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Image 1: Bushfires on December 31, 2019 burning along the east coast of Australia. The brown area is burned vegetation with a width of about 50 km and a length of 100 km. Source: European Space Agency (ESA), contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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Image 2: Wildfires on August 19, 2020 burning on the West Coast of the USA in California. Source: European Space Agency (ESA), contains Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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Image 3: Wildfires on July 25, 2021 in the Sakha Republic, Siberia (Russia) close to the Arctic cycle. Source: European Space Agency (ESA), contains Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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Image 4: Wildfires on August 1, 2020 in the Amazon in Brazil. Source: NASA Earth Observatory, image acquired by Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

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With #COP26 underway, we are at a critical moment in meeting the #ParisAgreement. Let’s seize the opportunity to shift towards low-carbon, healthier, and more resilient societies.

Future Earth, the World Climate Research Programme, and the Earth League have published the 10 Insights in Climate Science 2021 report to help policy makers and the public better understand what is needed: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science

#10ClimateInsights

More than 50 leading global researchers have collaborated to produce the 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2021, a horizon scan of research that addresses our ongoing #climatecrisis.

This year’s report covers megafires, growing methane emissions, and the need for just climate action, among other critical science findings – as well as their implications for local, regional, and global policy.

Explore this year’s insights here: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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The new 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2021 highlights critical research on and policy implications for our ongoing #climatecrisis.

By @FutureEarth @WCRP_climate @TheEarthLeague.

👉 https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

Releasing at #COP26, this year’s 10 New Insights in #Climate Science covers megafires, methane emission, and more.

Explore the report from @FutureEarth, @WCRP_climate, and @TheEarthLeague here: 👉 https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

#Science must inform #policy – this year’s 10 New Insights in #Climate Science offers research trends and implications for decision makers, compiled by 54 leading scientists.

Explore them here: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights #COP26

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Staying within 1.5°C will require transformations across all sectors, including deep decarbonization, and drastic coordinated global action to support lower-income countries in making climate-smart transitions as well as holding the highest emitters to account.

 Join Future Earth, the World Climate Research Programme and the Earth League in calling for more ambitious cuts to curb our #climatecrisis.

To learn more, check out 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2021: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights
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 New estimates show that rapid reductions of 2 gigatonnes of CO2 per year are required to keep warming to within 1.5°C, with net zero emissions reached by 2040.

 Join @FutureEarth @TheEarthLeague and @WCRP_climate in calling for more ambitious emission cuts: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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Emissions of both methane and nitrous oxide from the agricultural sector are the main cause of their large growth, with waste treatment in landfills and fugitive emissions from fossil fuel extraction major sources of methane.

Discover 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2021, a report by Future Earth, the Earth League, the World Climate Research Programme and partners. https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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Nitrous oxide and methane emissions are derailing efforts to stay within 1.5°C of global warming. Agriculture, waste treatment, and landfills are major culprits.

Learn more: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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Large greenhouse gas emissions released by megafires enhance positive fire-climate feedback, which sustain and worsen conditions that increase the likelihood of even more devastating wildfires.

Worsening fire regimes (more frequent fires, more intense fires) also come with increased risks to respiratory and cardiovascular health, birth outcomes and mental health for rural and urban communities.

Read the #10ClimateInsights from 2021 to learn more: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science

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We are entering a new age of intensifying extreme fire regimes (megafires), worsened by anthropogenic climate change according to @FutureEarth @WCRP_climate and @TheEarthLeague.

Read their #10ClimateInsights from 2021: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science

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Some tipping elements, for example melting ice sheets and changes to ocean currents, but also deforestation of rainforests, influence each other, with recent research indicating that interactions among tipping elements can ultimately cause shifts to happen at lower levels of global warming than anticipated.

Read more on the #10ClimateInsights from 2021: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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We are entering a new age of intensifying extreme fire regimes (megafires), worsened by anthropogenic climate change according to @FutureEarth @WCRP_climate and @TheEarthLeague.

Read their #10ClimateInsights from 2021: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science

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A just distribution of the carbon budget would require the richest 1% of the global population to reduce their current emissions by at least a factor of 30, while per capita emissions of the poorest 50% of the global population could increase by around three times their current levels on average.

Learn more about the #10ClimateInsights of 2021 here:

👉 https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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Just sustainability transitions could require the richest 1% to cut their emissions by a factor of 30 or more.

Learn more about the #10ClimateInsights of 2021 at:

https://2021.10insightsclimate.science @FutureEarth @WCRP_climate @TheEarthLeague

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In order to stay within the 1.5°C target it is necessary to at least halve mean global household CO2 emissions by 2030, with very steep reductions required for wealthy households (e.g. the wealthiest 10% in the EU will have to cut their footprint by almost 90%).

 📌 Download a copy of #10ClimateInsights 2021 now: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science

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Fighting climate change means making changes in lifestyles, particularly for the wealthy, to complement efficiency and decarbonization strategies, according to @FutureEarth @WCRP_climate @TheEarthLeague: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights
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Limited global coverage and generally low price levels mean that carbon prices have only had a small impact on emission trajectories.

