Steering the EU food system towards a sustainability transformation requires a vast and actionable knowledge base available to a range of public and private actors. Few have captured this complexity by assessing food systems from a multi-dimensional …
Projected increases in population, income and consumption rates are expected to lead to rising pressure on the land system. Ambitions to limit global warming to 2 C or even 1.5 C could also lead to additional pressures from land-based mitigation …
Food insecurity can be directly exacerbated by climate change due to crop-production-related impacts of warmer and drier conditions that are expected in important agricultural regions13. However, efforts to mitigate climate change through …
As the EU is moving towards a low carbon economy and seeks to further develop its renewable energy policy, this paper quantitatively investigates the impact of plausible energy market reforms from the perspective of bio-renewables. Employing a …
Recent research shows that the combined contributions of deforestation, forest degradation and peat land emissions account for about 15 of greenhouse gas emissions. The REDD policy which preserves forests and values standing forests, enables …