Record emissions are fast shrinking the remaining amount of carbon dioxide we can emit if we are to limit global warming. At current rates, we’ll use up the budget for a 1.5°C outcome in seven years.
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Planting trees and preventing deforestation can store carbon in nature, but the effect may only be temporary. If we also eliminate emissions from fossil fuels, even this temporary effect is important.
Many see carbon markets as key to channelling billions of dollars into reducing carbon emissions and protecting forests, but they also put the well-being of communities at risk.
The changing dynamic between Borneo’s pigs and Indigenous people is a powerful reminder of the fragility of the human-nature connection.
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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Associate Professor of Law, McGill University
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Affiliate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professor, S.J. Hall Chair in Forest Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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Postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Science, Trinity College
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Researcher and Lecturer in Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
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Senior lecturer, Universiti Malaysia Sabah’s Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Indigenous Knowledge
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Senior Research Associate with the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Health, and the Environment, McGill University
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Simon Fraser University
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Concordia University
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Distinguished Professor of Climate Science, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Physical Geography and Land Use Systems, Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Helmholtz Young Investigator group leader and deputy head, Marine Biogeosciences section a Alfred Wegener Institute, Universität Bremen
