Land‐based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country

Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress

(2021) Giacomo Grassi et al.   Nature Climate Change

Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges

(2020) Nathalie Seddon et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics

(2020) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The impact of paying for forest conservation on perceived tenure security in Ecuador

(2020) Kelly W Jones et al.   Conservation Letters

Large climate mitigation potential from adding trees to agricultural lands

(2020) Melissa Chapman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Tree planting is not a simple solution

(2020) Karen D. Holl et al.   SCIENCE

Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems

(2020) Allie Goldstein et al.   Nature Climate Change

Understanding Adaptation Finance Allocation: Which Factors Enable or Constrain Vulnerable Countries to Access Funding?

(2020) Deepal Doshi et al.   Sustainability

Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation

(2020) Florian Humpenöder et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Multiple cropping systems of the world and the potential for increasing cropping intensity

(2020) Katharina Waha et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

(2020) Susan C. Cook-Patton et al.   NATURE

How China could be carbon neutral by mid-century

(2020) Smriti Mallapaty   NATURE

The climate change mitigation potential of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

(2020) S. V. Hanssen et al.   Nature Climate Change

The economic costs of planting, preserving, and managing the world’s forests to mitigate climate change

(2020) K. G. Austin et al.   Nature Communications

Reduced-impact logging for climate change mitigation (RIL-C) can halve selective logging emissions from tropical forests

(2019) Peter W. Ellis et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions

(2019) Florence Pendrill et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change: lessons and challenges from Brazil

(2019) Mercedes M. C. Bustamante et al.   Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Potential for low-cost carbon dioxide removal through tropical reforestation

(2019) Jonah Busch et al.   Nature Climate Change

Impacts of Land-Based Greenhouse Gas Removal Options on Ecosystem Services and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

(2019) Pete Smith et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Consequences of agricultural total factor productivity growth for the sustainability of global farming: accounting for direct and indirect land use effects

(2019) Nelson Villoria   Environmental Research Letters

Afforestation for climate change mitigation: Potentials, risks and trade‐offs

(2019) Jonathan C. Doelman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

(2019) Stephanie Roe et al.   Nature Climate Change

Which practices co‐deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land degradation and desertification?

(2019) Pete Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global energy sector emission reductions and bioenergy use: overview of the bioenergy demand phase of the EMF-33 model comparison

(2018) Nico Bauer et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Large-scale bioenergy production: how to resolve sustainability trade-offs?

(2018) Florian Humpenöder et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects

(2018) Sabine Fuss et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A spatially explicit representation of conservation agriculture for application in global change studies

(2018) Reinhard Prestele et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Exploring SSP land-use dynamics using the IMAGE model: Regional and gridded scenarios of land-use change and land-based climate change mitigation

(2018) Jonathan C. Doelman et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Emissions mitigation opportunities for savanna countries from early dry season fire management

(2018) Geoffrey J. Lipsett-Moore et al.   Nature Communications

Structural change as a key component for agricultural non-CO2 mitigation efforts

(2018) Stefan Frank et al.   Nature Communications

Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 °C

(2018) Joeri Rogelj et al.   Nature Climate Change

Revisiting the Factors Shaping Outcomes for Forest and Landscape Restoration in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Way Forward for Policy, Practice and Research

(2018) Ida Djenontin et al.   Sustainability

Looking under the hood: A comparison of techno-economic assumptions across national and global integrated assessment models

(2018) Volker Krey et al.   ENERGY

Integrated assessment of biomass supply and demand in climate change mitigation scenarios

(2018) Vassilis Daioglou et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

The Global Mangrove Watch—A New 2010 Global Baseline of Mangrove Extent

(2018) Pete Bunting et al.   Remote Sensing

The MESSAGE Integrated Assessment Model and the ix modeling platform (ixmp): An open framework for integrated and cross-cutting analysis of energy, climate, the environment, and sustainable development

(2018) Daniel Huppmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Citizens’ preferences for tackling climate change. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of their freely formulated solutions

(2017) Endre Tvinnereim et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Fossil-fueled development (SSP5): An energy and resource intensive scenario for the 21st century

(2017) Elmar Kriegler et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Land-use futures in the shared socio-economic pathways

(2017) Alexander Popp et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

(2017) Keywan Riahi et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Natural climate solutions

(2017) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A roadmap for rapid decarbonization

(2017) Johan Rockström et al.   SCIENCE

The key role of forests in meeting climate targets requires science for credible mitigation

(2017) Giacomo Grassi et al.   Nature Climate Change

The cost and feasibility of marine coastal restoration

(2016) Elisa Bayraktarov et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Afforestation to mitigate climate change: impacts on food prices under consideration of albedo effects

(2016) Ulrich Kreidenweis et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2 °C target

(2016) Eva Wollenberg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C

(2016) Joeri Rogelj et al.   NATURE

Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change cobenefits of dietary change

(2016) Marco Springmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change adaptation and mitigation in smallholder crop–livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa: a call for integrated impact assessments

(2016) Katrien Descheemaeker et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Optimal bioenergy power generation for climate change mitigation with or without carbon sequestration

(2016) Dominic Woolf et al.   Nature Communications

Opportunities for biodiversity gains under the world’s largest reforestation programme

(2016) Fangyuan Hua et al.   Nature Communications

Can developing countries leapfrog the centralized electrification paradigm?

(2016) Todd Levin et al.   Energy for Sustainable Development

Projections of the availability and cost of residues from agriculture and forestry

(2015) Vassilis Daioglou et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Policy options for effective REDD+ implementation in Indonesia: the significance of forest tenure reform

(2015) M. Saito-Jensen et al.   INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY REVIEW

Managing nitrogen for sustainable development

(2015) Xin Zhang et al.   NATURE

The carbon footprint of traditional woodfuels

(2015) Robert Bailis et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global mitigation potential and costs of reducing agricultural non-CO2greenhouse gas emissions through 2030

(2015) Robert H. Beach et al.   Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

A reassessment of global bioenergy potential in 2050

(2014) Stephanie Searle et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Co-benefits, trade-offs, barriers and policies for greenhouse gas mitigation in the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector

(2014) Mercedes Bustamante et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health

(2014) David Tilman et al.   NATURE

Land use representation in a global CGE model for long-term simulation: CET vs. logit functions

(2014) Shinichiro Fujimori et al.   Food Security

Importance of food-demand management for climate mitigation

(2014) Bojana Bajželj et al.   Nature Climate Change

Economic mitigation challenges: how further delay closes the door for achieving climate targets

(2013) Gunnar Luderer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

How much land-based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals?

(2013) Pete Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Does secure land tenure save forests? A meta-analysis of the relationship between land tenure and tropical deforestation

(2013) Brian E. Robinson et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

(2013) M. Herrero et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Agricultural residue production and potentials for energy and materials services

(2013) Niclas Scott Bentsen et al.   PROGRESS IN ENERGY AND COMBUSTION SCIENCE

A preliminary study on use of cocoa pod husk as a renewable source of energy in Indonesia

(2011) M. Syamsiro et al.   Energy for Sustainable Development

Assessment of the availability of agricultural crop residues in the European Union: Potential and limitations for bioenergy use

(2010) Nicolae Scarlat et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change

(2010) Dominic Woolf et al.   Nature Communications

Global Patterns of Cropland Use Intensity

(2010) Stefan Siebert et al.   Remote Sensing

Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000

(2008) Chad Monfreda et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES