Land-based climate change mitigation potentials within the agenda for sustainable development

Frank, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5702-8547, Gusti, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2576-9217, Havlík, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5551-5085, Lauri, P., Di Fulvio, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-6360, Forsell, N., Hasegawa, T., Krisztin, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9241-8628, et al. (2021). Land-based climate change mitigation potentials within the agenda for sustainable development. Environmental Research Letters 16 (2) e024006. 10.1088/1748-9326/abc58a.

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Project: Linking Climate and Development Policies - Leveraging International Networks and Knowledge Sharing (CD-LINKS, H2020 642147), Exploring National and Global Actions to reduce Greenhouse gas Emissions (ENGAGE, H2020 821471), Next generation of AdVanced InteGrated Assessment modelling to support climaTE policy making (NAVIGATE, H2020 821124)

Abstract

Even though enormous expectations for greenhouse gas mitigation in the land use sector exist at the same time worries about potential implications for sustainable development have been raised as many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are closely tied to developments in the sector. Here we assess the implications of achieving selected key SDG indicators for Zero Hunger, Clean Water and Sanitation, Responsible Consumption and Production, and Life on Land on the land-based climate change mitigation potential. We find that protecting highly biodiverse ecosystems has profound impacts on biomass potentials (−30% at >12 US dollar per gigajoule) while other SDGs mainly affect greenhouse gas abatement potentials. Achieving SDGs delivers synergies with greenhouse gas abatement and may even in the absence of additional mitigation policies allow to realize up to 25% of the expected greenhouse gas abatement from land use required to stay on track with the 1.5 °C target until 2050. Future land use mitigation policies should consider and take advantage of these synergies across SDGs.

Item Type: Article
Research Programs: Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) > Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF)
Depositing User: Michaela Rossini
Date Deposited: 19 Jan 2021 16:20
Last Modified: 27 Aug 2021 17:34
URI: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/16999

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