The limits to global-warming mitigation by terrestrial carbon removal

The burning question

(2017) Warren Cornwall   SCIENCE

A roadmap for rapid decarbonization

(2017) Johan Rockström et al.   SCIENCE

Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability

(2016) Johan Rockström et al.   AMBIO

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

(2016) Ulrich Kreidenweis et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Impacts devalue the potential of large-scale terrestrial CO2removal through biomass plantations

(2016) L R Boysen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Food Surplus and Its Climate Burdens

(2016) Ceren Hiç et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

What would it take to achieve the Paris temperature targets?

(2016) Benjamin M. Sanderson et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Is extensive terrestrial carbon dioxide removal a ‘green’ form of geoengineering? A global modelling study

(2016) Vera Heck et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Large-scale impact of climate change vs. land-use change on future biome shifts in Latin America

(2016) Alice Boit et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil carbon sequestration and biochar as negative emission technologies

(2016) Pete Smith   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Why the right climate target was agreed in Paris

(2016) Hans Joachim Schellnhuber et al.   Nature Climate Change

Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal

(2016) Carl-Friedrich Schleussner et al.   Nature Climate Change

The world's biggest gamble

(2016) Johan Rockström et al.   Earths Future

Bioenergy and rural development: The role of agroforestry in a Tanzanian village economy

(2016) Anja Faße et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets

(2016) Robert J. Zomer et al.   Scientific Reports

Three centuries of dual pressure from land use and climate change on the biosphere

(2015) Sebastian Ostberg et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The effectiveness of net negative carbon dioxide emissions in reversing anthropogenic climate change

(2015) Katarzyna B Tokarska et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Zero emission targets as long-term global goals for climate protection

(2015) Joeri Rogelj et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

(2015) W. Steffen et al.   SCIENCE

Energy system transformations for limiting end-of-century warming to below 1.5 °C

(2015) Joeri Rogelj et al.   Nature Climate Change

Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

(2015) Pete Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

Investigating afforestation and bioenergy CCS as climate change mitigation strategies

(2014) Florian Humpenöder et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Biochar - synergies and trade-offs between soil enhancing properties and C sequestration potential

(2014) Kyle Crombie et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Preferential cooling of hot extremes from cropland albedo management

(2014) Edouard L. Davin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Importance of food-demand management for climate mitigation

(2014) Bojana Bajželj et al.   Nature Climate Change

Betting on negative emissions

(2014) Sabine Fuss et al.   Nature Climate Change

BECCS capability of dedicated bioenergy crops under a future land-use scenario targeting net negative carbon emissions

(2014) Etsushi Kato et al.   Earths Future

The Science of Geoengineering

(2013) Ken Caldeira et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The value of bioenergy in low stabilization scenarios: an assessment using REMIND-MAgPIE

(2013) David Klein et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Implications of weak near-term climate policies on long-term mitigation pathways

(2013) Gunnar Luderer et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Contribution of permafrost soils to the global carbon budget

(2013) Sibyll Schaphoff 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

Long-Term Climate Change Commitment and Reversibility: An EMIC Intercomparison

(2013) Kirsten Zickfeld et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Effect of Anthropogenic Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes on Climate and Land Carbon Storage in CMIP5 Projections for the Twenty-First Century

(2013) V. Brovkin et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

(2013) Andrew D. Friend et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI–MIP): Project framework

(2013) Lila Warszawski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate risk adaptation by smallholder farmers: the roles of trees and agroforestry

(2013) Rodel D Lasco et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Future carbon dioxide removal via biomass energy constrained by agricultural efficiency and dietary trends

(2012) Thomas W. R. Powell et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Intercomparison of bias-correction methods for monthly temperature and precipitation simulated by multiple climate models

(2012) Satoshi Watanabe et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

(2011) Karl E. Taylor et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

RCP4.5: a pathway for stabilization of radiative forcing by 2100

(2011) Allison M. Thomson et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

A review of climate geoengineering proposals

(2011) Naomi E. Vaughan et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

RCP 8.5—A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions

(2011) Keywan Riahi et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Bioenergy production potential of global biomass plantations under environmental and agricultural constraints

(2011) TIM BERINGER et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Past land use decisions have increased mitigation potential of reforestation

(2011) J. Pongratz et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Small temperature benefits provided by realistic afforestation efforts

(2011) Vivek K. Arora et al.   Nature Geoscience

The potential for land-based biological CO2removal to lower future atmospheric CO2concentration

(2011) Timothy M Lenton   Carbon Management

Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change

(2010) Dominic Woolf et al.   Nature Communications

Virtual water content of temperate cereals and maize: Present and potential future patterns

(2009) Marianela Fader et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

CO2fertilization in temperate FACE experiments not representative of boreal and tropical forests

(2008) THOMAS HICKLER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Modeled interactive effects of precipitation, temperature, and [CO2] on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones

(2008) YIQI LUO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Beyond Deforestation: Restoring Forests and Ecosystem Services on Degraded Lands

(2008) R. L. Chazdon   SCIENCE