Planning with emission models reduces the carbon footprint of new reservoirs.

ABSTRACT: Reservoirs collectively contribute 1-2% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, although individual emissions can vary widely. While emission models have considerably advanced our understanding of the lifetime carbon impacts of reservoirs globally and offer means to inform judicious planning, their widespread adoption is hindered by high manual processing requirements, uncertainties, and linkages to geospatial drivers that can be obscure for planners. Meanwhile, simpler Tier 1 methods fail to capture variability across individual reservoirs and can overestimate national emissions by 50% compared to model-based estimates. Here we introduce an automated and transparent framework for large scale reservoir emission assessments and planning with spatially-explicit emission models to a

SUBMITTER: Janus T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12646111 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature