TY  - JOUR
A1  - Holthaus, Leonie
A1  - Stockmann, Nils
T1  - Who makes the world?
BT  - Academics and (un)cancelling the future
JF  - New perspectives
N2  - In this essay, we consider the role of academics as change-makers. There is a long line of reflection about academics' sociopolitical role(s) in international relations (IR). Yet, our attempt differs from available considerations in two regards. First, we emphasize that academics are not a homogenous group. While some keep their distance from policymakers, others frequently provide policy advice. Hence, positions and possibilities of influence differ. Second, our argument is not oriented towards the past but the future. That is, we develop our reflections on academics as change-makers by outlining the vision of a 'FutureLab', an innovative, future forum that brings together different world-makers who are united in their attempt to improve 'the world'. Our vision accounts for current, perhaps alarming trends in academia, such as debates about the (in)ability to confront post-truth politics. Still, it is a (critically) optimistic one and can be read as an invitation for experimentation. Finally, we sympathize with voices demanding the democratization of academia and find that further cross-disciplinary dialogues within academia and dialogues between different academics, civil society activists and policymakers may help in finding creditable solutions to problems such as climate change and populism.
KW  - multiplicity
KW  - policy
KW  - scholar-practitioners
KW  - transdisciplinarity
KW  - un-cancelling the future
KW  - world-makers
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X20935246
SN  - 2336-825X
SN  - 2336-8268
VL  - 28
IS  - 3
SP  - 413
EP  - 427
PB  - Sage Publications
CY  - Thousand Oaks, CA
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Griscom, Bronson W.
A1  - Busch, Jonah
A1  - Cook-Patton, Susan C.
A1  - Ellis, Peter W.
A1  - Funk, Jason
A1  - Leavitt, Sara M.
A1  - Lomax, Guy
A1  - Turner, Will R.
A1  - Chapman, Melissa
A1  - Streck, Charlotte
T1  - National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Better land stewardship is needed to achieve the Paris Agreement's temperature goal, particularly in the tropics, where greenhouse gas emissions from the destruction of ecosystems are largest, and where the potential for additional land carbon storage is greatest. As countries enhance their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement, confusion persists about the potential contribution of better land stewardship to meeting the Agreement's goal to hold global warming below 2 degrees C. We assess cost-effective tropical country-level potential of natural climate solutions (NCS)-protection, improved management and restoration of ecosystems-to deliver climate mitigation linked with sustainable development goals (SDGs). We identify groups of countries with distinctive NCS portfolios, and we explore factors (governance, financial capacity) influencing the feasibility of unlocking national NCS potential. Cost-effective tropical NCS offers globally significant climate mitigation in the coming decades (6.56 Pg CO(2)e yr(-1) at less than 100 US$ per Mg CO(2)e). In half of the tropical countries, cost-effective NCS could mitigate over half of national emissions. In more than a quarter of tropical countries, cost-effective NCS potential is greater than national emissions. We identify countries where, with international financing and political will, NCS can cost-effectively deliver the majority of enhanced NDCs while transforming national economies and contributing to SDGs. This article is part of the theme issue 'Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions'.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 195 
KW  - natural climate solutions
KW  - climate mitigation
KW  - protection
KW  - land management
KW  - restoration
KW  - Paris Agreement
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-513692
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 1794
ER  -