The answer lies in planting trees.
According to their research, increasing carbon storage inby planting trees or protecting forests can help achieve climate goals by removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
Their approach doesn't explicitly refer to managing globally important systems toward “forests” as traditionally defined by tree cover, but rather management toward the 'mature' woody carbon density characteristics and associated biodiversity complement of the native ecosystems. The difference between current and potential carbon storage globally was calculated at a resolution of 500 meters. After excluding the, the authors estimated an unrealized potential carbon storage opportunity of 287 petagrams. Among these, more than two-thirds of the available reservoir is held in the tropics, and 78 percent is in biomass such as trees and roots, in comparison to soil.
The authors state that the high-resolution dataset is an absolute reference point and can help establish priorities for land-based carbon storage.Stay ahead with the latest science, technology and innovation news, for free: