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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02567-3

A spatial assessment of global decarbonization scenarios reveals that land allocated for carbon dioxide removal substantially overlaps with areas of high biodiversity importance. The implications of such overlap depend on location and mode of implementation and demonstrate that careful assessment will be required when implementing decarbonization pathways to safeguard biodiversity.
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Biodiversity implications of land-intensive carbon dioxide removal

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 30 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02557-5

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) plays an important role in decarbonization pathways to meet climate goals, but some methods are land-intensive. Multimodel analysis reveals conflicts between biodiversity and CDR that are distributed unevenly, and shows that synergies are crucial to meet climate and conservation goals.
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Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01993-5

Meeting the Paris Agreement targets requires deep emissions reductions supported by a scale-up in carbon dioxide removal. However, current country-reported mitigation pledges are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs, unless countries dramatically reduce emissions consistent with low-energy-demand scenarios.
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Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01719-z

Atmospheric observations can quantify anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, but variability in net land carbon exchange delays the detection of changes. Now, research improves understanding of this variability and allows earlier detection of emissions changes.
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