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Acknowledgements

T.H., S.F., K.T. and J.T. acknowledge support from the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund 2-2002 of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency of Japan, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI (grant no. 19K24387) and the Sumitomo Foundation. B.L.B. received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement nos. 776479 (COACCH) and 821010 (CASCADES)).

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  1. Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan

    Tomoko Hasegawa

  2. International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

    Tomoko Hasegawa, Petr Havlík & Hugo Valin

  3. Center for Social and Environmental Systems Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan

    Tomoko Hasegawa, Shinichiro Fujimori, Kiyoshi Takahashi & Jun’ya Takakura

  4. Department of Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Japan

    Shinichiro Fujimori

  5. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany

    Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Hermann Lotze-Campen & Christoph Müller

  6. PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Jonathan C. Doelman, Elke Stehfest & Willem-Jan van Zeist

  7. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Seville, Spain

    Thomas Fellmann & Ignacio Pérez Domínguez

  8. Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, USA

    Page Kyle

  9. Wageningen Economic Research, Wageningen University and Research, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Jason F. L. Koopman, Andrzej Tabeau & Hans van Meijl

  10. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Hermann Lotze-Campen

  11. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC, DC, USA

    Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Timothy B. Sulser & Keith Wiebe

  12. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Daniel Mason-D’Croz

  13. E-Konzal Co. Ltd, Osaka, Japan

    Yuki Ochi

  14. Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Hans van Meijl

  15. Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Peter Witzke

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T.H. led the writing of this Matters Arising, and all authors contributed to the development and finalization of the text.

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Hasegawa, T., Fujimori, S., Havlík, P. et al. Reply to: An appeal to cost undermines food security risks of delayed mitigation. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 420–421 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0767-3

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