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Impacts devalue the potential of large-scale terrestrial CO2 removal through biomass plantations [1]

Large-scale biomass plantations (BPs) are often considered a feasible and safe climate engineering proposal for extracting carbon from the atmosphere and, thereby, reducing global mean temperatures. However, the capacity of such terrestrial carbon dioxide removal (tCDR) strategies and their larger Earth system impacts remain to be comprehensively studied—even more so under higher carbon emissions and progressing climate change. Here, we use a spatially explicit process-based biosphere model to systematically quantify the potentials and trade-offs of a range of BP scenarios dedicated to tCDR, representing different assumptions about which areas are convertible.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
15/09/2016
L R Boysen [3], W Lucht [4], D Gerten & et al [5]
Environmental Research Letters [6]
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Tags:
Carbon Dioxide [7], Biomass [8], Climate Change [9], Climate Science [10]
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/impacts-devalue-potential-large-scale-terrestrial-co2-removal-through-biomass
[2] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/095010
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/l-r-boysen
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/w-lucht
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/d-gerten-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/environmental-research-letters
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biomass
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-science