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Global analysis of the proposed benefits from REDD+ projects: influencing factors and discrepancies

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad993c

Published: January 17, 2025 00:00

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) in developing countries was initially envisioned to incentivize forest protection through payments for ecosystem services (PES). Nevertheless, our global understanding of REDD+ project…

Washed away: industrial capital, labor, and floods

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad9d5c

Published: January 17, 2025 00:00

This study quantifies the dynamic impacts of floods on industrial capital and labor in India using a novel dataset combining geocoded flood events with firm facility-level data from 2000 to 2021. Employing a stacked difference-in-differences approach with…

Divergent impacts of soil desiccation on atmospheric water vapor–temperature responses regulated by evapotranspiration

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ada6df

Published: January 17, 2025 00:00

Climate warming induces temporally varying atmospheric water vapor (WV), yet the spatial distribution of opposing trends across global land remains elusive. Here, we use the monthly European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis v5 dataset…

Incorporating climate data with machine learning can improve rice phenology estimation

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ada56e

Published: January 17, 2025 00:00

Crop phenology provides essential information for crop management and production. Satellite-based methods are commonly used for phenology estimation but still struggle to capture interannual variations of phenological events. The importance of climate…

Measure-and-remeasure as an economically feasible approach to crediting soil organic carbon at scale

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ada16c

Published: January 17, 2025 00:00

Agricultural carbon crediting predominantly relies on process-based biogeochemical models to estimate accrual of soil organic carbon stock (SOC). We investigate the conditions under which it may be economical to estimate SOC accrual by measuring and…

Green hydrogen in the iron and steel industry increases resilience against shocks in energy prices

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ada2b3

Published: January 17, 2025 00:00

Geopolitical tensions and conflicts can disrupt energy markets, threatening international energy supply security and imposing financial stress on energy-intensive industries reliant on imported fossil fuels. Exploring the challenges and opportunities…

Satellite monitoring of annual US landfill methane emissions and trends

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ada2b1

Published: January 16, 2025 00:00

We use satellite observations of atmospheric methane from the TROPOMI instrument to estimate total annual methane emissions for 2019–2023 from four large Southeast US landfills with gas collection and control systems. The emissions are on average 6× higher…

The establishment of blue-sky index: how to quantify the aerosol optical impacts on sky color

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad9340

Published: January 16, 2025 00:00

Color of the sky serves as a direct indicator of haze, while also exerting substantial influence on human physiological and psychological well-being, as well as the overall environmental scenery. However, quantifying color changes is quite challenging.…

Entry points for assessing ‘fair shares’ in national mitigation contributions

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ada45f

Published: January 16, 2025 00:00

Fairness considerations have long been central to the international climate change mitigation discourse, generating numerous scientific and philosophical debates. Yet, there remains a pressing need for practical guidance on developing assertions of…

Snow-cover seasonality in Kyrgyzstan: variation and change over 20 years (2001–2021) as observed by the MODIS Terra snow product

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad9c98

Published: January 14, 2025 00:00

Snow seasonality is expected to change as a result of planetary warming. Yet, how the timings of snow seasons have already shifted in mountain environments can be counterintuitive. Here, we update our 2018 analyses of snow seasonality in Kyrgyzstan (KG)…