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A First Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Agricultural Peatlands in Canada: Evaluation of Climate Change Mitigation Potential WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-18 Maria Strack, Kelly Ann Bona, Chang Liang
Canada has a quarter of the world's peatlands accounting for an estimated 150 Gt of stored carbon. While over 98% of Canadian peatlands are intact, agriculture has been estimated as accounting for the greatest peatland disturbance by area. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from peatland agriculture can contribute a large proportion of national anthropogenic emissions for some countries. In Canada, estimates
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Cover Image, Volume 15, Issue 6 WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-16
The cover image is based on the article Corporations and climate change: An overview by Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.919.image
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The Promise of Resistance: A New Lens for Climate Change Adaptation Research and Practice WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-11 Megan Mills‐Novoa, Michael Mikulewicz
Over the years, thousands of climate change adaptation projects have been implemented globally. While there has been substantial scholarship on the extent and nature of adaptation efforts, fewer studies have examined why and how adaptation projects are being resisted. An analysis of resistance to adaptation offers critical insights to scholars and practitioners by recognizing the contentious nature
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Migration as Adaptation? The Falepili Union Between Australia and Tuvalu WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-11-04 Jon Barnett, Carol Farbotko, Taukiei Kitara, Bateteba Aselu
Australia and Tuvalu recently signed a unique treaty called the Australia‐Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty, on climate change adaptation, migration, and security. Here we analyze the treaty's migration provision which will enable citizens of Tuvalu to live and work in Australia. We ground our analysis in the state of knowledge about climate change and migration in Tuvalu, explaining the Falepili Union
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Adaptation and Peace: Extending the Agenda for Capacity‐Building in Climate and Conflict‐Affected Communities WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-24 Luisa Fernanda Bedoya Taborda, Michele L. Barnes, Tiffany H. Morrison
Climate change impacts on the social–ecological conditions that communities depend on may increase the vulnerabilities to new conflicts. Yet, the communities that will be most impacted by climate change, as noted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are already conflict‐affected communities. Here, we present the results of a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies
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Past Answers to Present Concerns. The Relevance of the Premodern Past for 21st Century Policy Planners: Comments on the State of the Field WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-16 John Haldon, Lee Mordechai, Andrew Dugmore, Merle Eisenberg, Georgina Endfield, Adam Izdebski, Rowan Jackson, Luke Kemp, Inga Labuhn, Thomas McGovern, Sarah Metcalfe, Kathleen D. Morrison, Timothy Newfield, Benjamin Trump
How is history relevant to the present, or indeed the future? Governments around the world have used history to inform planning and decision‐making in various fields for years, but more recently it has taken on a renewed importance as governments grapple with increasingly complex challenges arising from the impacts of climatic change. Yet identifying “lessons from the past” is not straightforward.
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Climate change mitigation policies in agriculture: An overview of sociopolitical barriers WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-03 Kayenat Kabir, Sophie de Vries Robbe, Catrina Godinho
The realization of the economic and technical potential of climate mitigation policies in agriculture is influenced by how sociopolitical issues are considered in policy development and implementation. Based on a narrative review of the literature, this article provides an overview of common sociopolitical barriers facing supply‐side and demand‐side mitigation measures in agriculture. Understanding
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Managing the decline of coal in a decarbonizing China WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Michael R. Davidson
Pressures to address climate change are eroding the privileged role coal has held in China throughout its modernization. Phasing down coal requires a suite of supply‐ and demand‐side tools to both reduce production (and therefore, maintain sufficiently high prices) and shift to coal alternatives across diverse consumption sectors. This review outlines contours of the coming coal transition by documenting
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Corporations and climate change: An overview WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-26 Christopher Wright, Daniel Nyberg
Corporations are primary emitters of greenhouse gases yet are also portrayed as key agents in responding to climate change. This overview article explains corporate responses to the climate crisis at three levels of analysis: (i) political (shaping the climate debate and influencing climate policy); (ii) organizational (enacting strategies and practices to address climate change); and (iii) individual
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Nonanthropocentric climate ethics WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 John Nolt, Trevor Hedberg
Anthropogenic climate change poses increasingly severe long‐term threats to living things worldwide. It may even contribute to a mass extinction that would leave biodiversity depleted for millions of years—quite possibly longer than the duration of the human species. Such effects are obviously of ethical concern, but because traditional ethical theories have focused on the relatively short‐term interests
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Who are the green transition experts? Towards a new research agenda on climate change knowledge WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Søren Lund Frandsen, Jacob A. Hasselbalch
Experts play a significant role in shaping global and local norms on how societies should respond to the climate crisis. However, current scholarship on the relationship between expertise and climate change has not fully addressed recent transformations in the field, specifically the emergence and increasingly influential role of what we term “green transition expertise.” We define green transition
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Fossil fuel industry influence in higher education: A review and a research agenda WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Sofia Hiltner, Emily Eaton, Noel Healy, Andrew Scerri, Jennie C. Stephens, Geoffrey Supran
The evolution of fossil fuel industry tactics for obstructing climate action, from outright denial of climate change to more subtle techniques of delay, is under growing scrutiny. One key site of ongoing climate obstructionism identified by researchers, journalists, and advocates is higher education. Scholars have exhaustively documented how industry‐sponsored academic research tends to bias scholarship
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Artificial intelligence for climate prediction of extremes: State of the art, challenges, and future perspectives WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Stefano Materia, Lluís Palma García, Chiem van Straaten, Sungmin O, Antonios Mamalakis, Leone Cavicchia, Dim Coumou, Paolo de Luca, Marlene Kretschmer, Markus Donat
Extreme events such as heat waves and cold spells, droughts, heavy rain, and storms are particularly challenging to predict accurately due to their rarity and chaotic nature, and because of model limitations. However, recent studies have shown that there might be systemic predictability that is not being leveraged, whose exploitation could meet the need for reliable predictions of aggregated extreme
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Sustainable urban planning needs stronger interdisciplinarity and better co‐designing: How ecologists and climatologists can fully leverage climate monitoring data WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Hélène Audusseau, Reto Schmucki, Solène Croci, Vincent Dubreuil
Research has provided considerable evidence that temperature significantly influences species biology. Its influence is so great that climate corridors have been proposed to assist species in tracking their climatic niche at macroecological scales, reinforcing the importance of accounting for this variable at all scales to address the climatic threat to biodiversity. This threat is exacerbated in cities
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Bring digital twins back to Earth WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Andrea Saltelli, Gerd Gigerenzer, Mike Hulme, Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, Lieke A. Melsen, Glen P. Peters, Roger Pielke, Simon Robertson, Andy Stirling, Massimo Tavoni, Arnald Puy
We reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as a machine. The projects of digital twins deviate from contemporary scientific paradigms in the treatment of complexity and uncertainty, and does not engage with critical and interpretative social sciences. We contest the utility of digital twins for addressing climate change issues
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Weather, heritage, and memory WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 George Adamson, Jessica Rapson
Sense of place and identity are related to the weather, and to memories and perceptions of what constitutes “normal” weather for a particular place. Weather is an important ingredient of cultural life; thus, long‐term changes to weather patterns can affect sense of place and sense of reality, although these changes will not be experienced uniformly. We argue that weather and climate should thus be
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The limits of “resilience”: Relationalities, contradictions, and re‐appropriations WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Jonathan S. Davies, Tania Arrieta
The concept of “resilience” is ubiquitous in global governance, extending from climate and ecological issues to practically all spheres of human endeavor. However, post‐pandemic discourses suggest that the concept may no longer be capable of synthesizing diverse and diverging geopolitical interests into common policy goals. Responding to what we see as an emerging “crisis of resilience,” we reconsider
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The ethics of climate change loss and damage WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Eike Düvel, Laura García‐Portela
In the last decade, the international community has become increasingly aware that some negative impacts of climate change cannot be prevented. During the COP19 in Warsaw in 2013, the parties who agreed to the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) acknowledged that there were already greater climate impacts than could be reduced by adaptation (UNFCCC, 2014). These impacts have been called “loss and
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Politicians and climate change: A systematic review of the literature WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Brendan Moore, Lucas Geese, John Kenny, Harriet Dudley, Andrew Jordan, Alba Prados Pascual, Irene Lorenzoni, Simon Schaub, Joan Enguer, Jale Tosun
Politicians' engagement with climate change is the focus of an emerging literature, but this research has not been subjected to systematic analysis. To address this important gap, we perform a systematic review of 141 articles on politicians and climate change published between 1985 and 2021. We find a growing research area; almost half of the articles were published after 2018. Existing research is
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Toward a complex socio‐environmental understanding of drought: The contribution of the social sciences and humanities WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Marc Elie
This review shows that there is a fertile field of study on drought within the humanities and social sciences that produces a complex scientific understanding of droughts as socio‐natural disasters whose origins, unfolding and impacts are shaped by both social and biophysical processes. Five cases where this research stands out are reviewed: the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the droughts in the Sahel in
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Opposing positions, dividing interactions, and hostile affect: A systematic review and conceptualization of “online climate change polarization” WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Christel W. van Eck
Online climate change polarization has increasingly received academic interest over time. Online media facilitate and accelerate processes of climate change polarization. Yet, throughout the years, online climate change polarization became a fuzzy concept, holding different meanings in different academic contexts. By reviewing the available evidence, the current article identified three ontological
