The findings have implications for our understanding of the role of nature in mitigating climate change, including the potential for nature-based carbon removal projects such as mass tree-planting.
The findings have implications for our understanding of the role of nature in mitigating climate change, including the potential for nature-based carbon removal projects such as mass tree-planting.
The research, carried out by an international team led by Dr Heather Graven at Imperial College London and published today in Science, reveals that existing climate models underestimate the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) that is taken up by vegetation globally each year, while overestimating how long that carbon remains there.
Dr Graven, Reader in Climate Physics in Imperial’s Department of Physics, said: “Plants across the world are actually more productive than we thought they were.”
Read more at: Imperial College London
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