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Articles

Separating land carbon uptake from net-zero emissions

Published 19.11.2024

How are net zero emissions defined? It matters. It is the difference between either halting or continuing global warming, writes senior researcher Glen Peters in this blog about a new study published in Nature.

Wetlands as game-changers for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Published 16.10.2023

Wetlands are natural water ecosystems that can help to mitigate the physical impacts of multi-hazards and extreme events. Despite its high potential, wetlands have been overlooked and are rarely considered in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes, argues CICERO researchers together with Wetlands International Europe.

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Projects

NorSink - Norway’s carbon sink under climate change

How is carbon dioxide uptake changing in Norway and how may it be affected by climate change? NorSink will provide the most comprehensive assessment of Norway’s carbon budget to date, to understand drivers of recent change and model the potential future impact of climate change.

Carbon budget | Forests | Land use | Norwegian climate policy

GREENLEAP

Greening Achilles heel sectors: Understanding environmental policy change in Latin American primary industries. An introduction to the research project GREENLEAP.

Land use | Technology for change | Renewable energy

LAMACLIMA – Land Management for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation

The LAMACLIMA project aims to advance the understanding of the coupled effects between land cover and land management, climate and the economy, informing sustainable land-based adaptation and mitigation.

Climate impacts internationally | Forests | Food and agriculture | Heat waves | Land use

Local environmental agreements' contribution to sustainable land and transport development

In this project we looked at the potential of comprehensive urban environment agreements to achieve sustainable housing, area and transport development

Land use | Transport | Climate transition in Norwegian municipalities

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Events

14 May

Norway’s carbon uptake under climate change

Norwegian forests and land areas absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide every year, but this carbon uptake has unexpectedly declined about 40% in the last decade. This jeopardises climate targets and means more carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere, leading to additional global warming. Norway is not alone, with many European countries seeing the same trends.

18 November

COP30: Greening Achilles’ heel sectors: Possibilities and barriers to climate policies in Latin American primary industry sectors

Latin America has a unique biodiversity and abundant natural resources, making the region’s climate politics indispensable for attaining global environmental targets. Most Latin American countries also have large export-oriented primary industries like fossil-fuel extraction, mining, and industrial agriculture.

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Research groups

Climate and health

The climate and health research group is an interdisciplinary group with strong competence within a range of areas of relevance to health impact assessment.

Climate and nature risk

The research group models and analyzes climate impacts on nature, society and the economy, performs scenario analyses, and conducts stress tests based on its knowledge and expertise in using climate and economic models and climate and other environmental data.

Climate System

The Climate System group conducts research to understand the physical changes and evolution of the global and regional climate system, the underlying driving human-induced and natural processes, and the subsequent consequences.

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