Research teams from the Forest Research and Development Organization Forest Research Institute, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto University, National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Tokyo Agricultural University have achieved biodiversity to achieve the long-term climate target (twice target) aimed at by the Paris Agreement to prevent global warming. I found out that I could suppress the loss of.
According to the Forest Research Institute, the research team extracted 5 vascular plants, 1,605 birds, 4,796 mammals, 1,137 amphibians, and 509 reptiles, for a total of 381 species from more than 8,428 million biological information distributed around the world.Changes in biological distribution in cases where measures are promoted to achieve the target twice based on temperature, precipitation, land use conditions, etc. using statistical methods, and cases where global warming progresses without doing anything. I checked.
Furthermore, we assumed five types of socio-economic conditions such as sustainable social construction and fossil fuel dependence, predicted changes in land use commensurate with them, and compared changes in biodiversity in the 5s by assumption.
As a result, it was found that the cases where the goal was achieved had less habitat for the organisms lost and the loss of biodiversity could be suppressed than the cases where nothing was done. Of the five assumptions, the assumption of sustainable society construction was the most effective in reducing biodiversity loss.The research team believes that strong land regulations will conserve the natural environment.
The Paris Agreement has set a long-term climate target to keep the temperature rise within 2 degrees Celsius compared to before the Industrial Revolution, but achieving the target requires land modification such as new tree planting and crop cultivation for biofuels, which is wild. There was a view that it would rob the habitat of living things and reduce biodiversity.
Paper information:[Nature Communications] Biodiversity can benefit from climate stabilization despite adverse side effects of land-based mitigation
