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New scenarios needed to address climate crisis, say scientists

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Scientists from the Earth Commission are advocating for a shift in climate and biodiversity modeling, arguing that current scenarios are too narrow and rely on existing economic systems. They propose 'integrated transformative scenarios' that incorporate equity goals and diverse perspectives, particularly from the Global South and Indigenous communities.

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“In a paper published in One Earth, researchers warn that many widely used global scenarios are built on the same assumptions that helped create the world's current problems.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general definitions of 'research' and 'Earth' from Wikipedia and dictionaries, which do not confirm the specific contents of a paper in One Earth. Only the claim itself (and a snippet in claim 6's evidence) mentions this, but there is no independent corroboration of the paper's specific argument.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cell Press is an all-science publisher of over 50 scientific journals across the life, physical, earth, and health sciences, both independently and in partnership with scientific societies. Cell Press…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is made possible by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid su…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Earth-One (also Earth-1) is a name given to two fictional universes (the Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis versions of the same universe) that have appeared in American comic book stories published by DC Com…
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“Pereira is one of 23 commissioners on the Earth Commission, four of whom are from Africa.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers around 20% of Earth's la…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gysbert Reitz Hofmeyr (12 February 1871 – 12 March 1942) was a South African civil servant and the first Administrator of South West Africa (now Namibia) under the League of Nations Mandate. As secret…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Planet Earth is a television and film documentary franchise produced and broadcast by the BBC. The franchise began in 2006 following the success of The Blue Planet.
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“Convened by Future Earth, the world's largest network of sustainability researchers, the Commission brings together an international team of natural and social scientists”
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Three independent web search results (Earth Commission official site, Altiorem, and Future Earth) all confirm that the Earth Commission was convened by Future Earth, which is described as the world's largest network of sustainability scientists/researchers.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Planet Earth: The Future is a 2006 BBC documentary series on the environment and conservation, produced by the BBC Natural History Unit as a companion to the multi-award-winning nature documentary Pla…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Planet Earth is a 2006 nature documentary television miniseries produced as a co-production between the BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Worldwide, Discovery Channel and NHK, in association with CBC. Fiv…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The rare-earth elements (REE), also called rare-earth metals, or rare earths, are a set of 17 nearly indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals. The 15 lanthanides (or lanthanoids), a…
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“The most widely used models for decision-making include Integrated Assessment Models”
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Wikipedia explicitly defines Integrated Assessment Modelling (IAM) as a scientific modelling framework used to link society, economy, biosphere, and atmosphere, and provides the DICE model as a specific example of such a model used for climate-economy assessment.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy model, referred to as the DICE model or Dice model, is a neoclassical integrated assessment model developed by 2018 Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus that integrat…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Integrated assessment modelling (IAM) or integrated modelling (IM)  is a term used for a type of scientific modelling that tries to link main features of society and economy with the biosphere and atm…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The social cost of carbon (SCC) is an estimate, typically expressed in dollars, of the economic damages associated with emitting one additional ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. By translatin…
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“This is a big gap in the African context because we are the only region without an IAM”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GoldSim is dynamic, probabilistic simulation software developed by GoldSim Technology Group. This general-purpose simulator is a hybrid of several simulation approaches, combining an extension of sys…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Integrated assessment modelling (IAM) or integrated modelling (IM)  is a term used for a type of scientific modelling that tries to link main features of society and economy with the biosphere and atm…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Risk assessment is a process for identifying hazards, potential (future) events which may negatively impact on individuals, assets, and/or the environment because of those hazards, their likelihood an…
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“The outputs from scenarios and models shape major global assessments like the IPCC and IPBES and negotiations in the UNFCCC and CBD”
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Web search results confirm that IPCC assessment reports are key inputs for international negotiations and that IPBES provides global assessments on biodiversity and ecosystem services, which shape policy and negotiations.
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web search NEUTRAL — The assessment reports are a key input into the international negotiations to tackle climate change. Created by the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) and the World Meteorological O…
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web search NEUTRAL — Prompted by the establishment of IPBES (Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) in 2012 by more than 100 governments, it has attracted increasing attention in…
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web search NEUTRAL — The IPBES global assessment presents the current status and trends in biodiversity, ecosystem services and drivers of change.
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“Publication details Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis with integrated transformative scenarios, One Earth (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2026.101710.”
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web search NEUTRAL — in an article published in 2022 in the journal Energy Policy.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142152…
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web search NEUTRAL — Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis with integrated transformative scenarios, One Earth (2026).
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-scenarios-climate-crisis-scien…
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web search NEUTRAL — The clip in the tweet above is taken from a discussion with Michael Farris and Dave Collum uploaded on to Rumble on 10 May 2026. You can watch the full video HERE. In the clip, Dowd said: “Well, let’s…
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“Professor Laura Pereira from the Global Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and the Stockholm Resilience Center”
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The evidence provided consists of general definitions of the word 'Professor' and a directory for the University of New Mexico, which does not confirm Professor Laura Pereira's specific affiliations.
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web search NEUTRAL — Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) [1] is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, professor derives from Lati…
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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · The meaning of PROFESSOR is one that professes, avows, or declares. How to use professor in a sentence.
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web search NEUTRAL — notice: You are accessing the public directory. Login for additional information.
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“Albert Norström, the Commission's science director”
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