Understanding the implications of alternative bioenergy crops to support smallholder farmers in Brazil

Research article by Paola Sakai, Stavros Afionis, Nicola Favretto, Lindsay Stringer, Caroline Ward, Marco Sakai on 8 Dec 2020

Sakai P, Afionis S, Favretto N, Stringer L, Ward C, Sakai M, Weirich Neto PH, Rocha CH, Gomes JA, de Souza NM and Afzal N. 2020. Understanding the implications of alternative bioenergy crops to support smallholder farmers in Brazil. Sustainability 12: 2146. doi:10.3390/su12052146

Delivering climate-development co-benefits through multi-stakeholder forestry projects in Madagascar: opportunities and challenges.

Research article by Nicola Favretto, Lindsay Stringer, Andy Dougill, Claire Quinn on 8 Dec 2020

Favretto N, Afionis S, Stringer LC, Dougill AJ, Quinn CH, Ranarijaona Tiana HL. 2020. Delivering climate-development co-benefits through multi-stakeholder forestry projects in Madagascar: opportunities and challenges. Land 9: 157. https://doi.org/10.3390/land9050157

Reviving global cooperation in challenging times

Policy publication by Amar Bhattacharya, Homi Kharas, Nicholas Stern, Chunping Xie on 25 Nov 2020

The world is currently facing two crises of potentially immense proportions: COVID-19 and climate change. The response to both must be global, urgent and on great scale, argue the authors of this paper, as they outline the need for a sustainable recovery, and also the importance of China’s role.

Distributional issues in natural capital accounting: An application to land ownership and ecosystem services in Scotland

Working paper by Giles Atkinson, Paola Ovando on 18 Nov 2020

This paper examines the significance of the ownership of natural capital in the context of natural capital accounting, illustrated with regard to two ecosystem services – carbon sequestration and air pollution removal – and a range of ecosystem types and land ownership in Scotland.

New build homes, flood resilience and environmental justice – current and future trends under climate change across England and Wales

Working paper by Viktor Rözer, Swenja Surminski on 3 Nov 2020

The authors find that new homes built in economically deprived parts of England and Wales between 2008 and 2018 are more likely, compared with new housing in more affluent areas, to become exposed to high flood risk over their lifetime as a result of climate change.

From rescue to recovery: towards a sustainable transition for China after the COVID-19 pandemic

Policy publication by Ehtisham Ahmad, Nicholas Stern, Chunping Xie on 3 Nov 2020

This paper sets out the role for the coordinated development of clean, compact and connected (CCC) cities alongside the restructuring of existing metropolitan areas, and describes the necessary drivers of structural change, in the economic recovery phase in China.

Climate Change and the Governance of Corporations: Lessons from the Retail Sector

Book by Andy Gouldson on 22 Oct 2020

Climate change represents the most important environmental challenge of our time. Organisations are responding by implementing governance processes and taking action to reduce their own emissions and the emissions from their supply chains and value chains. Yet very little is known about how these efforts contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (if, indeed, they make […]

Crop switching reduces agricultural losses from climate change in the United States by half under RCP 8.5

Research article by James Rising on 5 Oct 2020

A key strategy for agriculture to adapt to climate change is by switching crops and relocating crop production. We develop…

COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution