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Cost-effective restoration for carbon sequestration across Brazil's biomes by F.de.V. Barros; K. Lewis; A.D. Robertson; R.T. Pennington; T.C. Hill; C. Matthews; D. Lira-Martins; G.G. Mazzochini; R.S. Oliveira; L. Rowland is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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Tropical ecosystems are central to the global focus on halting and reversing habitat destruction as a means of mitigating carbon emissions. Brazil has been highlighted as a vital part of global climate agreements because, whilst ongoing land-use change causes it to be the world's fifth biggest greenhouse gas emitting country, it also has one of the greatest potentials to implement ecosystem restoration. Global carbon markets provide the opportunity of a financially viable way to implement restoration projects at scale. However, except for rainforests, the restoration potential of many major tropical biomes is not widely recognised, with the result that carbon sequestration potential may be squandered. We synthesize data on land availability, land degradation status, restoration costs, area of native vegetation remaining, carbon storage potential and carbon market prices for 5475 municipalities across Brazil's major biomes, including the savannas and tropical dry forests. Using a modelling analysis, we determine how fast restoration could be implemented across these biomes within existing carbon markets. We argue that even with a sole focus on carbon, we must restore other tropical

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Author

F.de.V. Barros; K. Lewis; A.D. Robertson; R.T. Pennington; T.C. Hill; C. Matthews; D. Lira-Martins; G.G. Mazzochini; R.S. Oliveira; L. Rowland

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)