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

N Seddon, A Smith, P Smith, I Key… - Global change …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Nature‐based solutions (NbS)—solutions to societal challenges that involve
working with nature—have recently gained popularity as an integrated approach that can …

Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century

SL Maxwell, V Cazalis, N Dudley, M Hoffmann… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Humanity will soon define a new era for nature—one that seeks to transform decades of
underwhelming responses to the global biodiversity crisis. Area-based conservation efforts …

Biodiversity loss reduces global terrestrial carbon storage

SR Weiskopf, F Isbell, MI Arce-Plata… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Natural ecosystems store large amounts of carbon globally, as organisms absorb carbon
from the atmosphere to build large, long-lasting, or slow-decaying structures such as tree …

Dietary change in high-income nations alone can lead to substantial double climate dividend

Z Sun, L Scherer, A Tukker, SA Spawn-Lee… - Nature Food, 2022‏ - nature.com
A dietary shift from animal-based foods to plant-based foods in high-income nations could
reduce greenhouse gas emissions from direct agricultural production and increase carbon …

The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation

L Duncanson, M Liang, V Leitold, J Armston… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Forests play a critical role in stabilizing Earth's climate. Establishing protected areas (PAs)
represents one approach to forest conservation, but PAs were rarely created to mitigate …

Expert review of the science underlying nature-based climate solutions

B Buma, DR Gordon, KM Kleisner, A Bartuska… - Nature Climate …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Viable nature-based climate solutions (NbCS) are needed to achieve climate goals
expressed in international agreements like the Paris Accord. Many NbCS pathways have …

Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions

Y Malhi, J Franklin, N Seddon… - … of the Royal …, 2020‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The rapid anthropogenic climate change that is being experienced in the early twenty-first
century is intimately entwined with the health and functioning of the biosphere. Climate …

A “Global Safety Net” to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth's climate

E Dinerstein, AR Joshi, C Vynne, ATL Lee… - Science …, 2020‏ - science.org
Global strategies to halt the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are often
formulated separately, even though they are interdependent and risk failure if pursued in …

Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

M Jung, A Arnell, X De Lamo… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
To meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, the international
community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and …

[HTML][HTML] The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

M Santoro, O Cartus, N Carvalhais… - Earth System …, 2021‏ - essd.copernicus.org
The terrestrial forest carbon pool is poorly quantified, in particular in regions with low forest
inventory capacity. By combining multiple satellite observations of synthetic aperture radar …