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Supply‐side climate policy: A new frontier in climate governance WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Peter Newell, Freddie Daley
From the margins of climate governance, supply‐side policies that seek to restrict the production of climate‐heating fossil fuels and keep sizeable quantities of remaining reserves in the ground are gaining greater prominence. From national‐level production bans and phase‐out policies to divestment campaigns and the creation of “climate clubs,” such as the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA), an increasing
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Computational methods for climate change frame analysis: Techniques, critiques, and cautious ways forward WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Simon David Hirsbrunner
Frame analysis is a popular methodological paradigm to investigate how climate change is reported in the media, how it is negotiated by political actors, and perceived by publics. Its scope of application extends across various academic disciplines and transcends traditional boundaries of research such as those between quantitative and qualitative methods. Recent transformations of the media landscape
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Cross‐border dimensions of Arctic climate change impacts and implications for Europe WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Claire Mosoni, Mikael Hildén, Stefan Fronzek, Christopher P. O. Reyer, Timothy R. Carter
The Arctic has warmed almost four times faster than the rest of the globe during the past four decades. This has led to multiple impacts in the Arctic such as the melting of glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet, sea ice retreat, permafrost thaw, altered species distribution and abundance, changes in hydrology and snow conditions, and altered wildfire regimes. These documented and projected impacts
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Toward an evidence‐informed, responsible, and inclusive debate on solar geoengineering: A response to the proposed non‐use agreement WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Edward A. Parson, Holly J. Buck, Sikina Jinnah, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Simon Nicholson
A prominent recent perspective article in this journal and accompanying open letter propose a broad international “non‐use agreement” (NUA) on activities related to solar geoengineering (SG). The NUA calls on governments to renounce large‐scale use of SG, and also to refuse to fund SG research, ban outdoor experiments, decline to grant IP rights, and reject discussions of SG in international organizations
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Adaptation to climate change in the mountain regions of Central Asia: A systematic literature review WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Zarina Saidaliyeva, Veruska Muccione, Maria Shahgedanova, Sophie Bigler, Carolina Adler, Vadim Yapiyev
The mountains of Central Asia support many environmental functions and ecosystem services. The mountain environments and their services are affected by climate change and climate change adaptation (CCA) actions are required to increase resilience of regional communities. This paper is a systematic review of the English and Russian‐language literature published between 2013 (IPCC AR5) and May 2021 (IPCC
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Climate concepts for supporting political goals of mitigation and adaptation: The case for “climate crisis” WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Philipp Haueis
Climate concepts are crucial to understand the effects of human activity on the climate system scientifically, and to formulate and pursue policies to mitigate and adapt to these effects. Yet, scientists, policymakers, and activists often use different terms such as “global warming,” “climate change,” “climate crisis,” or “climate emergency.” This advanced review investigates which climate concept
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Toward global net zero: The voluntary carbon market on its quest to find its place in the post‐Paris climate regime WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Nicolas Kreibich
This focus article traces the evolution of the voluntary carbon market (VCM), putting emphasis on the more recent developments following the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015. It focuses on the interplay between the privately governed VCM and the global climate regime under the United Nations (UN). For years, the VCM and the UN carbon market operated in parallel and mutually influenced each other
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Colonial erasures in gender and climate change solutions WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Bernadette P. Resurrección
Despite deliberate moves to integrate gender with climate change solutions, efforts do not go far enough to account for coloniality, thus falling short of achieving feminist, just and transformative ends. Coloniality is a political blind spot and a systematic amnesia in climate policies and actions, despite being a key driver of climate change manifested through various forms of extractivism, economic
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A review of nature‐based infrastructures and their effectiveness for urban flood risk mitigation WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Md. Esraz‐Ul‐Zannat, Aysin Dedekorkut‐Howes, Edward Alexander Morgan
Anthropogenic climate change and rapid urbanization are contributing to more frequent and intense urban flooding. There is widespread agreement that traditional gray infrastructure, a single‐purpose solution, fails to address the problem properly and contributes to adverse direct and indirect environmental impacts. As such, Nature‐based Solutions (NbS) can provide improved outcomes to flood risk management
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How does science and technology studies contribute to climate mitigation research? Advanced review of infrastructure as a concept and method WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Antti Silvast, Mikko J. Virtanen, Govert Valkenburg, Rico Kongsager
The objective of this paper is to review how Science and Technology Studies (STS) has contributed to climate change mitigation research. We focus on large‐scale infrastructures as a key topic of both mitigation efforts and recent STS scholarship. The paper assesses the conceptual and methodological treatments in this field, uses literature evidence to identify research gaps, and suggests potential
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Climate change and migration: A review and new framework for analysis WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Gabrielle Daoust, Jan Selby
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Green New Deals in comparative perspective WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Fergus Green
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Greener through gender: What climate mainstreaming can learn from gender mainstreaming WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Steven Lam, Gloria Novović, Kelly Skinner, Hung Nguyen‐Viet
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Climate change science is evolving toward adaptation and mitigation solutions WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Danial Khojasteh, Milad Haghani, Abbas Shamsipour, Clara C. Zwack, William Glamore, Robert J. Nicholls, Matthew H. England
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Policy for material efficiency in homes and cars: Enabling new climate change mitigation strategies WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Reid Lifset, Edgar Hertwich, Tamar Makov
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Traditional knowledge for climate resilience in the Pacific Islands WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Patrick D. Nunn, Roselyn Kumar, Hannah M. Barrowman, Lynda Chambers, Laitia Fifita, David Gegeo, Chelcia Gomese, Simon McGree, Allan Rarai, Karen Cheer, Dorothy Esau, 'Ofa Fa'anunu, Teddy Fong, Mereia Fong‐Lomavatu, Paul Geraghty, Tony Heorake, Esau Kekeubata, Isoa Korovulavula, Eferemo Kubunavanua, Siosinamele Lui, David MacLaren, Philip Malsale, Sipiriano Nemani, Roan D. Plotz, Gaylyn Puairana, Jimmy
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Adaptation pathways for effective responses to climate change risks WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Veruska Muccione, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Peter Alexander, Birgit Bednar‐Friedl, Robbert Biesbroek, Elena Georgopoulou, Gonéri Le Cozannet, Daniela N. Schmidt
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Participation and co-production in climate adaptation: Scope and limits identified from a meta-method review of research with European coastal communities WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Julian V. Sartorius, Alistair Geddes, Alexandre S. Gagnon, Kathryn A. Burnett
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Three tales of central banking and financial supervision for the ecological transition WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 William Oman, Mathilde Salin, Romain Svartzman
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Perspectives on Indigenous well-being and climate change adaptation WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Sergio Jarillo, Carlos Crivelli
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The next phase of WIREs Climate Change WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Daniel A. Friess, Maria Carmen Lemos
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Challenges in the attribution of river flood events WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Paolo Scussolini, Linh Nhat Luu, Sjoukje Philip, Wouter R. Berghuijs, Dirk Eilander, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Sarah F. Kew, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Willem H. J. Toonen, Jan Volkholz, Dim Coumou
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Russia in a changing climate WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Debra Javeline, Robert Orttung, Graeme Robertson, Richard Arnold, Andrew Barnes, Laura Henry, Edward Holland, Mariya Omelicheva, Peter Rutland, Edward Schatz, Caress Schenk, Andrei Semenov, Valerie Sperling, Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Mikhail Troitskiy, Judyth Twigg, Susanne Wengle
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The effects of climate change on the natural rate of interest: A critical survey WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Francesco Paolo Mongelli, Wolfgang Pointner, Jan Willem van den End
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Climate catastrophe: The value of envisioning the worst-case scenarios of climate change WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Joe P. L. Davidson, Luke Kemp
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Climate justice and territory WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Alejandra Mancilla, Patrik Baard
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Varieties of approaches to constructing physical climate storylines: A review WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Marina Baldissera Pacchetti, Liese Coulter, Suraje Dessai, Theodore G. Shepherd, Jana Sillmann, Bart Van Den Hurk
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Could a minimalist lifestyle reduce carbon emissions and improve wellbeing? A review of minimalism and other low consumption lifestyles WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Rebecca Blackburn, Zoe Leviston, Iain Walker, Ashley Schram
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Turning climate justice into practice? Channeling loss and damage funding through national social protection systems in climate-vulnerable countries WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Jona Huber, Una Murray
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Fossil fuels, stranded assets, and the energy transition in the Global South: A systematic literature review WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Augusto Heras, Joyeeta Gupta
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Seaweed as climate mitigation solution: Categorizing and reflecting on four climate mitigation pathways WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Sander W. K. van den Burg, Sophie J. I. Koch, Marnix Poelman, Jeroen Veraart, Trond Selnes, Edwin M. Foekema, Romy Lansbergen
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Three decades of EU climate policy: Racing toward climate neutrality? WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Claire Dupont, Brendan Moore, Elin Lerum Boasson, Viviane Gravey, Andrew Jordan, Paula Kivimaa, Kati Kulovesi, Caroline Kuzemko, Sebastian Oberthür, Dmytro Panchuk, Jeffrey Rosamond, Diarmuid Torney, Jale Tosun, Ingmar von Homeyer
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From eco-theology to eco-skepticism: How American Latter-day Saint environmental perspectives changed over time, and how they may change again WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Madeleine Ary Hahne
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The impacts of land-use and climate change on the Zoige peatland carbon cycle: A review WIREs Clim. Chang. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Paul P. J. Gaffney, Qiuhong Tang, Quanwen Li, Ruiyang Zhang, Junxiao Pan, Ximeng Xu, Yuan Li, Shuli Niu