Kim Nicholas
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    • Flying Less >
      • The Takeoff of Staying on the Ground
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      • Ingen ny tid för avgång
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    • Radically Reducing Lund's Emissions
    • Climate Solutions >
      • Responding to Climate Change
      • Fyra klimatsmarta livsstilsval
      • Climate Science 101
      • Climate Policy >
        • IPCC Report on 1.5°
        • Kims Klimatval
        • COP21 (Paris Agreement)
      • Farmer adaptation
      • Harnessing biodiversity
    • Climate Education
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      • Global land use
      • European farming systems
      • Swedish land use
      • Ecosystem Services & OPERAs
      • REDD+
      • Land Acquisitions
    • Sustainable Food >
      • Urban Food Forestry
      • Local food in Iceland
      • One Great Meal
      • Dietary choices & climate change
      • Crop yields & climate
    • Wine, Climate, & Sustainability >
      • Wine & Climate: Impacts & Solutions
      • Wine Diversity for Climate Adaptation
      • Wine yields & quality under climate change
      • Farmer climate adaptation
      • Vineyard ecosystems & landscapes
      • European Wine Case Studies (OPERAs)
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      • We Can Fix It World Cafe 2017
      • We Can Fix It World Cafe 2016
      • We Can Fix It World Cafe 2015
      • We Can Fix It World Cafe 2014
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      • R tutorial 1: Basic calculations and graphs
      • R tutorial 2: Data Visualization
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Here you'll find my writing for magazines and other platforms. Please also see my blog (link under Writing). 

Behavior change to meet long-term climate targets

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Seth Wynes and I were commissioned by World Resources Institute to write a short perspective on reducing demand for high-emitting behaviors like flying to meet long-term climate targets. ​

Flying Less is Critical to a Safe Climate Future 

Short overview to inform the design of the Green New Deal. 

Making Climate Action Personal

Feature article in the Association for Women in Science on individual climate leadership. 
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My reflections in Scientific American on individual climate action- from our study and in my own life
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Limiting Global Warming Will be Hard, but Hardly Impossible

Op-ed after the Paris Agreement on what's next for science
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Reckoning With Our Common Future Under Climate Change

My summary of the major scientific conference in the run-up to the Paris Agreement, based in part on daily news updates I wrote together with Johannes Mengel. 
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Saving Seagrasses

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The underwater secret to Mallorca's famous beaches, and how the OPERAs project is helping protect them.

Preserving Wines as Climate Changes

Article in Scientific American summarizing a decade of my research in the field.
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My climate reading list

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I’ll never read my favorite book on climate change- find out why. 

How Wine Connects Climate, Land & People

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Blog post for Weather Underground/The Weather Channel. 

Scientists & Climate Action 

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My interview for Road to Paris on divestment & the role of scientists in climate change action

Early-Career Scientists in Policy

Post for the Science Advice to Governments conference
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Understanding Farmer Decisionmaking

Farmers feed the world. How do they think about and cope with a changing world? 
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Aligning our plates & research

Celebrating a vegetarian conference, and urging sustainability scientists to walk the talk
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Storytelling for Science

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Guest post for COMPASS on personal stories for science. ​

Live from the Paris Agreement

Scientists assess the 1.5° target, negative emissions, and the path to zero the day before the final Paris Agreement.
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Climate extremes & wheat and maize yields

Summary of our research paper on what a more extreme climate means for feeding the world. 
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Photo: Rae Allen on Flickr

Climate Science for the Wine Industry

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Photo: Mostphotos via Lund University
What the wine industry needs to know about climate science, written with Prof. Chris Field in Practical Winery and Vineyard 2008.

Contact information
Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies 


Visiting address

Josephson Room 117 
Biskopsgatan 5
Lund, Sweden

mailing address

LUCSUS, P.O. Box 170
SE-221 00
Lund, Sweden

virtual addresses 

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4756-7851