Asking ChatGPT: »Compare a regenerative economy with a sustainable economy« A regenerative economy and a sustainable economy share similarities in that they both prioritize the responsible use of natural resources and strive for long-term ecological balance. However, there are some key differences between the two: Objectives: A sustainable economy aims to maintain the status quo and ensure that resources are used at a rate that can be sustained over time, without depleting them. In contrast,
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here is Subimal Ghosh’s presentation on »Land-Atmosphere Feedback in Indian Monsoon«. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only way to stabilize precipitation patterns and prevent floods and droughts – locally, regionally and globally. For
A new paper appeared »Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed precipitation«, indicating how (much) deforestation and precipitations in the tropics are linked: Here we show reduced precipitation over deforested regions across the tropics. Our results arise from a pan-tropical assessment of the impacts of 2003–2017 forest loss on precipitation using satellite, station-based and reanalysis datasets. The effect of deforestation on precipitation increased at larger scales, with satellite datasets showing that forest loss caused robust reductions
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here is Sebastiaan Huismann’s presentation on »Water in the Landscapes, Farm Juchowo, Poland«. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only way to stabilize precipitation patterns and prevent floods and droughts – locally, regionally and
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here is Andrew Millison’s presentation on »Large scale water harvesting successes in India«. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only way to stabilize precipitation patterns and prevent floods and droughts – locally, regionally and
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here is Hermann Lotze-Campen’s presentation on »The role of an integrated land use planning for climate mitigation«. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only way to stabilize precipitation patterns and prevent floods and droughts
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here is Michal Kravčík’s presentation on »Implementation of the principles of the New Water Paradigm for Climate Recovery«. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only way to stabilize precipitation patterns and prevent floods and
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here is Lan Erlandsson’s presentation on »Soil moisture change exceeds planetary safe limits and jeopardize Earth system resilience«. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only way to stabilize precipitation patterns and prevent floods and
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here is David Ellison’s presentation on »On the power of forests (to water the earth) and cool the planet«. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only way to stabilize precipitation patterns and prevent floods
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here is Jan Pokorny’s presentation on »Role of vegetation in partitioning of solar energy, water cycle and local/regional climate«. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only way to stabilize precipitation patterns and prevent floods
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here is Christian Hildmann’s presentation on »From the need to cool the landscape to the location of specific measures using the example of the Elbe-Elster district (Germany)«. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here is the introduction from the organizers into the conference. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only way to stabilize precipitation patterns and prevent floods and droughts – locally, regionally and globally. For this,
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here is Walter Jehne’s presentation on »Practically turning down the greenhouse to cool the Earth with 3 W/ m2 safely, profitably and in time«. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only way to stabilize
In October, we organized the international online Climate Landscapes Conference. Here are the opening words of Dr. Ophelia Nick, State Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture in Germany. It is important to understand that carbon, water and energy cycles on land are closely linked. Restoring atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere is paramount to cooling the planet. This is the only way to stabilize precipitation patterns and prevent floods and
Changes in temperature and precipitation due to rapid deforestation in the Amazon rainforest could have effects as far away as the Tibetan plateau and Antarctica, researcher found “Rapid deforestation of the Amazon rainforest could influence the temperature and precipitation over the Tibetan plateau 15,000 kilometres away. Saini Yang at Beijing Normal University in China and her colleagues analysed global climatological data from 1979 to 2019 to identify correlations in temperature and precipitation between the Amazon rainforest
We had the opportunity at the DLD conference in Munich a few days ago to show the importance of soil and vegetation as an economic basis for all our lives, but also as an importance for healthy food and the climate (or climate cooling) (here the link to the panel recording). The panel exchange was unfortunately only short, but the feedback – especially interesting because a very different audience than usual – was super.
Interesting saying from Hawaii: Hahai no ka ua i ka ulula’au which means: “The rain follows after the forest”
Forests and trees must be recognized as prime regulators within the water, energy and carbon cycles.” – David Ellison and Jan Pokorny, authors of this article, will be speaking on our Climate Landscapes Conference, https://climate-landscapes.org, starting today. Learn more about the potentials of #vegetation, #soils and #watercycles to cool the climate! Register now: https://climate-landscapes.org
In a few hours we start our Climate Landscapes Conference, https://climate-landscapes.org. We’ll bring together scientists and practitioners from around the world under the (sub)title “Working with plants, soils and water to cool the climate and rehydrate Earth’s landscapes“. Come and join us! Rising temperatures and weather extremes such as droughts and floods threaten the Earth and the human population, besides biodiversity loss, land degradation and other major issues. However, it seems we have a solution
Check out the updated agenda for our Climate Landscapes Conference, https://climate-landscapes.org, starting today! Really looking nice, with great presentations and room for exchange and discussion.

  

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