Carbon Farming – Land Use Natural Climate Solutions
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Soils Can Deliver 5.5 Billion Tonnes of CO2 Storage Per Year
Restoring and protecting the planet’s soils could remove up to 5.5 billion tonnes of CO2 annually—almost equivalent to the current annual emissions of the ... -
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Indigenous Approaches Could Support Ecological Health in the Amazon
A flurry of news reports earlier this year suggested that the future of the Amazon—and, therefore, of the planet—would be in good hands if ... -
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Tropical Forests Lose One-Third of Carbon Storage Ability, Could Soon Become Carbon Source
Tropical forests have lost much of their ability to pull carbon dioxide out of the air, and could begin turning into net carbon sources ... -
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Drawdown’s Latest ‘Tools of Possibility’ Show Path to 1.5°C, with 1,570 Billion Tons of Emission Cuts by 2050
Humanity can prevent or draw down 1,570 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions between 2020 and 2050 to approach a 1.5°C threshold for average ... -
UK May Pay Farmers to Store Floodwaters on Their Land
The Boris Johnson government’s new environment secretary is suggesting the UK pay farmers to store water on their property to protect nearby communities from ... -
Carbon Storage Speeds Up in Boreal Forests, Declines in Tropics as Deforestation Takes Its Toll
The world’s boreal forests are absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at faster rates, at the same time that tropical forests are becoming less ... -
Updated Climate Risk Plan Will Withdraw Disaster Aid for New Homes in Flood Plains
Canadians building or buying new homes in areas at high risk for flooding will no longer have access to federal disaster relief under a ... -
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Agroforestry Can Reduce Wildfire Risk for Mediterranean, Australia
Bringing together crops, trees, livestock, and local farmers in a land management system based on agroforestry can significantly reduce wildfire risk in the Mediterranean, ... -
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Trillion-Tree Initiative Could Distract from Climate Action, Analyst Warns
Constraints of time and space, the likelihood of accounting boondoggles, and the fact that forests are inherently unstable climate sinks, ever more so as ... -
Single-Species Plantations Store Less Carbon, Less Reliably Than Mixed Natural Forests
Regenerating natural forests or replacing them with multi-species native tree plantations could store more carbon than plantation monocultures, while supporting biodiversity conservation and other ... -
Tropical Staple Trees Would Save 20.19 Gigatons of Carbon by 2050
Tropical staple trees rank #14 on Drawdown’s list of climate solutions. This option could eliminate 20.19 gigatons of atmospheric carbon dioxide at a cost ... -
Logging Costs Ontario 650,000 Hectares of Forest, 16.5 Mt of Carbon Storage Over 30 Years
Despite persistent claims that Canada has a near-zero deforestation rate, Ontario alone has lost an expanse of productive forest equivalent to 10 times the ... -
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Brazilian Amazon Sees Doubling of Deforestation Rate for November
The Amazon suffered more than twice as much deforestation last month as it did in November 2018, a savage uptick which will bring Brazilian ... -
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Scientists Urge ‘Peak Meat’ by 2030, But Farm Rep Sees More Complex Picture
Having all but the poorest countries on Earth achieve “peak meat” consumption by 2030 will be critical in the fight to keep global temperatures ... -
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Logging Costs Ontario 650,000 Hectares of Forest, 16.5 Mt of Carbon Storage Over 30 Years
Despite persistent claims that Canada has a near-zero deforestation rate, Ontario alone has lost an expanse of productive forest equivalent to 10 times the ...
