Background

The natural removal of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere through land conservation, restoration, and management is receiving increasing attention as a scalable approach for climate change mitigation. However, different land-use sectors compete for resources and incentives within and across geopolitical regions, resulting in divergent goals and inefficient prioritization of CO₂ removal efforts. Thus, a unifying framework is needed to accelerate basic research and coordinated interventions to accelerate climate change mitigation.

Scope

We propose a generalizable framework for Enhanced Natural Climate Solutions (NCS +), which we define as activities that can be coordinated to increase carbon drawdown and permanence on land while improving livelihoods and the provision of natural resources in vulnerable communities and ecosystems. The framework builds on interdisciplinary scientific convergence, including critical socioecological interactions, to inform both top-down policy incentives and bottom-up adoption by industries and managers. To achieve this goal, we suggest a multi-tiered approach for the prioritization of projects at local to regional scales that would simultaneously accelerate scientific discovery and broad implementation of CO₂ removal projects.

Conclusions

Our vision leverages input from hundreds of researchers and land managers, including social and environmental scientists as well as representatives from tribal governments, state, and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, as a model system. Five guiding principles orient the framework which would be applicable in any region. As evidence of feasibility, we provide a synthesis of interdisciplinary studies that illustrate how coordinated action, with explicit consideration of system-specific technical and socioecological limitations, can lead to scalable projects with multiple co-benefits. Using theory as a linchpin for innovation, we propose that NCS + could better align climate change mitigation, adaptation, and justice goals at multiple scales.

中文翻译：

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增强自然气候解决方案的通用框架

背景

作为减缓气候变化的可扩展方法，通过土地保护、恢复和管理从大气中自然去除二氧化碳 (CO _{2 ) 正受到越来越多的关注。}然而，不同的土地利用部门在地缘政治区域内和跨地缘政治区域内争夺资源和激励措施，导致目标不同，CO ₂去除工作的优先级低效。因此，需要一个统一的框架来加速基础研究和协调干预，以加速减缓气候变化。

范围

我们为增强型自然气候解决方案 (NCS  + )提出了一个可推广的框架，我们将其定义为可以协调的活动，以增加土地上的碳排放和持久性，同时改善脆弱社区和生态系统的生计和自然资源供应。该框架建立在跨学科科学融合的基础上，包括关键的社会生态互动，为行业和管理者自上而下的政策激励和自下而上的采用提供信息。为实现这一目标，我们建议采用多层次的方法对地方到区域范围内的项目进行优先排序，同时加速 CO ₂去除项目的科学发现和广泛实施。

结论

我们的愿景利用数百名研究人员和土地管理者的意见，包括社会和环境科学家以及来自美国太平洋西北部的部落政府、州和联邦机构的代表，作为一个模型系统。五项指导原则确定了适用于任何地区的框架。作为可行性的证据，我们提供了跨学科研究的综合，说明了协调行动如何在明确考虑特定系统的技术和社会生态限制的情况下，可以导致具有多种共同利益的可扩展项目。我们将理论作为创新的关键，我们建议 NCS + 可以更好地在多个尺度上协调气候变化的减缓、适应和正义目标。