Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Current Uncertainties and Data Gaps in the Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration Potentials
Nature-based solutions (NBS) to climate change, which harness natural ecosystems to achieve diverse environmental objectives, are becoming increasingly central to climate action plans due in large part to their multifaceted benefits and potential for immediate scalability. This white paper explores...
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| author | Macfarlane, Maria Jia, Ruofei Fricke, Evan Vallicrosa, Helena Yu, Jevan Mirzagholi, Leila Coleman, Evan Olivetti, Elsa Terrer, César |
| author_facet | Macfarlane, Maria Jia, Ruofei Fricke, Evan Vallicrosa, Helena Yu, Jevan Mirzagholi, Leila Coleman, Evan Olivetti, Elsa Terrer, César |
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| description | Nature-based solutions (NBS) to climate change, which harness natural ecosystems to achieve diverse environmental objectives, are becoming increasingly central to climate action plans due in large part to their multifaceted benefits and potential for immediate scalability. This white paper explores the classes of ecosystem intervention that present these salient opportunities to mitigate climate change. Interventions that enhance and preserve ecosystems provide opportunities to protect and strengthen the terrestrial carbon sink, while also reversing the degradation and damage caused by centuries of human development. The paper explains the strategic vision for NBS engagement, which is developing through industry-academic partnership at the MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium (MCSC). The white paper explores different yet complementary sides of the multifaceted measurement and NBS conversations. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1541492024-04-17T03:13:25Z Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Current Uncertainties and Data Gaps in the Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration Potentials Macfarlane, Maria Jia, Ruofei Fricke, Evan Vallicrosa, Helena Yu, Jevan Mirzagholi, Leila Coleman, Evan Olivetti, Elsa Terrer, César Soil Nature-based Solutions Measurement Data Climate change Sustainability Climate Nature-based solutions (NBS) to climate change, which harness natural ecosystems to achieve diverse environmental objectives, are becoming increasingly central to climate action plans due in large part to their multifaceted benefits and potential for immediate scalability. This white paper explores the classes of ecosystem intervention that present these salient opportunities to mitigate climate change. Interventions that enhance and preserve ecosystems provide opportunities to protect and strengthen the terrestrial carbon sink, while also reversing the degradation and damage caused by centuries of human development. The paper explains the strategic vision for NBS engagement, which is developing through industry-academic partnership at the MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium (MCSC). The white paper explores different yet complementary sides of the multifaceted measurement and NBS conversations. 2024-04-16T14:39:28Z 2024-04-16T14:39:28Z 2024-04-16 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/154149 en_US CC0 1.0 Universal http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Soil Nature-based Solutions Measurement Data Climate change Sustainability Climate Macfarlane, Maria Jia, Ruofei Fricke, Evan Vallicrosa, Helena Yu, Jevan Mirzagholi, Leila Coleman, Evan Olivetti, Elsa Terrer, César Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Current Uncertainties and Data Gaps in the Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration Potentials |
| title | Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Current Uncertainties and Data Gaps in the Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration Potentials |
| title_full | Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Current Uncertainties and Data Gaps in the Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration Potentials |
| title_fullStr | Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Current Uncertainties and Data Gaps in the Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration Potentials |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Current Uncertainties and Data Gaps in the Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration Potentials |
| title_short | Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Current Uncertainties and Data Gaps in the Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration Potentials |
| title_sort | nature based climate solutions current uncertainties and data gaps in the assessment of soil carbon sequestration potentials |
| topic | Soil Nature-based Solutions Measurement Data Climate change Sustainability Climate |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/154149 |
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