Emission scenario analysis for China under the global 1.5 °C target
“In the Paris Agreement, there are targets set up for 2100 to be well below 2 °C. A more ambitious target of 1.5 °C also appears in the agreement. In …
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Improved climate change understanding and projections for coal businesses create urgent need to initiate stronger measures toward coalbed methane in India
“In this opinion paper, we contend that in light of recent findings and the expected future of Indian coal business, fugitive methane emissions from coal mining and handling activities may …
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Quantifying carbon for agricultural soil management: from the current status toward a global soil information system
“The importance of building/maintaining soil carbon, for soil health and CO2 mitigation, is of increasing interest to a wide audience, including policymakers, NGOs and land managers. Integral to any approaches …
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Carbon emissions and the trilemma of trade policy, migration policy and health care in the US
“Although the United States has consistently experienced a recent declining growth in carbon dioxide emissions, the country is currently the largest emitter of CO2 after China and suffers a biocapacity reserve …
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Mapping rice greenhouse gas emissions in the Red River Delta, Vietnam
“Rice greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Red River Delta, Vietnam, were mapped using multiscale satellite imagery and a processed-based biogeochemical model. Multiscale synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical imagery …
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Climate-smart land use requires local solutions, transdisciplinary research, policy coherence and transparency
“Successfully meeting the mitigation and adaptation targets of the Paris Climate Agreement (PA) will depend on strengthening the ties between forests and agriculture. Climate-smart land use can be achieved by …
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Carbon management in the logistics and transportation sector: an overview and new research directions
“While many studies have addressed the issue of environmental sustainability within the supply chain as a whole, so far no attempt has been made to specifically investigate the current status …
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Sequestration of native soil organic carbon and residue carbon in complex agroecosystems
“Knowing short-term gains and losses of soil organic carbon (SOC) is crucial for understanding the role of different land management practices in climate change mitigation. This study evaluated the flow …
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Fixing greenhouse gas accounting at the city scale
“The GPC, and most other, prior community-scale protocols like it, evolved from IPCC-based GHG accounting rules developed at the national scale, and where principles such as completeness, comparability and accuracy …
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Will the world meet the climate change challenge?
“One of the most striking graphics in the recently published IPCC assessment reports did not make it into the Summary for Policy Makers but was used by the IPCC chair …
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