Journal article
Ten new insights in climate science 2020-a horizon scan
E Pihl, E Alfredsson, M Bengtsson, KJ Bowen, V Cástan Broto, KT Chou, H Cleugh, K Ebi, CM Edwards, E Fisher, P Friedlingstein, A Godoy-Faúndez, M Gupta, AR Harrington, K Hayes, BM Hayward, SR Hebden, T Hickmann, G Hugelius, T Ilyina Show all
Global Sustainability | Published : 2021
DOI: 10.1017/sus.2021.2
Abstract
Non-Technical summary We summarize some of the past year's most important findings within climate change-related research. New research has improved our understanding of Earth's sensitivity to carbon dioxide, finds that permafrost thaw could release more carbon emissions than expected and that the uptake of carbon in tropical ecosystems is weakening. Adverse impacts on human society include increasing water shortages and impacts on mental health. Options for solutions emerge from rethinking economic models, rights-based litigation, strengthened governance systems and a new social contract. The disruption caused by COVID-19 could be seized as an opportunity for positive change, directing econ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
VCB was supported by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Grant Agreement No. 804051-LOACT ERC-2018-Stg. PF was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under 4C (Grant Agreement No. 821003). AGF was supported by ANID/FONDAP/15130015. SRH was supported by the European Space Agency (ESA). GH was supported by The European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation project Nunataryuk (773421). TH acknowledges support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 821471 (ENGAGE). TI acknowledges support by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 821003 (4C) and European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 641816 (CRESCENDO). TFK acknowledges support by the Reducing Uncertainties in Biogeochemical Interactions through Synthesis and Computation Scientific Focus Area (RUBISCO SFA), which is sponsored by the Regional and Global Model Analysis (RGMA) Program in the Climate and Environmental Sciences Division (CESD) of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. NN acknowledges support from Global Affairs Canada. PR-L acknowledges support by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308. JoP was supported by the European Research Council Synergy grant (ERC-SyG-2013-610028 IMBALANCE-P), the Spanish Government grant PID2019-110521GB-I00 and the Catalan government grant SGR2017-1005. AAS was supported by the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme funded by BEIS and Defra. ES acknowledges support from NSF PLR Arctic System Science Research Networking Activities (RNA) Permafrost Carbon Network: Synthesizing Flux Observations for Benchmarking Model Projections of Permafrost Carbon Exchange, Grant no. 1931333. (2019-2023). SCS's work was supported by the Australian Research Council grant FL150100035. GBS would like to acknowledge the International Research Fellow programme of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. PHCT's work was supported by a share of a grant from The Sao Paulo Research Foundation -FAPESP (grant number 2018/06685-9). EF acknowledges support from the Nordic Africa Institute. AMU acknowledges support from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023). The effort of MDZ was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC5207NA27344 and was supported by the Regional and Global Model Analysis Program of the Office of Science at the DOE.