Navigating synergies vs. trade-offs between climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation.

Shermin de Silva, Natalie Jacewicz, Karen Kovaka, Kristy Ferraro, Craig Callender, Dale Jamieson, Aseem Prakash

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Review in npj biodiversity, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Why environmental scientists need ethics training more than ever before.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Shermin de SilvaDepartment of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. srdesilva@ucsd.edu.

Natalie JacewiczSchool of Law, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.

Karen KovakaDepartment of Philosophy, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Kristy FerraroSchool of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

Craig CallenderDepartment of Philosophy, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Dale JamiesonDepartment of Environmental Studies, New York University, New York, NY, USA.

Aseem PrakashDepartment of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synergies between mitigating climate change and conserving biodiversity are often emphasized in public discourse and policy, but there can be trade-offs between these aims. Where trade-offs are evident, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has emerged as a dominant approach to resolving them. We highlight limitations of this approach and propose that creating enviro-ethics committees using principles of collaborative governance would provide a practical mechanism for transparently grappling with trade-offs at various levels.

Identifiers

PMID40461791

DOI10.1038/s44185-025-00092-8

PMCPMC12134159

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