Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems

A Goldstein, WR Turner, SA Spawn… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires rapid decarbonization and improved
ecosystem stewardship. To achieve the latter, ecosystems should be prioritized by …

The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands

LI Harris, K Richardson, KA Bona… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Northern peatlands have cooled the global climate by accumulating large quantities of soil
carbon (C) over thousands of years. Maintaining the C sink function of these peatlands and …

A global meta-analysis of soil organic carbon in the Anthropocene

D Beillouin, M Corbeels, J Demenois, D Berre… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic activities profoundly impact soil organic carbon (SOC), affecting its
contribution to ecosystem services such as climate regulation. Here, we conducted a …

[HTML][HTML] Protect, manage and then restore lands for climate mitigation

SC Cook-Patton, CR Drever, BW Griscom… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Limited time and resources remain to constrain the climate crisis. Natural climate solutions
represent promising options to protect, manage and restore natural lands for additional …

Evaluating nature-based solutions for climate mitigation and conservation requires comprehensive carbon accounting

H Keith, M Vardon, C Obst, V Young… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nature-based solutions (NbS) can address climate change, biodiversity loss, human well-
being and their interactions in an integrated way. A major barrier to achieving this is the lack …

[HTML][HTML] Intact forests in the United States: Proforestation mitigates climate change and serves the greatest good

WR Moomaw, SA Masino, EK Faison - Frontiers in Forests and Global …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Climate change and loss of biodiversity are widely recognized as the foremost
environmental challenges of our time. Forests annually sequester large quantities of …

The principles of natural climate solutions

PW Ellis, AM Page, S Wood, J Fargione… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural climate solutions can mitigate climate change in the near-term, during a climate-
critical window. Yet, persistent misunderstandings about what constitutes a natural climate …

Understanding the importance of primary tropical forest protection as a mitigation strategy

B Mackey, CF Kormos, H Keith, WR Moomaw… - … adaptation strategies for …, 2020 - Springer
Given the short time-frame to limit global warming, and the current emissions gap, it is critical
to prioritise mitigation actions. To date, scant attention has been paid to the mitigation …

Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626%

SL Maxwell, T Evans, JEM Watson, A Morel… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Intact tropical forests, free from substantial anthropogenic influence, store and sequester
large amounts of atmospheric carbon but are currently neglected in international climate …

Greening the business: How ambidextrous companies succeed in green innovation through to sustainable development

BL Cancela, A Coelho… - Business Strategy and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper seeks to investigate the impact of ambidexterity (exploration and exploitation) on
green product innovation and the success of new products through the effects of …