Climate mitigation potential of natural climate solutions and clean energy on The Nature Conservancy properties in California, USA.

ABSTRACT: Natural climate solutions (NCS) and transitioning to clean energy can reduce greenhouse gases and contribute to mitigating climate change. Private landowners with large holdings, such as conservation organizations like The Nature Conservancy, have set ambitious goals to reduce net emissions and increase sequestration on their lands by implementing NCS. We assessed the potential carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e) reduction from feasible NCS, specifically implementing new restoration and agricultural management activities, and transitions to clean energy on The Nature Conservancy, California chapter's fee-owned and conservation easement properties. We compared the total CO2e reduction from potential new NCS activities to the impact from ongoing NCS activities, the chapter's 2030 goal, and the

SUBMITTER: Wilson KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11493287 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature