Mapping forest-based natural climate solutions. Shanley, C. S., Graves, R. A., Drever, C. R., Schindel, M., Robertson, J. C., Case, M. J., & Biswas, T. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1):1–12, September, 2024. Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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Natural climate solutions are critical actions of ecosystem stewardship to mitigate climate change. However, prioritizing locations and possible actions is challenging. We demonstrate a generalizable approach for identifying potential opportunities for natural climate solutions by creating a spatial hierarchy of land management restrictions. Global forest carbon stocks and flux models were then used to explore forest-based natural climate solutions in the high-carbon density coastal temperate rainforests of western North America. Our results show 13 million hectares are available for action, an area that holds 4,900 ± 640 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent and represents 45% of regional and 0.5% of global aboveground forest carbon stocks. Based on historical trends, a 10% reduction in average annual forest carbon loss through improved forest management and conservation could reduce forest carbon emissions by 9.1 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, corresponding to 5.2% of the 2030 land-based climate commitments made by the United States and Canada. Large-scale implementation of natural climate solutions will require collaborative planning with forest-dependent communities, industry, governments, and Indigenous peoples.
@article{shanley_mapping_2024,
	title = {Mapping forest-based natural climate solutions},
	volume = {5},
	copyright = {2024 The Author(s)},
	issn = {2662-4435},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01678-z},
	doi = {10.1038/s43247-024-01678-z},
	abstract = {Natural climate solutions are critical actions of ecosystem stewardship to mitigate climate change. However, prioritizing locations and possible actions is challenging. We demonstrate a generalizable approach for identifying potential opportunities for natural climate solutions by creating a spatial hierarchy of land management restrictions. Global forest carbon stocks and flux models were then used to explore forest-based natural climate solutions in the high-carbon density coastal temperate rainforests of western North America. Our results show 13 million hectares are available for action, an area that holds 4,900 ± 640 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent and represents 45\% of regional and 0.5\% of global aboveground forest carbon stocks. Based on historical trends, a 10\% reduction in average annual forest carbon loss through improved forest management and conservation could reduce forest carbon emissions by 9.1 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, corresponding to 5.2\% of the 2030 land-based climate commitments made by the United States and Canada. Large-scale implementation of natural climate solutions will require collaborative planning with forest-dependent communities, industry, governments, and Indigenous peoples.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2024-09-13},
	journal = {Communications Earth \& Environment},
	author = {Shanley, Colin S. and Graves, Rose A. and Drever, C. Ronnie and Schindel, Michael and Robertson, James C. and Case, Michael J. and Biswas, Tanushree},
	month = sep,
	year = {2024},
	note = {Publisher: Nature Publishing Group},
	keywords = {NALCMS},
	pages = {1--12},
}

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