Models typically used to analyse climate–economy interactions have paradoxically ignored much of nature’s value. A new study explicitly addresses this issue and reveals feedback loops between nature and the climate system that make climate change more costly.
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Agarwala, M., Coyle, D. Natural capital in climate models. Nat Sustain 4, 81–82 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00618-x
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