Publications by authors named "Ramon Pichs-Madruga"
Article Synopsis
- To address environmental degradation, societies need to redefine their relationship with nature, aiming for a sustainable future as outlined by the Convention of Biological Diversity.
- The Nature Futures Framework was created to explore various perspectives on achieving ecological harmony, providing a platform for developing scenarios and narratives about desirable futures.
- The paper assesses six different narratives within the framework, focusing on key debates about land use and economic development, ultimately suggesting that this approach can help shape transformative pathways for a sustainable relationship with nature.
Climate change and loss of biological diversity are global challenges, linked to each other and to other socioeconomic and environmental challenges. These interlinkages have been discussed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), valuable references for multilateral negotiations in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), whose Conference of the Parties (COP) convenes in November, and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), whose COP convened in October. In the past year, in recognition of common challenges and opportunities, the IPCC and IPBES formally collaborated for the first time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLong-term global scenarios have underpinned research and assessment of global environmental change for four decades. Over the past ten years, the climate change research community has developed a scenario framework combining alternative futures of climate and society to facilitate integrated research and consistent assessment to inform policy. Here we assess how well this framework is working and what challenges it faces.
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