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Marine and coastal ecosystems play a crucial role in keeping people and the planet healthy. They are home to millions of species, provide water, food, livelihoods and energy...

Global net land carbon uptake or net biome production (NBP) has increased during recent decades. Whether its temporal variability and autocorrelation have...

The Carbon Flows report is a compilation of supply and demand of fossil and renewable carbon on a global and European level. It provides a comprehensive understanding of today’s carbon flows and what...

For many years the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis have been treated as separate issues, but the reality – as highlighted on Wednesday at COP27 - is that there is no viable...

With the world in the midst of the first global energy crisis – triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine – the World Energy Outlook 2022 (WEO) provides indispensable analysis...

The Planet Positive Chemicals report provides an unprecedented blueprint for the future of the industry, exploring how it can reinvent itself as a climate solution, operate within planetary...

Assessing critical energy technologies for global clean energy transitions

Tropical forests take up more carbon (C) from the atmosphere per annum by photosynthesis than any other type of vegetation. Phosphorus (P) limitations to C uptake are paramount...

Using engineered wood for construction has been discussed for climate change mitigation. It remains unclear where and in which way the additional demand for wooden construction...

The presence and absence of snow cover dominates the large-scale spatial patterns of the land surface albedo for 2020. The most prominent feature was a stron reduction in albedo in Europe...