Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Overcoming global inequality is critical for land-based mitigation in line with the Paris Agreement

  • Florian Humpenöder,
  • Alexander Popp,
  • Carl-Friedrich Schleussner,
  • Anton Orlov,
  • Michael Gregory Windisch,
  • Inga Menke,
  • Julia Pongratz,
  • Felix Havermann,
  • Wim Thiery,
  • Fei Luo,
  • Patrick v. Jeetze,
  • Jan Philipp Dietrich,
  • Hermann Lotze-Campen,
  • Isabelle Weindl,
  • Quentin Lejeune

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35114-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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In a world of deepening inequalities, climate polices might be feasible in high-income countries only. Here the authors find that overcoming global inequality through sustainable socio-economic development is critical for land-based mitigation in line with the Paris Agreement.