Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

Stephanie Roe; Charlotte Streck; Michael Obersteiner; Stefan Frank; Bronson Griscom; Laurent Drouet; Oliver Fricko; Mykola Gusti; Nancy Harris; Tomoko Hasegawa; Zeke Hausfather; Petr Havlík; Jo House; Gert-Jan Nabuurs; Alexander Popp; María José Sanz Sánchez; Jonathan Sanderman; Pete Smith; Elke Stehfest; Deborah Lawrence

doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0591-9

Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

Stephanie Roe^*, Charlotte Streck, Michael Obersteiner, Stefan Frank, Bronson Griscom, Laurent Drouet, Oliver Fricko, Mykola Gusti, Nancy Harris, Tomoko Hasegawa, Zeke Hausfather, Petr Havlík, Jo House, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Alexander Popp, María José Sanz Sánchez, Jonathan Sanderman, Pete Smith, Elke Stehfest, Deborah Lawrence

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The Paris Agreement introduced an ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Here we combine a review of modelled pathways and literature on mitigation strategies, and develop a land-sector roadmap of priority measures and regions that can help to achieve the 1.5 °C temperature goal. Transforming the land sector and deploying measures in agriculture, forestry, wetlands and bioenergy could feasibly and sustainably contribute about 30%, or 15 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) per year, of the global mitigation needed in 2050 to deliver on the 1.5 °C target, but it will require substantially more effort than the 2 °C target. Risks and barriers must be addressed and incentives will be necessary to scale up mitigation while maximizing sustainable development, food security and environmental co-benefits.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	817-828
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0591-9
Publication status	Published - 21 Oct 2019

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Roe, S., Streck, C., Obersteiner, M., Frank, S., Griscom, B., Drouet, L., Fricko, O., Gusti, M., Harris, N., Hasegawa, T., Hausfather, Z., Havlík, P., House, J., Nabuurs, G.-J., Popp, A., Sánchez, M. J. S., Sanderman, J., Smith, P., Stehfest, E., & Lawrence, D. (2019). Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world. Nature Climate Change, 9, 817-828. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0591-9

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