Unequal climate impacts on global values of natural capital.

ABSTRACT: Ecosystems generate a wide range of benefits for humans, including some market goods as well as other benefits that are not directly reflected in market activity¹. Climate change will alter the distribution of ecosystems around the world and change the flow of these benefits^2,3. However, the specific implications of ecosystem changes for human welfare remain unclear, as they depend on the nature of these changes, the value of the affected benefits and the extent to which communities rely on natural systems for their well-being⁴. Here we estimate country-level changes in economic production and the value of non-market ecosystem benefits resulting from climate-change-induced shifts in terrestrial vegetation cover, as projected by dynamic global vegetation mod

SUBMITTER: Bastien-Olvera BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10808060 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature