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Food consumption, diet shifts and associated non-CO2 greenhouse gases from agricultural production. Data are shown relative to 2020 for five scenarios at regional level for the years 2050 and 2100. Secondary forest includes modified and regrown forest, e.g., following wood harvest or cropland abandonment. Land-use intensification, an indicator of human-induced crop yield amplification due to technological change, increases in all regions over time, with higher growth rates in low- and middle-income regions compared to high-income regions (Fig. In such pathways, the majority of GHG emission reductions in the land system is expected to come from low- and middle-income countries, which currently account for a large share of emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU). PubMedGoogle Scholar. Proc. Change Biol. Google Scholar. A new billionaire is created every 26 hours, according to Oxfam, an international aid and research group where I used to work. 1, 3). Model. Model Dev. Therefore, a second objective of the co-development process was to identify how the narratives could be implemented in the MAgPIE model while retaining the characteristics of their distinct essences. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35114-7, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35114-7. FILE - Lauryn Hill performs at the Essence Festival on Friday, June 30, 2023, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. It's important to know this. Emissions in Global-Inequality are largely caused by non-CO2 emissions from agriculture in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, with global levels of 2.4GtCO2eqyr1 for N2O and 5.5GtCO2eqyr1 for CH4 in 2050 (Fig. Is Americas inflationary fever breaking. Herzfeld, T., Heinke, J., Rolinski, S. & Mller, C. Soil organic carbon dynamics from agricultural management practices under climate change. Nat. 6). In light of the closing window for reaching the global 1.5C target11, it seems highly relevant to study how (in)compatible AFOLU GHG emissions in a world of deepening inequalities would be with the Paris Agreement climate objectives6. Res. Lett. Environ. Extending AFOLU GHG emission pricing to the global level under unequal socio-economic development would achieve the stringent emission reductions required. 3, 8). In Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2019). also acknowledges funding from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (project PERSIST: Persistent Summer Extremes, grant 016.Vidi.171.011). Interlinkages between desertification, land degradation, food security and greenhouse gas fluxes: Synergies, trade-offs and integrated response options. Asia shows by far the strongest reduction, followed by high-income regions. The category of environmental protection targets the impacts of agricultural production on land and water resources (Table3). The scenario co-development process was concluded by an additional online meeting organized half a year after the scenario co-development workshop, which allowed to share first results of the scenario simulations obtained using MAgPIE with the group of stakeholders and validation that the protocol followed when conducting the simulations matched the choices made jointly during the workshop. A globally coordinated price on AFOLU GHG emissions in the scenario Global-GHG Price strongly reduces deforestation and conversion of non-forest natural land in all regions. Land-based mitigation includes a price on AFOLU GHG emissions, re/afforestation, and bioenergy. In the combined scenario, Global-Sustainability, declining food demand, and global GHG emission pricing interact, which virtually brings deforestation to halt in all regions, increases non-forest natural land in all regions, and increases re/afforestation mostly in Latin America. The World Inequality Lab, housed at the Paris School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley, has answered this call by coordinating research into the latest trends in the accumulation and distribution of income and wealth on every continent. One Earth 5, 142156 (2022). To obtain During the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, global inequality increased dramatically, reflecting widening disparities between countries' per capita income as advanced economies took off sharply compared with the rest of the world. Supplementary Dataset2 includes raw data for all figures in the manuscript. Gray solid lines in a show median values across 1.5C compatible illustrative mitigation pathways (LD, Ren, SP) from the IPCC AR6 Scenarios Database24. Interactive versions of all figures are available at https://magpiemodel.github.io/showcase/lamaclimascenarios. Unlike other sectors such as energy, industry, and transport, the relative contribution of AFOLU to overall GHG emissions is typically higher in developing than in developed countries2. Some countries have reduced the numbers of people living in extreme poverty. Inequality tends to be greater in developing countries than wealthier ones. 5). These two main scenarios are complemented by three intermediate scenarios for decomposing the drivers for the transformation from Global-Inequality towards Global-Sustainability (Table1): Global AFOLU GHG emission pricing (Global-GHG Price), global sustainable land-use practices (Global-EnvirProt) and global inclusive socio-economic development (Global-SustDemand). At the global level, agricultural water use in 2050 is 29% lower in Global-Sustainability compared to Global-Inequality (Fig. All visualizations, data, and code produced by Our World in Data are completely open access under the Creative Commons BY . In such sustainable transformation pathways, global GHG emission pricing is often complemented with global-scale inclusive socio-economic development (a convergence of all countries towards, e.g., the same demographic profiles, lower food waste levels, and healthy diets) and sustainable land-use practices (e.g., ecosystem protection and efficiency improvements)7,8. On the contrary, lower AFOLU GHG emissions like in our Global-Sustainability scenario could reduce the mitigation burden of other sectors. To avoid our results being biased by the values of single years, we calculate in a post-processing step an average value by applying a low-pass filter that distributes annual net CO2 emissions over time, while making sure that the time integral over the modeled period remains the same. Cropland includes food, non-food, and feed crops. A Lesson in German Military History with Peter Wilson, In his landmark book Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500, acclaimed historian Peter H. Wilson offers a masterful reappraisal of German militarism and warfighting over the last five centuries, leading to the rise of Prussia and the world wars. