Significant reliance on land-based methods of carbon dioxide removal can protect biodiversity by avoiding climate impacts - but it could also compete with biodiversity protection unless there is better site selection, according to a new study.
Significant reliance on land-based methods of carbon dioxide removal can protect biodiversity by avoiding climate impacts - but it could also compete with biodiversity protection unless there is better site selection, according to a new study.
Research published today in Nature Climate Change analysed future projections across five large-scale modelling projects, as well as considering 135,000 species and 70 biodiversity hotspots, to produce spatial mapping of where land-based carbon removal and storage may be sited in the future.
Led by scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), it draws on biodiversity data from the Wallace Initiative, led by Dr Jeff Price and colleagues from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia (UEA), and collaborators at James Cook University.
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