Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland

Natural revegetation of abandoned cropland in biodiversity priority areas and afforestation and growth of bioenergy crop in other areas could achieve a climate change mitigation potential of 0.8–4.0 GtCO2-eq. per year, according to bottom-up estimates based on biomass yields and life-cycle emissions...

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Main Authors: Maren H. Gvein, Xiangping Hu, Jan S. Næss, Marcos D. B. Watanabe, Otávio Cavalett, Maxime Malbranque, Georg Kindermann, Francesco Cherubini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-02-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00696-7

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