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative. When the wealthy in the United States earn money from capital gains, the highest tax rate they pay is 20%, whereas the highest income earners are on the hook for as much as 37% on every additional dollar they earn. 4). Environ. CO2 includes emissions from land-use change such as deforestation and conversion of non-forest ecosystems, as well as removals from re/afforestation and natural succession on abandoned agricultural land. LinkedIn. Counteracted by rising (population-weighted) within-country inequality; reached plateau recently. This step was conducted jointly by consortium scientists and stakeholders, and resulted in a concrete list of choices that helped refine their narratives as well as laid the ground for the simulation of both scenarios described in this study. 21 January 2020 Economic Development Inequality is growing for more than 70 per cent of the global population, exacerbating the risks of divisions and hampering economic and social development.. 3d). MAgPIE combines economic and biophysical approaches to simulate spatially explicit global scenarios of land use within the 21st century and the respective interactions with the environment (Fig. Estimates of the investment gap (i.e., the additional investments required above current trends) for meeting SDGs 24 in low- and middle-income countries are in the range of up to a few hundred billion USD per year for each of these SDGs30. 3). Data are shown at global level for five scenarios. Our model-based projections highlight that overcoming global inequality is critical for land-based mitigation in line with the Paris Agreement. Then, the bulk of the co-development occurred during a 2-day online workshop of twice 5-hour sessions organized on April 14-15 2021. Data are shown at regional and global levels for the two main scenarios Global-Inequality (same for Global-GHG Price and Global-EnvirProt) and Global-Sustainability (same for Global-SustDemand). This sub-section provides a summary of the main scenario results for the year 2050 with a focus on co-benefits and trade-offs between land-based mitigation and other SDGs (Fig. Below, Wilson answers our questions about this complex history, , About & Contact | Awards | Catalogs | Conferences | eBooks | Exam Copies | News | Order | Rights | Permissions | Search | Shopping Cart | Subjects & Series, Resources for: Authors | Booksellers & Librarians | Educators | Journalists, Harvard University Press offices are located at 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA & 8 Coldbath Square, London EC1R 5HL UK, HUP Privacy Policy | Harvard University Additional EEA Privacy Disclosures | Harvard University Digital Accessibility Policy, 2023 President and Fellows of Harvard College, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Development: Economic Development, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Public Policy: Economic Policy, Watch Milanovic lecture on the political implications of the important changes in the global distribution of income at a July 2017 event at the London School of Economics and Political Science, read a transcript of their longer discussion about the chart, Watch Professor Milanovics discussion with Paul Krugman and Janet Gornick, Director of CUNYs Luxembourg Income Study Center, at a CUNY Graduate Center panel, Listen to Milanovic discuss inequality on a global scaleand its effects on war and mass migrationon Texas Public Radios, Read an analysis (for the lay reader) of one of Milanovics theoriesthat of the elephant curveat. This eventually resulted in the identification of two contrasting scenario narratives: one in which the whole world would follow a path towards sustainable development enabling the achievement of climate and environmental objectives (referred to as Global-Sustainability); and one characterized by widening inequalities between the OECD90+EU countries over which emphasis is put on achieving sustainability objectives locally, and all other countries where these objectives are not met (referred to as Global-Inequality). The black line shows the net effect of carbon losses and carbon gains at the global level. 1). have received funding through the project LAnd MAnagement for CLImate Mitigation and Adaptation (LAMACLIMA). Earth Syst. Validation of main land types and GHG emissions is available in the SI (Figs. Progress then ground to a halt in the decade before the pandemic. Sci. Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU). 13, 39053923 (2020). Environ. Summary for Policymakers. 3, 7). https://magpiemodel.github.io/showcase/lamaclimascenarios, https://rse.pik-potsdam.de/doc/magpie/4.4.0/, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00225-9, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00772-w, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-022-01306-8, Description of Additional Supplementary Files, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, Projected landscape-scale repercussions of global action for climate and biodiversity protection. S10 for validation data. Blue vertical lines show the respective value in year 2020. In Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Commun. COVID-19 WAS never going to be good for the poor. Percentage values indicate the share of food waste in the total food supply. In addition, the prevalence of underweight (SDG 2) remains at high levels of above 600 million people globally in the 21st century, mostly in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (Fig. A more open migration policy would reduce global inequality even further. The combined effects of lower population growth, transition to healthy diets, and reduced food waste lower the demand for agricultural commodities (Fig. The model documentation can be found at https://rse.pik-potsdam.de/doc/magpie/4.4.0/. 01LS1905C), NWO (NL), RCN (NO), and BELSPO (Belgium) with co-funding by the European Union under Horizon 2020 (Grant Agreement reference 776608). Food in the Anthropocene: the EATLancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. Thus, limited access to education in a world of global inequality (shared socio-economic pathway 4; SSP4) could result in far higher population growth, especially in Africa, compared to a world of global sustainable development (SSP1)15. Food 112 https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00225-9 (2021). Nature Communications The pursuit of this dual objective led to an iterative co-development process during which many cycles of interactions took place between stakeholders and project scientists, which were grossly structured as follows. At first, however, the disease was not associated with rising inequality. 4, 8). In contrast, global sustainable land-use practices (Global-EnvirProt) have comparatively small effects on AFOLU GHG emissions, resulting in a global emission trajectory that remains positive and relatively close to Global-Inequality until 2100. Shifts to the distribution of income within countries ceased to push inequality higher (indeed, in some recent years within-country shifts served to reduce global inequality on net). The scenario co-development process started with three online meetings of 1.5hours each held in February and March 2021, which focused on introducing to the stakeholders the main research questions tackled by the LAMACLIMA project, the tools used to investigate them, as well as the first results. Photo: Miguel Villalobos/Oxfam Share Share At the same time, land-use intensification is lower compared to Global-Inequality due to the reduced pressure in the land-use system (Figs. By 2100, agricultural water use increases especially in high-income regions but also in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, while Asia shows a reduction. Res. In the period 20102019, global GHG emissions from the land sector (AFOLU) accounted for 1321% of global total net anthropogenic GHG emissions, according to IPCC AR6 Working Group III1. Jgermeyr, J., Pastor, A., Biemans, H. & Gerten, D. Reconciling irrigated food production with environmental flows for sustainable development goals implementation. Earth Environ. Take a typical corporate CEO. a population, b per-capita income, c per-capita calorie intake, d total demand for crops (including food and feed) and livestock products in million-ton dry matter per year, e prevalence of underweight (body mass index <18.5) and f prevalence of obesity (BMI>30). Richer economies tended to suffer larger declines in GDP. Glob. Josephson, A., Kilic, T. & Michler, J. D. Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in low-income countries. 3). Large-scale bioenergy production: how to resolve sustainability trade-offs? 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At the same time, land-use intensification is comparable to the relatively low rates of Global-SustDemand (i.e., lower than in Global-Inequality) in all regions except Asia, where the land-limiting effect of GHG emission pricing results in higher rates of land-use intensification (Figs. 1, Fig. 8). 8). A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda. At the same time, nitrogen fixation (SDG 15) and agricultural water use (SDG 6) are 41% and 29% lower, respectively, compared to Global-Inequality in 2050 at global level. Change 20, 451462 (2010). Lett. If material is not included in the articles Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. Google Scholar. But even as inequality has soared within nations, it has fallen dramatically among nations, as middle-class incomes in China and India have drawn closer to the stagnating incomes of the middle classes in the developed world. Definition of Global Inequality. Details on the scenario setup can be found in Table4. CAS Glob. Lamb, W. F. et al. Measuring agricultural land-use intensity a global analysis using a model-assisted approach. Supplementary Dataset1 includes numerical scenario results and scripts for figure generation. Overcoming global inequality is critical for land-based mitigation in line with the Paris Agreement. 16, 024006 (2021). Bustamante, M. et al. Calorie overconsumption is gradually reduced over time, resulting in a decline of per-capita consumption in all world regions in Global-Sustainability, except for Sub-Saharan Africa where a rapid increase is needed to reduce the prevalence of underweight (Fig. Naidoo, R. & Fisher, B. Reset sustainable development goals for a pandemic world. Geosci. Carbon gains consist of carbon storage in wood products, re/afforestation (Aff CO2-price and Aff NDC), timber plantations, and regrowth of natural vegetation (secondary forests and other natural land). Lett. Aff NDC includes prescribed re/afforestation according to National Determined Contributions (NDCs) towards the objectives of the Paris Agreement. The scenario storylines including parametrization in MAgPIE have been co-developed by all authors in a stakeholder engagement process, which was led by Q.L. Geosci. For the scenario quantification, we use the global multi-regional MAgPIE 4 open-source land-use modeling framework20,21.
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