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

Ambitious climate targets, such as the 2 °C target, are likely to require the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Afforestation is one such mitigation option but could, through the competition for land, also lead to food prices hikes. In addition, afforestation often decreases land-surfac...

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Main Authors: Ulrich Kreidenweis, Florian Humpenöder, Miodrag Stevanović, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Elmar Kriegler, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Alexander Popp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/8/085001