Pete Smith

Research interests

Publications

• Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change

  Global Change Biology · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15513

• Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods

  Nature Food · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00358-x

• Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system

  Nature Food · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0074-1

• The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions

  Nature Sustainability · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0491-z

• The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1681-6

• Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis

  Environmental Research Letters · 2018 · 10.1088/1748-9326/aabf9b

• Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification

  Nature Sustainability · 2018 · 10.1038/s41893-018-0114-0

• Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects

  Environmental Research Letters · 2018 · 10.1088/1748-9326/aabf9f

• Natural climate solutions

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1710465114

• Climate-smart soils

  Nature · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17174

• Soil carbon sequestration and biochar as negative emission technologies

  Global Change Biology · 2016 · 10.1111/gcb.13178

• The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

  SOIL · 2016 · 10.5194/soil-2-111-2016

• Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector

  Nature Climate Change · 2016 · 10.1038/nclimate2925

• The Impacts of Dietary Change on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Land Use, Water Use, and Health: A Systematic Review

  PLoS ONE · 2016 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0165797

• Global change pressures on soils from land use and management

  Global Change Biology · 2015 · 10.1111/gcb.13068

• Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

  Global Change Biology · 2015 · 10.1111/gcb.12916

• Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

  Nature Climate Change · 2015 · 10.1038/nclimate2870

• Betting on negative emissions

  Nature Climate Change · 2014 · 10.1038/nclimate2392

• Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature

  PLoS ONE · 2013 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0081648

• Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies

  Science · 2013 · 10.1126/science.1234485

• Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

  Nature · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12350

• Global agriculture and nitrous oxide emissions

  Nature Climate Change · 2012 · 10.1038/nclimate1458

• Microorganisms and climate change: terrestrial feedbacks and mitigation options

  Nature Reviews Microbiology · 2010 · 10.1038/nrmicro2439

• Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2184

• Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe

  Science · 2005 · 10.1126/science.1115233

• Carbon sequestration in the agricultural soils of Europe

  Geoderma · 2004 · 10.1016/j.geoderma.2004.01.021

• A comparison of the performance of nine soil organic matter models using datasets from seven long-term experiments

  Geoderma · 1997 · 10.1016/s0016-7061(97)00087-6

Current projects

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