Communications Earth & Environment (Feb 2023)

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

  • Maren H. Gvein,
  • Xiangping Hu,
  • Jan S. Næss,
  • Marcos D. B. Watanabe,
  • Otávio Cavalett,
  • Maxime Malbranque,
  • Georg Kindermann,
  • Francesco Cherubini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00696-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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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.