Natural climate solutions

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 114; no. 44; pp. 11645 - 11650
• Main Authors: Griscom, Bronson W., Adams, Justin, Ellis, Peter W., Houghton, Richard A., Lomax, Guy, Miteva, Daniela A., Schlesinger, William H., Shoch, David, Siikamäki, Juha V., Smith, Pete, Woodbury, Peter, Zganjar, Chris, Blackman, Allen, Campari, João, Conant, Richard T., Delgado, Christopher, Elias, Patricia, Gopalakrishna, Trisha, Hamsik, Marisa R., Herrero, Mario, Kiesecker, Joseph, Landis, Emily, Laestadius, Lars, Leavitt, Sara M., Minnemeyer, Susan, Polasky, Stephen, Potapov, Peter, Putz, Francis E., Sanderman, Jonathan, Silvius, Marcel, Wollenberg, Eva, Fargione, Joseph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 31.10.2017
• Subjects: Agricultural land; Agricultural management; Biodiversity; Carbon dioxide; Carbon sequestration; Climate; Climate adaptation; Climate change; Climate change mitigation; Climate Research; Conservation; cost effectiveness; Ecosystems; Environmental policy; Environmental stewardship; filtration; Food security; Grasslands; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; habitats; Klimatforskning; Land conservation; Land management; Land use planning; Paris Agreement; Physical Sciences; pollution; Restoration; Social Sciences; soil quality; uncertainty; Water filtration; Water pollution; Water purification; Wetlands; Wildlife conservation; agriculture; wetlands; climate mitigation; forests; ecosystems

Better stewardship of land is needed to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement goal of holding warming to below 2 °C; however, confusion persists about the specific set of land stewardship options available and their mitigation potential. To address this, we identify and quantify “natural climate solut...