Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy

W Amelung, D Bossio, W de Vries… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Sustainable soil carbon sequestration practices need to be rapidly scaled up and
implemented to contribute to climate change mitigation. We highlight that the major potential …

Regenerative agriculture—A literature review on the practices and mechanisms used to improve soil health

R Khangura, D Ferris, C Wagg, J Bowyer - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Conventional farming practices can lead to soil degradation and a decline in productivity.
Regenerative agriculture (RA) is purported by advocates as a solution to these issues that …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon farming: are soil carbon certificates a suitable tool for climate change mitigation?

C Paul, B Bartkowski, C Dönmez, A Don… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in agricultural soils removes carbon dioxide
from the atmosphere and contributes towards achieving carbon neutrality. For farmers …

Carbon for soils, not soils for carbon

GYK Moinet, R Hijbeek, DP van Vuuren… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The role of soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration as a 'win‐win'solution to both climate
change and food insecurity receives an increasing promotion. The opportunity may be too …

Soils and sustainable development goals of the United Nations: An International Union of Soil Sciences perspective

R Lal, J Bouma, E Brevik, L Dawson, DJ Field… - Geoderma …, 2021 - Elsevier
Being critical to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations,
strengthening understanding of the properties and processes of soil at national and regional …

Carbon sequestration in soils and climate change mitigation—Definitions and pitfalls

A Don, F Seidel, J Leifeld, T Kätterer… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The term carbon (C) sequestration has not just become a buzzword but is something of a
siren's call to scientific communicators and media outlets. Carbon sequestration is the …

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 …

How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal

P Smith, JF Soussana, D Angers… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing international interest in better managing soils to increase soil organic
carbon (SOC) content to contribute to climate change mitigation, to enhance resilience to …

Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils

PM Kopittke, AA Berhe, Y Carrillo… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Not only do soils provide 98.7% of the calories consumed by humans, they also provide
numerous other functions upon which planetary survivability closely depends. However, our …

Integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to constrain estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange

JP Casas-Ruiz, P Bodmer, KA Bona, D Butman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In this Perspective, we put forward an integrative framework to improve estimates of land-
atmosphere carbon exchange based on the accumulation of carbon in the landscape as …