Natural Climate Solutions: Feasible or Fantasy?

Harvard FAS

“Natural climate solutions” are a set of conservation, restoration and improved land management actions that have been championed as low-cost, easy-to-implement sources of climate mitigation. Some have claimed that natural climate solutions can offer more than 30% of the required mitigation of “near-term” carbon emissions to hold global warming below 2°C. Others have criticized these claims for overstating the potential of biological carbon sinks, arguing that the advocates for natural…