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The new government has big plans to modernize the economy and switch to renewable energy. But the question remains how it will pay for it.
The Polisario Front has released an unofficial climate plan for the Sahrawi people, saying Morocco has built wind and solar farms on their land without consent
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The Polisario Front has released an unofficial climate plan for the Sahrawi people, saying Morocco has built wind and solar farms on their land without consent
The post Morocco accused of “greenwashing occupation” of Western Sahara appeared first on Climate Home News.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 November 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01225-0
Since the Paris Agreement, the impacts of 1.5 and 2 °C global warming have been emphasized, but the rate of warming also has regional effects. A new framework of model experiments is needed to increase our understanding of climate stabilization and its impacts.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 November 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01230-3
Trees outside of forests are numerous and can be important carbon sinks, while also providing ecosystem services and benefits to livelihoods. New monitoring tools highlight the crucial contribution they can make to strategies for both mitigation and adaptation.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 November 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01223-2
The authors project future rates of temporal and spatial displacement of climate and land-use in protected areas (PAs), and show that more than one-quarter of the world’s PAs are highly threatened, with particular risk to PAs across tropical moist and grassland biomes.