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    Global bioenergy with carbon capture and storage potential is largely constrained by sustainable irrigation

    Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is crucial in many stringent climate scenarios. Although irrigation can enhance BECCS potential, where and to what extent it can enhance global BECCS potential...

    Zhipin Ai, Naota Hanasaki, Vera Heck, Tomoko Hasegawa in Nature Sustainability (2021)

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    Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

    Global agriculture puts heavy pressure on planetary boundaries, posing the challenge to achieve future food security without compromising Earth system resilience. On the basis of process-detailed, spatially ex...

    Dieter Gerten, Vera Heck, Jonas Jägermeyr, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky in Nature Sustainability (2020)

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    Author Correction: Biomass-based negative emissions difficult to reconcile with planetary boundaries

    In the version of this Letter originally published, in Fig. 2, the labels for the yellow and green areas were swapped: the yellow areas should have been labelled ‘Global uncertainty zones’ and the green areas ...

    Vera Heck, Dieter Gerten, Wolfgang Lucht, Alexander Popp in Nature Climate Change (2018)

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    Two-thirds of global cropland area impacted by climate oscillations

    The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) peaked strongly during the boreal winter 2015–2016, leading to food insecurity in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Besides ENSO, the Indian Ocean Dipole (IO...

    Matias Heino, Michael J. Puma, Philip J. Ward, Dieter Gerten in Nature Communications (2018)

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    Biomass-based negative emissions difficult to reconcile with planetary boundaries

    Under the Paris Agreement, 195 nations have committed to holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to strive to limit the increase to 1.5 °C (ref. ...

    Vera Heck, Dieter Gerten, Wolfgang Lucht, Alexander Popp in Nature Climate Change (2018)