Resource type:
Research
Link to knowledge resource
Main entity:
University of Oxford
Type of entity:
Research centre/University
Key themes:
Climate change mitigation
Societal challenges:
Climate Resilience
Scope:
Global
Description:
This publication clarifies the role of NbS in climate change mitigation by presenting the projected effect of worldwide implementation of NbS on global temperatures. This approach differs from previous calculations of the climate change mitigation potential of NbS, which have focused solely on the amount of carbon that NbS could remove from the atmosphere. The analysis shows that although NbS have an important role to play in climate change mitigation up until 2050, their greatest contribution will be in the second half of this century, but to reap such benefits the processes of ecosystem protection, management and restoration must be initiated as soon as possible.
Date:
2021
Journal:
Nature
Language:
EN
