Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0856-3
Title: Economic and social constraints of reforestation for climate mitigation in Southeast Asia
Authors: Yiwen Zeng 
Tasya Vadya Sarira 
L. Roman Carrasco
Kwek Yan Chong 
Daniel A. Friess 
Janice Ser Huay Lee
Pierre Taillardat 
Thomas A. Worthington
Yuchen Zhang 
Lian Pin Koh 
Issue Date: 17-Aug-2020
Publisher: Springer Nature
Citation: Yiwen Zeng, Tasya Vadya Sarira, L. Roman Carrasco, Kwek Yan Chong, Daniel A. Friess, Janice Ser Huay Lee, Pierre Taillardat, Thomas A. Worthington, Yuchen Zhang, Lian Pin Koh (2020-08-17). Economic and social constraints of reforestation for climate mitigation in Southeast Asia. Nature Climate Change 10 : 842–844. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0856-3
Abstract: As climate change continues to threaten human and natural systems, the search for cost-effective and practical mitigation solutions is gaining momentum. Reforestation has recently been identified as a promising nature-based climate solution. Yet there are context-dependent biophysical, financial, land-use and operational constraints to reforestation that demand careful consideration. Here, we show that 121 million ha of presently degraded land in Southeast Asia, a region noted for its significant reforestation potential, are biophysically suitable for reforestation. Reforestation of this land would contribute 3.43?±?1.29?PgCO2e yr?1 to climate mitigation through 2030. However, by taking a combination of on-the-ground financial, land use and operational constraints into account, we find that only a fraction of that mitigation potential may be achievable (0.3–18%). Such constraints are not insurmountable, but they show that careful planning and consideration are needed for effective landscape-scale reforestation.
Source Title: Nature Climate Change
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/218296
ISSN: 17586798
1758678X
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0856-3
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