World With Global Warming Open
The hydrological characteristics of a river, including the magnitude and timing of high and low flows, are important determinants of its ecological functioning. Climate change will alter these characteristics, triggering ecological changes…
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North American birds require mitigation and adaptation to reduce vulnerability to climate change Open
In an emerging climate crisis, effective conservation requires both adaptation and mitigation to improve the resilience of species. The currently pledged emissions reductions outlined in the Paris Agreement framework would still lead to a …
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Global climate adaptation governance: Why is it not legally binding? Open
In the last decade, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has moved from a strong focus on mitigation to increasingly address adaptation. Climate change is no longer simply about reducing emissions, but also about enabl…
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Climate change adaptation in fisheries Open
We conducted a global systematic literature review of climate change adaptation in fisheries. We addressed three specific questions: (i) What are fisheries adapting to? (ii) How are fisheries adapting? and (iii) What research gaps need to …
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Review of Climate Change and Its effect on Nigeria Ecosystem Open
This paper examines the issue of climate change and its impact on the environment. The effects of man’s activities as well as those of natural phenomena on global warming, climate change and the environment are presented and discussed. The…