Natural climate solutions provide robust carbon mitigation capacity under future climate change scenarios.

ABSTRACT: Natural climate solutions (NCS) are recognized as an important tool for governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove atmospheric carbon dioxide. Using California as a globally relevant reference, we evaluate the magnitude of biological climate mitigation potential from NCS starting in 2020 under four climate change scenarios. By mid-century NCS implementation leads to a large increase in net carbon stored, flipping the state from a net source to a net sink in two scenarios. Forest and conservation land management strategies make up 85% of all NCS emissions reductions by 2050, with agricultural strategies accounting for the remaining 15%. The most severe climate change impacts on ecosystem carbon materialize in the latter half of the century with three scenarios resulting in Ca

SUBMITTER: Marvin DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10624659 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature