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After a relative slowdown trend since 2012 and three years of remaining flat, global energy-related CO2 emissions grew by 1.4% in 2017, reaching a historic high of 32.5...

Sustainable Development Goals, European Union portal Towards a Sustainable Europe by 2030 -- Reflection paper -- assessment of the EU’s performance on the Sustainable Development Goals...

Approximately 20-30% of the Earth’s vegetated surface shows persistent declining trends in productivity over the past 20 years. This is mainly due to land and water use, as well...

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Co-extinction - simulated scenarios assessing co-extinction potential causes and impacts based on synergies among extinction drivers. E3ME - Energy, Environment, Economy Model...

Efforts have to increase for developing strategies to address the root causes of anthropogenic climate change, as well as for building resilience for some of the most severe impacts of climate change...

Since China, USA, EU28, India, Russia and Japan are the world’s largest GHG emitters (pdf) - accounting for some 65% of total GHG emissions -...

Greenhouse gas emissions and pollution Greenhouse gas emissions and pollution are increasing, largely driven by economic and population growth. Meantime, the Earth’s biodiversity and resilience shows...

Continued high GHG emissions would lead to mostly negative impacts for biodiversity, ecosystem services and economic development and amplify risks for livelihoods and for food and human security...