Nature – Dooley et al. (2024): Over-reliance on land for carbon dioxide removal in net-zero climate pledges
Kate Dooley, Kirstine Lund Christiansen, Jens Friis Lund, Wim Carton, Alister Self IN: Nature Communications, 15, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53466-0
Here, the authors show that countries’ climate pledges require approximately 1 (0.9–1.1) billion ha of land for removals. For over 40% of this area, the pledges envisage the conversion of existing land uses to forests, while the remaining area restores existing ecosystems and land uses. They analyse how this demand for land is distributed geographically and over time.