Synergies and trade-offs for reaching global biodiversity and climate commitments
Zhongde Huang · Zhou Fang · Alexandre Antonelli · Daniele Silvestro · Jie Wang · Yunhong Tan · Jianwu Li · Shishun Zhou · Maroof Ali · Xue Lu · Ruibo Wang · Shi Xue · Qin Zhou · Changgao Cheng · Qiying Wang · Haoran Chen · Yang Bai
期刊Nature Communications / Nat Commun
类型Article
发表2026-08-05 (online)
卷期页17(1): 10388
收录2026-10-09
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关键词protected area expansionKunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Frameworkspecies diversitycarbon storageecological connectivitydistributional equityParis Agreementtaxonomic groupslow-income countries
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The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework strives to expand high-quality protected areas globally, yet faces economic constraints, climate change and human pressures. This requires integrating biological and socio-economic complexity while ensuring equity. We explore multi-target '30 by 30' and '50 by 50' (the 'Half Earth') protected area expansion strategies that combine species diversity with carbon storage, quantifying their effectiveness (the represented proportion of global species richness and carbon stocks), connectivity and cost-efficiency. Under near-current and future climates, single-criterion strategies - based on five taxonomic groups (plants, amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles) or carbon alone - achieve effectiveness of 42.3 ± 4.10% and 68.8 ± 8.39% for both targets, whereas multi-goal strategies reach 44.1 ± 0.42% and 67.0 ± 0.89%. Multi-goal strategies reduce connectivity by 2.35% but slightly improve cost-efficiency (2.06% lower cost) and individual-metric effectiveness (mean rise 0.76%). Moving from single- to multi-target strategies increases conserved-area coverage in high-latitude, higher-income countries (by 3.14% and 5.59%), with a corresponding decline in low-income countries (7.31% and 12.6%); single-goal strategies targeting threatened species allocate more coverage to the Global South. By rebalancing North-South responsibilities and easing burdens on low-income nations needing financial support or compensation mechanisms, these findings improve conservation affordability and provide equity insights for implementing Global Biodiversity Framework and Paris Agreement.

@article{huang2026,
author = {Zhongde Huang and Zhou Fang and Alexandre Antonelli and Daniele Silvestro and Jie Wang and Yunhong Tan and Jianwu Li and Shishun Zhou and Maroof Ali and Xue Lu and Ruibo Wang and Shi Xue and Qin Zhou and Changgao Cheng and Qiying Wang and Haoran Chen and Yang Bai},
title = {Synergies and trade-offs for reaching global biodiversity and climate commitments},
journal = {Nature Communications},
year = {2026},
volume = {17},
number = {1},
pages = {10388},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-026-76324-7},
publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
}· END ·