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CLIMATE POLICY

From political to climate crisis

Nature Climate Change volume 8, pages 663–664 (2018)Cite this article

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Political crises may exacerbate environmental conflicts by shifting conservation priorities. Research now shows that increased carbon emissions from deforestation in Brazil may compromise its goals under the Paris Agreement.

IAMs combine models from different areas of knowledge and are typically used to explore possible future developments, providing information on alternative emission scenarios subject to various model assumptions (such as climate policy, land uses and physical or technological constraints on energy systems). Rochedo et al.4 combine a spatially explicit land-use model with an optimization model for the Brazilian energy and land-use systems and explore three possible scenarios for future deforestation.

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