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Mitigating climate change and ozone pollution will improve Chinese food security. / Li, Shouxiu; Gao, Yang; Zhang, Junxi et al.
In: One Earth, Vol. 8, No. 2, 101166, 21.02.2025.

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Li, S, Gao, Y, Zhang, J, Hong, C, Zhang, S, Chen, D, Wild, O, Feng, Z, Xu, Y, Guo, X, Kou, W, Yan, F, Ma, M, Yao, X, Gao, H & Davis, SJ 2025, 'Mitigating climate change and ozone pollution will improve Chinese food security', One Earth, vol. 8, no. 2, 101166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.12.002

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Li, S., Gao, Y., Zhang, J., Hong, C., Zhang, S., Chen, D., Wild, O., Feng, Z., Xu, Y., Guo, X., Kou, W., Yan, F., Ma, M., Yao, X., Gao, H., & Davis, S. J. (2025). Mitigating climate change and ozone pollution will improve Chinese food security. One Earth, 8(2), Article 101166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.12.002

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Li S, Gao Y, Zhang J, Hong C, Zhang S, Chen D et al. Mitigating climate change and ozone pollution will improve Chinese food security. One Earth. 2025 Feb 21;8(2):101166. Epub 2024 Dec 27. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.12.002

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Li, Shouxiu ; Gao, Yang ; Zhang, Junxi et al. / Mitigating climate change and ozone pollution will improve Chinese food security. In: One Earth. 2025 ; Vol. 8, No. 2.

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title = "Mitigating climate change and ozone pollution will improve Chinese food security",
abstract = "Competition for land, partly driven by the trade-off between ensuring sufficient food production and expanding forest carbon sinks, intensifies the challenge of addressing climate change. This issue is further exacerbated by damage to plant stomata from ground-level ozone, reducing crop yields. Stomatal opening is regulated by meteorological processes that may change significantly under warming climate, but this effect has been largely overlooked in prior studies of crop ozone damage. Here, we show historical crop losses across China are 39 Tg annually, valued at roughly $15 billion. In a scenario where carbon emissions reach net zero in 2060, projected crop production losses could decline most, enough to provide an additional 87,000 kcal per capita in China, or enabling a net absorption of 22 million tons of CO2 annually through reverting surplus cropland to natural ecosystems. Our findings provide policy-relevant information to support continued efforts toward strict pollution control and climate mitigation.",
keywords = "crop production, Ozone, stomata, anthropogenic emissions, climate change",
author = "Shouxiu Li and Yang Gao and Junxi Zhang and Chaopeng Hong and Shaoqing Zhang and Deliang Chen and Oliver Wild and Zhaozhong Feng and Yansen Xu and Xiuwen Guo and Wenbin Kou and Feifan Yan and Mingchen Ma and Xiaohong Yao and Huiwang Gao and Davis, {Steven J.}",
year = "2025",
month = feb,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1016/j.oneear.2024.12.002",
language = "English",
volume = "8",
journal = "One Earth",
issn = "2590-3322",
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TY - JOUR

T1 - Mitigating climate change and ozone pollution will improve Chinese food security

AU - Li, Shouxiu

AU - Gao, Yang

AU - Zhang, Junxi

AU - Hong, Chaopeng

AU - Zhang, Shaoqing

AU - Chen, Deliang

AU - Wild, Oliver

AU - Feng, Zhaozhong

AU - Xu, Yansen

AU - Guo, Xiuwen

AU - Kou, Wenbin

AU - Yan, Feifan

AU - Ma, Mingchen

AU - Yao, Xiaohong

AU - Gao, Huiwang

AU - Davis, Steven J.

PY - 2025/2/21

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N2 - Competition for land, partly driven by the trade-off between ensuring sufficient food production and expanding forest carbon sinks, intensifies the challenge of addressing climate change. This issue is further exacerbated by damage to plant stomata from ground-level ozone, reducing crop yields. Stomatal opening is regulated by meteorological processes that may change significantly under warming climate, but this effect has been largely overlooked in prior studies of crop ozone damage. Here, we show historical crop losses across China are 39 Tg annually, valued at roughly $15 billion. In a scenario where carbon emissions reach net zero in 2060, projected crop production losses could decline most, enough to provide an additional 87,000 kcal per capita in China, or enabling a net absorption of 22 million tons of CO2 annually through reverting surplus cropland to natural ecosystems. Our findings provide policy-relevant information to support continued efforts toward strict pollution control and climate mitigation.

AB - Competition for land, partly driven by the trade-off between ensuring sufficient food production and expanding forest carbon sinks, intensifies the challenge of addressing climate change. This issue is further exacerbated by damage to plant stomata from ground-level ozone, reducing crop yields. Stomatal opening is regulated by meteorological processes that may change significantly under warming climate, but this effect has been largely overlooked in prior studies of crop ozone damage. Here, we show historical crop losses across China are 39 Tg annually, valued at roughly $15 billion. In a scenario where carbon emissions reach net zero in 2060, projected crop production losses could decline most, enough to provide an additional 87,000 kcal per capita in China, or enabling a net absorption of 22 million tons of CO2 annually through reverting surplus cropland to natural ecosystems. Our findings provide policy-relevant information to support continued efforts toward strict pollution control and climate mitigation.

KW - crop production

KW - Ozone

KW - stomata

KW - anthropogenic emissions

KW - climate change

U2 - 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.12.002

DO - 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.12.002

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JO - One Earth

JF - One Earth

SN - 2590-3322

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