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The SENSES Toolkit is a distinctive set of user-centric visualization tools designed for understanding climate change scenario knowledge. This collection encompasses tools that facilitate learning about the scenario approach and its crucial insights, tools for exploring climate change scenarios, and practical guidelines tailored for three key user groups: policy, finance, and regional decision makers. Rooted in co-production techniques, the toolkit aims to generate relevant and practical climate change scenario knowledge. Its primary goal is to enhance the assessment and application of such knowledge by providing interactive tools that connect users directly to the original scenario data. The toolkit strives to ensure that the tools developed are clear, accessible, trustworthy, and beneficial for stakeholders, minimizing the risk of misinterpretation and promoting transparency in information extraction.
The Role of Land for Food Production and Climate Protection module addresses the significant challenges posed by human activities on the Earth's ice-free land, mainly used for agriculture and forestry to meet the needs of over 7 billion people. Current practices in agriculture, forestry, and land use contribute to climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation. The module explores the causes and consequences of increasing pressure on land and looks into future scenarios based on the IPCC SRCCL. Greenhouse gas reduction efforts and land-based carbon removal are crucial in these scenarios, but there's a finite land resource leading to potential trade-offs between large-scale mitigation and food security. The discussion emphasizes the importance of early action, lifestyle changes, and regulatory policies for a more sustainable path toward the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement, highlighting the need to address challenges while minimizing adverse impacts on food security and biodiversity.