Biodiversity implications of land-intensive carbon dioxide removal

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/112565 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/112565 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/112565 archive 2 disk0/00/02/12/75 2026-02-02 11:28:24 2026-02-18 11:15:51 2026-02-02 11:28:24 article show Prütz R. Rogelj J. 8630 0000-0003-2056-9061 Ganti G. 9855 0000-0001-6638-4076 Price J. Warren R. Forstenhäusler N. Wu Y. 9416 Augustynczik A.L.D. 2314 Wögerer M. 2261 Krisztin T. 2088 0000-0002-9241-8628 Havlík P. 1868 0000-0001-5551-5085 Kraxner F. 7904 Frank S. 1944 0000-0001-5702-8547 Hasegawa T. Doelman J.C. Daioglou V. Humpenöder F. Popp A. Fuss S. Biodiversity implications of land-intensive carbon dioxide removal pub BNR IBF ECE IACC TISS Pathways consistent with global climate objectives typically deploy billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from land-intensive methods such as forestation and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. Such large-scale deployment of land-intensive CDR may have negative consequences for biodiversity. Here we assess scenarios across five integrated assessment models and show that scenarios consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C allocate up to 13% of global areas of high biodiversity importance for land-intensive CDR. These overlaps are distributed unevenly, with higher shares in low- and middle-income countries. Understanding the potential conflicts between climate action and biodiversity conservation is crucial. An illustrative analysis shows that if current biodiversity hotspots were protected from land-use change, over half the land allocated for forestation and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in the assessed scenarios would be unavailable unless synergies between climate and conservation goals are leveraged. Our analysis also indicates CDR-related biodiversity benefits due to avoided warming. 2026-01-30 published doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02557-5 254 3596 3364 3230 3156 167 119 165 94 public Nature Climate Change 16 155-163 TRUE 1758-678X Paris Agreement Overshooting – Reversibility, Climate Impacts and Adaptation Needs (PROVIDE, H2020 101003687) Bridging current knowledge gaps to enable the UPTAKE of carbon dioxide removal methods (UPTAKE, HE 101081521) GeoEngineering and NegatIve Emissions pathways in Europe (GENIE, H2020 951542) Socioeconomic Pathways, Adaptation and Resilience to Changing CLimate in Europe (SPARCCLE, HE 101081369) yes info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/101003687/EU//PROVIDE; info:eu-repo/grantAgreeinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/951542/EU//GENIE; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE/101081521/EU//UPTAKE; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE/101081369/EU//SPARCCLE info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess