Land-use change, no-net-loss policies, and effects on carbon dioxide removals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere (CDR) is a critical component of strategies for restricting global warming to 1.5°C and is expected to come largely from the sequestration of carbon in vegetation. Because CDR rates have been declining in the United States, in part due to land use changes, policy proposals are focused on altering land uses, through afforestation, avoided deforestation, and no-net-loss strategies. Estimating policy effects requires a careful assessment of how land uses interact with forest conditions to determine future CDR.

Results

We evaluate how alternative specifications of land use-forest condition interactions in the United States affect projections of CDR using a model that mirrors land sector net emission inventories generated by t

SUBMITTER: Wear DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11619289 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature