Nature – Tölgyesi et al. (2025): Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration
Csaba Tölgyesi, Nándor Csikós, Vicky M. Temperton, Elise Buisson, Fernando A. O. Silveira, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, Péter Török, Zoltán Bátori & Ákos Bede-Fazekas, IN: Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01742-z
Ecosystem restoration is increasingly recognized as a means of climate change mitigation. Recent global-scale studies have suggested that ecosystem restoration could offset a substantial fraction of human carbon emissions since the Industrial Revolution. However, global carbon sequestration potential remains uncertain due to the tree-centric view of some models and difficulties in modelling restoration across different ecosystem types. Here the authors applied a model-based prediction workflow to estimate the carbon capture potential of restoring forest, shrubland, grassland and wetland ecosystems until 2100.