Nature – Melnikova et al. (2023): Relative benefits of allocating land to bioenergy crops and forests vary by region

Irina Melnikova, Philippe Ciais, Katsumasa Tanaka, Nicolas Vuichard, Olivier Boucher IN: Communications Earth & Environment 4, 230, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00866-7

Here the authors compare bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and afforestation and reforestation in terms of their carbon removal potentials and impacts on carbon cycle and surface climate under an overshoot pathway using Earth System Model simulations. The decision to allocate land to bioenergy crops or forests should account for their respective carbon removal potentials, modulated by carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks, and the effects on climate.

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