Gambling With the Climate: How Risky of a Bet Are Natural Climate Solutions?
Gambling With the Climate: How Risky of a Bet Are Natural Climate Solutions?
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与气候赌博:自然气候解决方案的风险有多大?
DOI:
10.1029/2021av000490
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发表时间:
2021
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影响因子:
8.4
通讯作者:
W. Anderegg
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作者:
W. Anderegg
as nature-based climate solutions (NCS) to mitigate human-caused climate change. NCS frequently bring an array of potential co-benefits, including to biodiversity and conservation, and thus make an attractive potential tool to tackle climate change (Griscom et al., 2017). Crucially, to function as climate mitigation, NCS efforts must meet several fundamental criteria including: (a) providing additional carbon storage beyond what would have occurred otherwise, (b) accounting for emissions that shift elsewhere due to NCS activities (termed “leakage”), (c) having a net cooling effect on the climate by integrating the central biophysical and biogeochemical impacts of ecosystem changes, and finally (d) achieving a level of carbon storage “permanence” over long periods of time (typically considered to be 100 years or longer) (Figure 1) (Anderegg et al., 2020; Anderson et al., 2011; Hurteau et al., 2013; Ruseva et al., 2017). If climate change drives losses of carbon storage in forests, that would dramatically undermine the role and potential of NCS in climate goals and policy (Baldocchi & Penuelas, 2019; Anderegg et al., 2020). Thus, cutting-edge science to evaluate the permanence of forest carbon storage in the 21 century is critically important to a wide array of stakeholders from governments to corporations to non-governmental organizations.