Nature – Caldera & Breyer (2023): Afforesting arid land with renewable electricity and desalination to mitigate climate change
Upeksha Caldera & Christian Breyer IN: Nat Sustain (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01056-7
In this research, existing concepts of low-cost renewable electricity (RE) and seawater desalination are built upon to identify the global CO2 sequestration potential if RE-powered desalination plants were used to irrigate forests on arid land over the period 2030–2100. The results suggest a key role for afforestation projects irrigated with RE-based desalination within the climate change mitigation portfolio.