Land-management options for greenhouse gas removal (GGR) include afforestation or reforestation (AR), wetland restoration, soil carbon sequestration (SCS), biochar, terrestrial enhanced weathering (TEW), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). We assess the opportunities and risks...

The corona pandemic has exposed the interconnected, tightly coupled and vulnerable globalised world. This White Paper sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such crises for global sustainability and resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of the current...

In "Common Wealth", Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller "The End of Poverty" offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and...

Weltweit steht die Wirtschaft vor einer großen Krise, die unsere ökonomischen Gewissheiten auf den Kopf stellen wird. Jeffrey Sachs führt drastisch vor Augen, dass wir ein neues ökonomisches Paradigma brauchen, um auf unserem Planeten überleben zu können. Er zeigt, welche Rahmenbedingungen...

Green growth entails several different kinds of processes: conversion to low-carbon energy, climate resilience, and response to climate shocks. Equity implies a fair sharing of the costs, within countries and between countries. The authors set out to explore some of the ways that equity has been...