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Leveraging the potential of nature to meet net zero greenhouse gas emissions in Washington State
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James C. Robertson1  Kristina V. Randrup2  Emily R. Howe1  Michael J. Case1  Phillip S. Levin1 
[1] The Nature Conservancy;The University of Washington;School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, The University of Washington
关键词: Climate change;    Nature-based;    Natural climate solutions;    Mitigation;    Justice;    Equity;    Distribution;    Resiliency;    Adaptation;    Washington;   
DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.11802
学科分类:社会科学、人文和艺术(综合)
来源: Inra
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【 摘 要 】

The State of Washington, USA, has set a goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the year around which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommended we must limit global warming to 1.5 °C above that of pre-industrial times or face catastrophic changes. We employed existing approaches to calculate the potential for a suite of Natural Climate Solution (NCS) pathways to reduce Washington’s net emissions under three implementation scenarios: Limited, Moderate, and Ambitious. We found that NCS could reduce emissions between 4.3 and 8.8 MMT CO2eyr−1 in thirty-one years, accounting for 4% to 9% of the State’s net zero goal. These potential reductions largely rely on changing forest management practices on portions of private and public timber lands. We also mapped the distribution of each pathway’s Ambitious potential emissions reductions by county, revealing spatial clustering of high potential reductions in three regions closely tied to major business sectors: private industrial forestry in southwestern coastal forests, cropland agriculture in the Columbia Basin, and urban and rural development in the Puget Trough. Overall, potential emissions reductions are provided largely by a single pathway, Extended Timber Harvest Rotations, which mostly clusters in southwestern counties. However, mapping distribution of each of the other pathways reveals wider distribution of each pathway’s unique geographic relevance to support fair, just, and efficient deployment. Although the relative potential for a single pathway to contribute to statewide emissions reductions may be small, they could provide co-benefits to people, communities, economies, and nature for adaptation and resiliency across the state.

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