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Risks to global food security continue to accumulate, driven by low economic growth prospects and increased uncertainty related to climate shocks. In this context, fostering climate adaptation...

Key messages: Increasing agricultural productivity growth sustainably is necessary to address the triple challenge of providing sufficient affordable and nutritious food for a growing global population, while...

Redesigning the European food system on the basis of circularity principles could bring environmental benefits for Europe and the world. Here we deploy a biophysical optimization model to explore...

Carbon dioxide emissions from boreal forest fires have been increasing since at least the year 2000, reaching a new high in 2021, Zheng et al. report...

In this contribution, we propose a quantification of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from wastewater collection, treatment and discharge in Europe, taking into account the use of electricity and reagents, construction of the infrastructure...

FLUXES, the European Greenhouse Gas Bulletin is a new publication by ICOS, the Integrated Carbon Observation System, which aims at highlighting climate issues to an audience of policymakers, policy...

The present dataset gives quantitative and qualitative information on the local mitigation policies implemented to achieve the 20% carbon reduction target (as in the first CoM timeframe) by local...

The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) is the largest dedicated international initiative to promote climate action at city level, covering globally over 10,000 cities...

This dataset provides the default emission factors utilized in the framework of the Covenant of Mayors Initiative. They can be used by local authorities to estimate their CO2 or Greenhouse...

This data article relates to and complement the research paper: 'Assessment of climate change mitigation policies in 315 cities in the Covenant of Mayors initiative' [1]. The reported data has...