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What’s the best way to tackle climate change? An ‘evidence bank’ could help scientists find answers

Synthesizing research on which policies are most effective is a key priority in climate science, advocates say.
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  1. Helen Pearson

Researchers are developing a bold plan to tackle one of the most urgent challenges in climate science: working out the most effective ways to tackle climate change. If it comes to pass, researchers and artificial intelligence (AI) would build a bank of evidence syntheses — reviews of a body of science — to reveal how well policies work to cut emissions or help societies adapt to global warming.

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Nature 630, 540-541 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01683-4

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