Climate change mitigation scenarios that meet the Paris Agreement's objective of limiting
global warming usually assume an important role for carbon dioxide removal and negative …

Forests are sources of wood, non‐timber forest products and ecosystems services and
goods that benefit society as a whole, and are especially important to rural livelihoods …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

The views, opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this report
are strictly those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the views of funders or …

Executive Summary The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use1 (AFOLU) sector
encompasses managed ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while …

The most recent IPCC assessment has shown an important role for negative emissions
technologies (NETs) in limiting global warming to 2 C cost-effectively. However, a bottom-up …

In recent years, the ocean has come to be recognized as a global-scale reservoir for
atmospheric CO2. The removal of CO2 from oceanwater is thus considered a compelling …

Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national,
continental and global decision-making on climate change adaptation, mitigation, land use …

Regrowth of tropical secondary forests following complete or nearly complete removal of
forest vegetation actively stores carbon in aboveground biomass, partially counterbalancing …

Under suitable conditions, deforested land used for agricultural crops or pastures can revert
to forest through the assisted or unassisted process of natural regeneration. These naturally …