Sustainable pathways towards climate and biodiversity goals in the UK: the importance of managing land-use synergies and trade-offs.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural and environmental policies are being fundamentally reviewed and redesigned in the UK following its exit from the European Union. The UK government and the Devolved Administrations recognise that current land use is not sustainable and that there is now an unprecedented opportunity to define a better land strategy that responds fully to the interconnected challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and sustainable development. This paper presents evidence from three pathways (current trends, sustainable medium ambition, and sustainable high ambition) to mid-century that were co-created with UK policymakers. The pathways were applied to a national integrated food and land-use model (the FABLE calculator) to explore potential synergies and trade-offs between achieving multipl

SUBMITTER: Smith AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9640857 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature