By deploying large-scale conservation-based strategies, nature could absorb more carbon than the entire global transportation sector emits annually—some 10 gigatons of CO2 per year, according to a commentary published today in the journal Nature. That might not sound like much, but Girardin told me that this would translate into much greater, long-term benefits. “Yet our model shows that nature-based solutions can have a powerful role in cooling our global temperatures in the long term, up to the end of the century and beyond. The commentary further notes that, compared to other climate mitigation strategies, nature-based solutions receive only a small quantity of investment. The British Ecological Society also unveiled a report, covered by Forbes.com’s Daniela De Lorenzo and titled ‘Nature-based Solutions,’ which comes to broadly similar conclusions.

Source: Forbes May 12, 2021 16:41 UTC