2021/10/26 by Pamela McElwee · 1 citation
Environmental Science · #Forest Management and Policy #Environmental Conservation and Management
paper · doi:10.1525/curh.2021.120.829.295
openalex publication_date 2021/10/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/23
While often treated separately, biodiversity loss and climate change are related and mutually reinforcing problems. Rising temperatures and other climate impacts have seriously altered the composition, function, and structure of many ecosystems and species, some irreversibly. Policies to tackle both problems are clearly needed, but siloed approaches continue to dominate proposed solutions. There are also risks that some climate policies, such as the expansion of afforestation or bioenergy, will have increasingly negative risks on biodiversity. Integrated, innovative, and urgent solutions are needed in order to fulfill increasing calls for transformative change in how we live with nature.