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Land-Management Options for Greenhouse Gas Removal and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Services and the Sustainable Development Goals
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Land-Management Options for Greenhouse Gas Removal and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Services and the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Smith, Pete Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, United Kingdom;
  • Adams, Justin World Economic Forum, 1223 Cologny, Switzerland
  • Beerling, David J. Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
  • Beringer, Tim Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt University of Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany
  • Calvin, Katherine V. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA
  • Fuss, Sabine Geographical Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany
  • Griscom, Bronson The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia 22203, USA
  • Hagemann, Nikolas Environmental Analytics, Agroscope, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
  • Kammann, Claudia Institute for Applied Ecology, Department of Climatic Effects on Special Crops, Hochschule Geisenheim University, 65366 Geisenheim, Germany
  • Kraxner, Florian International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
  • Minx, Jan C. Priestley International Centre for Climate, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
  • Popp, Alexander Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
  • Renforth, Phil Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh TD1 3HF, United Kingdom
  • Vicente Vicente, Jose Luis Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, 10829 Berlin, Germany
  • Keesstra, Saskia Civil, Surveying and Environmental Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan 2308, Australia
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  • Annual Review of Environment and Resources. - Annual Reviews. - 2019, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 255-286
English Land-management options for greenhouse gas removal (GGR) include afforestation or reforestation (AR), wetland restoration, soil carbon sequestration (SCS), biochar, terrestrial enhanced weathering (TEW), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). We assess the opportunities and risks associated with these options through the lens of their potential impacts on ecosystem services (Nature's Contributions to People; NCPs) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We find that all land-based GGR options contribute positively to at least some NCPs and SDGs. Wetland restoration and SCS almost exclusively deliver positive impacts. A few GGR options, such as afforestation, BECCS, and biochar potentially impact negatively some NCPs and SDGs, particularly when implemented at scale, largely through competition for land. For those that present risks or are least understood, more research is required, and demonstration projects need to proceed with caution. For options that present low risks and provide cobenefits, implementation can proceed more rapidly following no-regrets principles.
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