Zheng Q., Siman K., Zeng Y., Teo H.C., Sarira T.V., Sreekar R., Koh L.P. (2022). Future land-use competition constrains natural climate solutions. Science of the Total Environment, 10/09/2022, vol. 838, part. 2, p. 1-10.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156409
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156409
Titre : | Future land-use competition constrains natural climate solutions (2022) |
Auteurs : | Q. Zheng ; K. Siman ; Y. Zeng ; H.C. Teo ; T.V. Sarira ; R. Sreekar ; L.P. Koh |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Science of the Total Environment (vol. 838, part. 2, September 2022) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 1-10 |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Catégories principales 04 - DEVELOPPEMENT LOCAL ET REGIONAL ; 4.2 - FoncierThésaurus IAMM UTILISATION DES TERRES ; AFFECTATION DE RESSOURCES ; GESTION DES RESSOURCES ; CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQUE ; CONFLIT D'USAGE |
Résumé : | Natural climate solutions (NCS) are an essential complement to climate mitigation and have been increasingly incorporated into international mitigation strategies. Yet, with the ongoing population growth, allocating natural areas for NCS may compete with other socioeconomic priorities, especially urban development and food security. Here, we projected the impacts of land-use competition incurred by cropland and urban expansion on the climate mitigation potential of NCS. We mapped the areas available for implementing 9 key NCS strategies and estimated their climate change mitigation potential. Then, we overlaid these areas with future cropland and urban expansion maps projected under three Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) scenarios (2020-2100) and calculated the resulting mitigation potential loss of each selected NCS strategy. Our results estimate a substantial reduction, 0.3-2.8 GtCO2 yr-1 or 4-39 %, in NCS mitigation potential, of which cropland expansion for fulfilling future food demand is the primary cause. This impact is particularly severe in the tropics where NCS hold the most abundant mitigation potential. Our findings highlight immediate actions prioritized to tropical areas are important to best realize NCS and are key to developing realistic and sustainable climate policies. |
Cote : | Réservé lecteur CIHEAM |
URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156409 |