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Sumaila UR, Tai TC, Lam VWY, et al. (2019) Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and
people, Sci. Adv., 5, 2, eaau3855. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau3855 Abstract The Paris Agreement aims to mitigate the potential impacts of climate…...
The Regional Initiative for the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Arab Region (RICCAR) is the outcome of the first Arab Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change (2007), which recognized the potential impacts that…...
Morán-Ordóñez A, Roces-Díaz JV, Otsu K, Ameztegui A, Coll L, Lefevre F, Retana J, Brotons L (2019)
The use of scenarios and models to evaluate the future of nature values and ecosystem services in
Mediterranean forests. Reg. Environ. Chang., 19,…...
Highlights Dryland areas are vital ecosystems, highly sensitive to climatic changes. New higher resolution climate projections used to examine future aridity for RCP8.5 The drylands could increase by an additional 7% of the global land surface by 2100. Up to…...
Balzan MV, Pinheiro AM, Mascarenhas A, Morán-Ordóñez A, Ruiz-Frau A, Carvalho-Santos C,
Vogiatzakis I, Arends J, Santana-Garcon J, Roces-Díaz JV, Brotons L, Campagne CS, Roche P, de
Miguel S, Targetti S, Drakou E, Vlami V, Baró F, Geijzendorffer I (2019)…...
Graphical abstract AbstractRapid anthropogenic climate change is a major threat to ocean biodiversity, increasing the challenge for marine conservation. Strategic conservation planning, and more recently marine spatial planning (MSP) are among the most promising management tools to operationalize and enforce…...