Kategorie: Peer-reviewed Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

Prütz et al. (2026): Biodiversity implications of land-intensive carbon dioxide removal

Ruben Prütz, Joeri Rogelj, Gaurav Ganti, Jeff Price, Rachel Warren, Nicole Forstenhäusler, Yazhen Wu, Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Michael Wögerer, Tamás Krisztin, Petr Havlík, Florian Kraxner, Stefan Frank, Tomoko Hasegawa, Jonathan C. Doelman, Vassilis Daioglou, Florian Humpenöder, Alexander Popp and Sabine Fuss, IN: Nature Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02557-5

Pathways consistent with global climate objectives typically deploy billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from land-intensive methods such as forestation and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. Such large-scale deployment of land-intensive CDR may have negative consequences for biodiversity. Here the authors assess scenarios across five integrated assessment models and show that scenarios consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C allocate up to 13% of global areas of high biodiversity importance for land-intensive CDR.

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Ķēniņa et al. (2026): Disturbance event impact on aboveground carbon storage and vulnerability of large trees in old-growth coniferous forest stands in Latvia

Laura Ķēniņa, Didzis Elferts, Ieva Jaunslaviete and Āris Jansons, IN: Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-37378-1

Large, old trees store a considerable part of the total carbon in old-growth forests; however, their influence on long-term climate change mitigation capacity remains unclear. Damage caused by wind and insect outbreaks can rapidly kill trees, and these natural events are expected to increase with climate change, thereby reducing the long-term carbon storage capacity of old-growth stands. The aim was to estimate the importance of large, old trees in carbon storage at the stand level and the potential risks for the carbon stock if they die.

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Cheng et al. (2026): Comparative Study on the Enhancing Effects of CaSO₄ and CaCl₂ Supplementation on Red Mud Carbonation

Yu Cheng, Shiying Yan, Lu Jin, Xu Wang, Ming Jia, Ping An and Binghui Sun, IN: Frontiers in Climate, https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2026.1732612

Red mud (RM), a strongly alkaline solid waste generated during alumina production, can undergo carbonation with CO₂ for mineral sequestration. To investigate the promoting effect of external calcium sources on RM carbonation, desulfurization gypsum (CaSO₄) and calcium chloride (CaCl₂) were selected as supplements, and RM samples with/without these calcium sources were prepared. Experiments were conducted under various CO₂ concentrations (100%, 15%, 1%) and atmospheric conditions for both RM suspensions and solid-state RM (simulating open-air piles).

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Yan et al. (2026): Does achieving the sustainable development goal of forest carbon sinks need to come at the expense of the stakeholders’ benefits?—Global perspective through systematic literature review

Yingzheng Yan, Qiuqin Zheng, Xiaohong Miao and Yuanzhu Wei, IN: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-06578-5

Realizing the economic value of forest carbon sinks (FCS) is crucial for advancing environmental sustainability. This study addresses the central question of how global FCS can simultaneously generate economic and livelihood benefits. Using stakeholder theory to analyze conflicts among various actors and cost-benefit theory to explore their decision-making logic, it conducts a systematic literature review (SLR) of 465 articles from the Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus databases, identifying key research trends and practical challenges in this field.

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Taylor et al. (2026): ARTEMIS version 1.0: A Reactive Transport Enhanced Rock Weathering Model with Coupled Soil Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics – Preprint

Lyla L. Taylor, Rachael H. James, Ilsa Kantola and David J. Beerling, IN: EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5823

Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is increasingly considered to be a promising carbon dioxide reduction (CDR) strategy, but carbon removal can be is difficult to verify with field measurements. Reactive transport models (RTMs) have the potential to shed light on the soil dynamics affecting CDR, and to quantify the timescales involved. Here, the authors present a new 1-D RTM representing all major processes affecting the chemistry of soils. These processes include nitrogen cycling kinetics, sorption and the choice of open or closed systems with respect to gas diffusion. They demonstrate this model’s utility with a detailed investigation examining the impact of those key ERW and soil processes on CDR and topsoil pH at a site in the United States Corn Belt.

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Yang & Feng (2026): Life Cycle Perspective-Based Modeling Assessment of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement

Chonggang Yang and Ellias Y. Feng, IN: Environmental Science & Technology, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c13054

The removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is proposed and discussed to mitigate climate change. The authors modeled the life cycles of four types of OAE technologies (ocean liming, accelerated weathering of limestone, mineral carbonation–ocean liming, and coastal enhanced weathering) in an Earth system model and investigated their environmental impacts.

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Mulyani (2026): From Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal to Circular Blue Bioeconomy: A Systematic Review of Seaweed Cultivation, Verification, and Sustainability Trade-offs

Sri Mulyani, IN: I-joins: International Journal of Innovation and Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.65094/i-joins.v1i2.8

Seaweed cultivation has gained global attention as a potential marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) strategy and as a cornerstone of the emerging circular blue bioeconomy. However, claims regarding its climate mitigation potential remain scientifically contested and unevenly governed. This systematic literature review synthesizes evidence across four interlinked dimensions: (i) carbon accounting, verification, and permanence; (ii) ecosystem and biogeochemical sustainability trade-offs; (iii) monitoring, MRV readiness, and spatial governance; and (iv) circular bioeconomy valorisation pathways.

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Davis et al. (2026): How much of the forest sink is passive? Case of the United States

Eric C. Davis, Brent Sohngen and David J. Lewis, IN: Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45336-5

Over time, carbon sequestered in temperate forests has increased, but the relative effects of passive and active drivers remain unclear. This study uses plot-level data to disentangle the contributions of six drivers (temperature, precipitation, CO₂, management, age composition, and area) to these increases in 14 forest groups of the conterminous United States.

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Hong et al. (2026): Carbon sequestration for geological negative emissions of the shale gas value chain in China

Pu Hong, Meiyu Guo, Sai Liang, Wenrui Shi, Yumeng Li and Xi Lu, IN: Nature Communications, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68829-y

Carbon sequestration in shale gas operations represents a crucial pathway to achieve Geological Negative Emissions, which is essential for global 1.5 °C targets. However, the emissions reduction potential and economic viability of this approach in China’s shale gas value chain remain unclear. This study quantifies the potential for transforming China’s shale gas value chain from an emission source to a carbon sink, while revealing spatial heterogeneity in economic feasibility.

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Hussain et al. (2026): High-Resolution Satellite-Driven Estimation of Photosynthetic Carbon Sequestration in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh

Nur Hussain, Md Adnan Rahman, Md Rezaul Karim, Parvez Rana, Md Nazrul Islam and Anselme Muzirafuti, IN: Remote Sensing, https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/18/3/401

Mangrove forests provide essential climate regulation and coastal protection, yet fine-scale quantification of carbon dynamics remains limited in the Sundarbans due to spatial heterogeneity and tidal influences. This study estimated canopy structural and photosynthetic dynamics from 2019 to 2023 by integrating 10 m spatial high-resolution remote sensing with a light use efficiency (LUE) modeling framework. Leaf Area Index (LAI) was retrieved at 10 m resolution using the PROSAIL radiative transfer model applied to Sentinel-2 data to characterize the canopy structure of the mangrove forest. LUE-based Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) was estimated using Sentinel-2 vegetation and water indices and MODIS fPAR with station observatory temperature data.

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