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Large-scale land transactions (LSLTs) can precipitate dramatic changes in land systems. Ethiopia has experienced one of the largest amounts of LSLTs in Africa, yet their effects on local land systems are poorly understood. In this study, we quantify the direct and indirect land use and land cover (LULC) changes associated with LSLTs at eight socio-environmentally

Publication date: March 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 193 Author(s): Max Tesselaar, W.J. Wouter Botzen, Peter J. Robinson, Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts, Fujin Zhou

International Maritime Organization lacks urgency needed to tackle climate crisis, say campaigners A decision by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its member states not to revise its emissions reduction strategy until the spring of 2023 has been criticised as “dangerous” by environmental campaigners. At the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting, convened by the

Jessie Greengrass’s novel The High House, set in a flood-devastated Suffolk, was one of several of the nominees to focus on global heating, said judges Jessie Greengrass’s vision of a near-future Britain drowned by an apocalyptic flood, part of the expanding genre of climate-change fiction, is among the books shortlisted for the 2021 Costa book

The climate emergency is a ‘child’s crisis’, say families unhappy about fossil fuel company’s tie-up with learn-to-swim program Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Parents have spoken out against a sponsorship deal that gives the fossil fuel company Woodside Energy naming rights over a children’s learn-to-swim program, saying the climate emergency

Publication date: March 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 193 Author(s): Maria Theresia Konrad, Line Block Hansen, Gregor Levin, Gitte Blicher-Mathiesen, Hans Estrup Andersen, Louise Martinsen, Berit Hasler