Learn more in this year’s 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2021:

👉 https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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Limited global coverage and generally low price levels mean that carbon prices have only had a small impact on emission trajectories.

Read more: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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Nature-based Solutions can offer multiple benefits to climate, ecosystems and societies, especially in less developed and developing country contexts, but must not replace or delay decarbonization efforts in other sectors.

Read 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2021 to learn why: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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Nature-based Solutions can offer multiple benefits to climate, ecosystems and societies, but must not replace or delay decarbonization efforts in other sectors.

➡️ https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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Protecting the oceans as a carbon sink including marine sediments and vegetation that bind substantial carbon stocks (“blue carbon”) is an important climate change mitigation action.

Learn more about insight number nine in the new report, 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2021, by Future Earth, the World Climate Research Programme, and the Earth League.

👉 https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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Protecting the oceans as a carbon sink is an important climate change mitigation action.

#10ClimateInsights @FutureEarth @TheEarthLeague @WCRP_climate

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Improvements in health and economic data availability, including in low- and middle-income countries, have strengthened the science of climate change mitigation and its resulting health co-benefits, says Future Earth, the World Climate Research Programme, and the Earth League in their recently published report, 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022.

Download the report: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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When it comes to climate change, the #health benefits are of higher economic value than the cost of mitigation policies.

Learn more: https://2021.10insightsclimate.science #10ClimateInsights

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Martin, M. A., Alcaraz Sendra, O., Bastos, A., Bauer, N., Bertram, C., Blenckner, T., Bowen, K., Brando, P. M., Rudolph, T.B., Büchs, M., Bustamante, M., Chen, D., Cleugh, H., Dasgupta, P., Denton, F., Donges, J. F., Donkor, F.K., Duan, H., Duarte, C. M., Ebi, K. L., Edwards, C.M., Engel, A., Fisher, E., Fuss, S., Gaertner, J., Gettelman, A., Girardin, C. A.J., Golledge, N. R., Green, J. F., Grose, M. R., Hashizume, M., Hebden, S., Hepach, H., Hirota, M., Hsu, H.H., Kojima, S., Lele, S., Lorek, S., Lotze, H. K., Matthews, H. D., McCauley, D., Mebratu, D., Mengis, N., Nolan, R. H., Pihl, E., Rahmstorf, S., Redman, A., Reid, C. E., Rockström, J., Rogelj, J., Saunois, M., Sayer, L., Schlosser, P., Sioen, G.B., Spangenberg, J.H., Stammer, D., Sterner, T.N.S., Stevens, N., Thonicke, K., Tian, H., Winkelmann, R., Woodcock, J. (2021). Ten new insights in climate science 2021: a horizon scan. Global Sustainability, 4(e25), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2021.25

10 New Insights in Climate Science

A year of climate-related science in review

Each year we consult researchers and carry out a horizon scan in fields related to climate change on what the latest findings and most important new emerging fields are. We summarize this in 10 important scientific insights, and the result has always been a rich and valuable scientific synthesis for policy and society at large, a testament to the ever-expanding and improving knowledge of our planetary climate systems and the interactions with the human world.
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10 New Insights in Climate Science in Japanese

A year of climate-related science in review

Each year we consult researchers and carry out a horizon scan in fields related to climate change on what the latest findings and most important new emerging fields are. We summarize this in 10 important scientific insights, and the result has always been a rich and valuable scientific synthesis for policy and society at large, a testament to the ever-expanding and improving knowledge of our planetary climate systems and the interactions with the human world.

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Acknowledgements

The full authoring team and other contributors are listed here. The making of this report has been led by Future Earth, The Earth League and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). We also gratefully acknowledge support from Arizona State University (ASU), GERICS Climate Service Center Germany (an institution of Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon),

 We acknowledge the work of the following individuals in their respective capacities:

Produced by: Future Earth, The Earth League, Azote, and the World Climate Research Programme
Website, graphics and publication design: Cultivate Communications, Azote

10 New Insights in Climate Science

A year of climate-related science in review

The full authoring team and other contributors are listed here. The making of this report has been led by Future Earth, The Earth League and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). We also gratefully acknowledge support from Arizona State University (ASU), GERICS Climate Service Center Germany (an institution of Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon),

 We acknowledge the work of the following individuals in their respective capacities:

Produced by: Future Earth, The Earth League, Azote, and the World Climate Research Programme
Website, graphics and publication design: Cultivate Communications, Azote

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Acknowledgements

The making of this report has been led by Future Earth, The Earth League and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). We also gratefully acknowledge support from Arizona State University (ASU), GERICS Climate Service Center Germany (an institution of Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon),

 We acknowledge the work of the following individuals in their respective capacities:

Produced by: Future Earth, The Earth League, and the World Climate Research Programme
Website, graphics and publication design: Cultivate Communications