Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges

N Seddon, A Chausson, P Berry… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
There is growing awareness that 'nature-based solutions'(NbS) can help to protect us from
climate change impacts while slowing further warming, supporting biodiversity and securing …

The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change

ETA Mitchard - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Tropical forests make an approximately neutral contribution to the global carbon cycle, with
intact and recovering forests taking in as much carbon as is released through deforestation …

Agriculture, forestry and other land uses (chapter 7)

GJ Nabuurs, R Mrabet, A Abu Hatab, M Bustamante… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector encompasses managed
ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while delivering food, wood and …

Strengthening and implementing the global response

H De Coninck, A Revi, M Babiker, P Bertoldi… - Global warming of 1.5 …, 2018 - research.rug.nl
The global response to warming of 1.5 oC comprises transitions in land and ecosystem,
energy, urban and infrastructure, and industrial systems. The feasibility of mitigation and …

Natural regeneration as a tool for large‐scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

RL Chazdon, MR Guariguata - Biotropica, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

Age, extent and carbon storage of the central Congo Basin peatland complex

GC Dargie, SL Lewis, IT Lawson, ETA Mitchard… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Peatlands are carbon-rich ecosystems that cover just three per cent of Earth's land surface,
but store one-third of soil carbon. Peat soils are formed by the build-up of partially …

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

SL Lewis, DP Edwards, D Galbraith - Science, 2015 - science.org
Tropical forests house over half of Earth's biodiversity and are an important influence on the
climate system. These forests are experiencing escalating human influence, altering their …

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

L Poorter, F Bongers, TM Aide, AM Almeyda Zambrano… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Land-use change occurs nowhere more rapidly than in the tropics, where the imbalance
between deforestation and forest regrowth has large consequences for the global carbon …

Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed

A Arneth, S Sitch, J Pongratz, BD Stocker, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The terrestrial biosphere absorbs about 20% of fossil-fuel CO2 emissions. The overall
magnitude of this sink is constrained by the difference between emissions, the rate of …

Potential for low-cost carbon dioxide removal through tropical reforestation

J Busch, J Engelmann, SC Cook-Patton… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Achieving the 1.5–2.0° C temperature targets of the Paris climate agreement
requires not only reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) but also increasing …