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Arctic at risk from vast Belt and Road development

  1. Hong Yang

    1. Reading University, UK.

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    1. University College London, UK.

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Infrastructure expansion and energy exploitation in the Arctic under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) could affect climate as well as key ecosystems (see Nature 569, 5; 2019). These huge projects risk accelerating carbon release by inducing permafrost thaw (see, for example, M. Turetsky et al. Nature 569, 32–34; 2019). In our view, international monitoring of the situation is necessary so that such changes can be incorporated into holistic climate-change assessments.

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Nature 570, 446 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01977-y

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