Trade-offs between mitigation costs and temperature change

Adaptation and mitigation: trade-offs in substance and methods

Adaptation to climate change and mitigation of climate change are policy substitutes, as both reduce the impacts of climate change. Adaptation and mitigation should therefore be analysed together, as they indeed are, albeit in a rudimentary way, in cost-benefit analyses of emission abatement. However, adaptation and mitigation are done by different people operating at different spatial and temp...

Agricultural productivity and greenhouse gas emissions: trade-offs or synergies between mitigation and food security?

In this letter, we investigate the effects of crop yield and livestock feed efficiency scenarios on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture and land use change in developing countries. We analyze mitigation associated with different productivity pathways using the global partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM. Our results confirm that yield increase could mitigate some agriculture-related em...

Policy trade-offs between climate mitigation and clean cook-stove access in South Asia

Diatom Cell Size, Coloniality and Motility: Trade-Offs between Temperature, Salinity and Nutrient Supply with Climate Change

Reduction in body size has been proposed as a universal response of organisms, both to warming and to decreased salinity. However, it is still controversial if size reduction is caused by temperature or salinity on their own, or if other factors interfere as well. We used natural benthic diatom communities to explore how "body size" (cells and colonies) and motility change along temperature (2-...

Trade-offs between speed and endurance

expanding discipline of evolutionary physiology is a more detailed understanding of the role of physiological constraints in evolution (Garland and Carter, 1994; Feder et al., 2000). Physiological constraints can arise when an organism has to perform multiple tasks that place conflicting demands on its physiological design: an increase in the performance of one task may lead to a decrease in th...