Nature – Gvein et al. (2023): Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland

Maren H. Gvein, Xiangping Hu, Jan S. Næss, Marcos D. B. Watanabe, Otávio Cavalett, Maxime Malbranque, Georg Kindermann, Francesco Cherubini IN: Commun Earth Environ 4, 39 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00696-7

The authors compare alternative land-based mitigation options by integrating historical and future (up to 2050) abandoned cropland with site-specific biomass yields and life-cycle emissions. Considering natural revegetation in biodiversity priority areas and different measures in the remaining land can achieve a mitigation potential of 0.8–4.0 GtCO₂-equivalents yr⁻¹ (2–11% of 2021 global CO₂ emissions).

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