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Full greenhouse gas reporting for each country could facilitate the assessment of progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and better link national greenhouse gas budgets to the observed growth rates of emissions in the atmosphere .
“ In the context of low-warming climate targets , the mitigating or amplifying role of grasslands will depend on a number of aspects . This includes future changes in grass-fed livestock numbers ; the stability of accumulated soil carbon in grasslands ; and whether carbon storage can be further increased over time or if it will saturate , as observed in longterm experiments ,” concludes Philippe Ciais , a study co-author from the Laboratory for Sciences of Climate and Environment ( LSCE ).
Reference
Chang J , Ciais P , Gasser T , Smith P , Herrero M , Havlik P , Obersteiner M , Guenet B , et al . ( 2021 ). Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands . Nature Communications DOI :
10.1038 / s41467- 020-20406-7
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