Assessing evidence on the impacts of nature-based interventions for climate change mitigation: a systematic map of primary and secondary research from subtropical and tropical terrestrial regions

Samantha H. Cheng, Sebastien Costedoat, Amanda Sigouin, Gabriel F. Calistro, Catherine J. Chamberlain, Peter Lichtenthal, Morena Mills, A. Justin Nowakowski, Eleanor J. Sterling, Jen Tinsman, Meredith Wiggins, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Steven W. J. Canty, Allison Fritts-Penniman, Arundhati Jagadish, Kelly Jones, Michael B. Mascia, Ana Porzecanski, Chris Zganjar, Carlos L. Muñoz Brenes

Environmental Evidence, 12

October 25, 2023

Nature-based interventions (NbIs) for climate change mitigation include a diverse set of interventions aimed at conserving, restoring, and/or managing natural and modified ecosystems to improve their ability to store and sequester carbon and avoid greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Recent projections estimate that terrestrial NbIs can lead to more than one-third of the climate change mitigation necessary to meet the Paris Climate Agreement by 2030. Further, these interventions can provide co-benefits in the form of social and ecological outcomes. Despite growing recognition of the potential benefits, a clear characterization of the distribution and occurrence of evidence which supports linkages between different types of NbIs and outcomes for climate change mitigation, ecosystems, and people remains poorly understood.

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Cheng, S. H., Costedoat, S., Sigouin, A., Calistro, G. F., Chamberlain, C. J., Lichtenthal, P., Mills, M., Nowakowski, A. J., Sterling, E. J., Tinsman, J., Wiggins, M., Brancalion, P. H. S., Canty, S. W. J., Fritts-Penniman, A., Jagadish, A., Jones, K., Mascia, M. B., Porzecanski, A., Zganjar, C., & Brenes, C. L. M. (2023). Assessing evidence on the impacts of nature-based interventions for climate change mitigation: a systematic map of primary and secondary research from subtropical and tropical terrestrial regions. Environmental Evidence, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-023-00312-3