Essential outcomes for COP26

Pete Smith; Linda Beaumont; Carl J. Bernacchi; Maria Byrne; William Cheung; Richard T. Conant; Francesca Cotrufo; Xiaojuan Feng; Ivan Janssens; Hefin Jones; Miko U. F. Kirschbaum; Kazuhiko Kobayashi; Julie LaRoche; Yiqi Luo; Andrew McKechnie; Josep Penuelas; Shilong Piao; Sharon Robinson; Rowan F. Sage; David J. Sugget; Stephen J. Thackeray; Danielle Way; Stephen P. Long

doi:10.1111/gcb.15926

Essential outcomes for COP26

Pete Smith^* (Corresponding Author), Linda Beaumont, Carl J. Bernacchi, Maria Byrne, William Cheung, Richard T. Conant, Francesca Cotrufo, Xiaojuan Feng, Ivan Janssens, Hefin Jones, Miko U. F. Kirschbaum, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Julie LaRoche, Yiqi Luo, Andrew McKechnie, Josep Penuelas, Shilong Piao, Sharon Robinson, Rowan F. Sage, David J. SuggetStephen J. Thackeray, Danielle Way, Stephen P. Long

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The UK Government is hosting COP26 in Glasgow between 31st October and 12th November 2021. It plans to make progress in four key areas which summarize as ‘coal, cars, cash and trees’ (Carbon Brief, 2021). The first two of these aims—to get agreement for the rapid phase out of coal, the most polluting of fossil fuels, and to ensure a rapid transition away for cars fuelled by fossil fuels—are very important, but are not directly related to the remit of Global Change Biology. The latter two aims—ensuring that the financial support of $100 billion per year promised in 2010 by wealthy countries to developing countries finally gets delivered and ensuring that climate solutions adopted also co-deliver to nature—are squarely within the remit of Global Change Biology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Global Change Biology
Volume	28
Issue number	1
Early online date	25 Oct 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15926
Publication status	Published - Jan 2022

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Data sharing not applicable—no new data generated, or the article describes entirely theoretical research.

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General Environmental Science
Ecology
Environmental Chemistry
Global and Planetary Change

UN SDGs

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Smith, P., Beaumont, L., Bernacchi, C. J., Byrne, M., Cheung, W., Conant, R. T., Cotrufo, F., Feng, X., Janssens, I., Jones, H., Kirschbaum, M. U. F., Kobayashi, K., LaRoche, J., Luo, Y., McKechnie, A., Penuelas, J., Piao, S., Robinson, S., Sage, R. F., ... Long, S. P. (2022). Essential outcomes for COP26. Global Change Biology, 28(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15926

Smith, P, Beaumont, L, Bernacchi, CJ, Byrne, M, Cheung, W, Conant, RT, Cotrufo, F, Feng, X, Janssens, I, Jones, H, Kirschbaum, MUF, Kobayashi, K, LaRoche, J, Luo, Y, McKechnie, A, Penuelas, J, Piao, S, Robinson, S, Sage, RF, Sugget, DJ, Thackeray, SJ, Way, D & Long, SP 2022, 'Essential outcomes for COP26', Global Change Biology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15926

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