Scaling up gas and electric cooking in low- and middle-income countries: climate threat or mitigation strategy with co-benefits?

Environmental Research Letters IOP Publishing 18:3 (2023) 034010

Authors:

Emily Floess, Andrew Grieshop, Elisa Puzzolo, Dan Pope, Nicholas Leach, Christopher J Smith, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Katherine Landesman, Rob Bailis

Pathways to achieving nature-positive and carbon–neutral land use and food systems in Wales

Regional Environmental Change Springer 23:1 (2023) 37

Authors:

Sarah M Jones, Alison C Smith, Nicholas Leach, Peter Henrys, Peter M Atkinson, Paula A Harrison

Abstract:

Land use and its management can play a vital role in carbon sequestration, but trade-offs may exist with other objectives including food security and nature recovery. Using an integrated model (the FABLE calculator), four pathways, co-created with colleagues at the Welsh Government, towards achieving climate and biodiversity targets in Wales were explored: status quo, improvements on current trends, land sparing and land sharing. We found that continuing as usual will not be sufficient to meet Wales’s climate and biodiversity targets. In contrast, the land use and agricultural sector became a net carbon sink in both the land sparing and land sharing pathways, through high afforestation targets, peatland restoration, reducing food waste and moving towards a healthier diet. Whilst both pathways released land for biodiversity, the gains were greater in the land sharing pathway, which was also less dependent on optimistic assumptions concerning productivity improvements. The results demonstrate that alternative approaches to achieving nature-positive and carbon–neutral land use and food systems may be possible, but they come with stringent and transformative requirements for policy changes, with an integrated approach necessary to maximise benefits for climate, food and nature.

On the interaction of stochastic forcing and regime dynamics

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Copernicus Publications 30:1 (2023) 49-62

Authors:

Joshua Dorrington, Tim Palmer

Assessing the Impact of Ocean In Situ Observations on MJO Propagation Across the Maritime Continent in ECMWF Subseasonal Forecasts

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems American Geophysical Union (AGU) 15:2 (2023)

Authors:

Danni Du, Aneesh C Subramanian, Weiqing Han, Ho‐Hsuan Wei, Beena Balan Sarojini, Magdalena Balmaseda, Frederic Vitart

Tropical Cyclones in Global High-Resolution Simulations using the IPSL Model

(2023)

Authors:

Stella Bourdin, Sébastien Fromang, Arnaud Caubel, Josefine Ghattas, Yann Meurdesoif, Thomas Dubos