The climate is one of the key elements impacting several cycles connected to soil and plant systems, as well as plant production, soil quality, and environmental quality. Due to heightened human activity, the rate of CO2 is rising in the atmosphere....
Climate change requires mitigation actions, mainly preventive, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions; however, carbon sequestration is a complementary measure. Although short-term carbon sequestration can be somewhat effective, it is really interestin...
Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) were established by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in the East African countries of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to test and promote a portfolio of climate-smart agricul...
Understanding how climate policies impact forest carbon sequestration is crucial for optimizing mitigation strategies. This study evaluated forest carbon sequestration in China from 2020 to 2060 under three climate scenarios: SSP1-2.6 (high mitigatio...
Urban green spaces are increasingly recognized for their potential to mitigate climate change by reducing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide (CO2). However, enhancing carbon sequestration efficiency in limited u...
The intensification of climate change and the implementation of territorial spatial planning policies have jointly increased the complexity of future carbon storage changes. However, the impact of territorial spatial planning on carbon storage under...
Algae-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems are increasingly recognized as versatile climate solutions that combine rapid biological uptake with multiple pathways for durable sequestration. Macroalgae and microalgae offer comparative efficiencie...
Background: Phytolith-occluded carbon (PhytOC) is highly stable and constitutes an important long-term carbon pool in agroecosystems, particularly in nutrient-poor, sandy soils. Silicon (Si) uptake by plants is strongly associated with phytolith form...
Global climate change is reshaping Central European conifer forests, affecting growth and ecosystem dynamics. At the same time, tree species differ in their productivity and responses to climatic conditions. Across mid-elevation monocultures of Europ...
Understanding the interplay between climate change, landscape patterns, and carbon sequestration is critical for sustainable ecosystem management. This study investigates the spatiotemporal evolution of vegetation Net Primary Productivity (NPP) and l...
Forest carbon sinks play an important role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The Chinese government has demonstrated its proactive approach to addressing climate change by setting development targets for low-carbon transformation and makin...
The Paris Climate Agreements and Sustainable Development Goals, signed by 197 countries, present agendas and address key issues for implementing multi-scale responses for sustainable development under climate change—an effort that must involve...
Robinia pseudoacacia is a major tree species for soil and water conservation afforestation in the “Three-North” Region, with crucial ecological improvement and carbon sequestration functions. This study aimed to investigate the dynamics o...
Oak species (Quercus spp.) represent one of the most widespread and ecologically important groups of woody plants in the Northern Hemisphere, forming dominant forest ecosystems across temperate, Mediterranean, subtropical, and montane regions. Due to...
Urban trees play a critical role in mitigating climate change by capturing atmospheric CO2 and providing multiple co-benefits, including cooling urban environments, reducing building energy demand, and enhancing citizens’ physical and psycholog...
Geological sequestration of CO2-rich gas as a CO2 capture and storage technique has a lower technical and cost barrier compared to industrial scale-up. In this study, we have proposed CO2 capture and storage via hydrate in geological formation within...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a major component of the global carbon cycle. This study aimed to: (i) monitor five decades’ land use/land cover (LULC) changes in the northern Nile delta using Landsat imagery; (ii) quantify baseline SOC stocks (SO...
The article establishes a measurement and modeling framework to quantify carbon sequestration in pocket forests as part of a multi-year research program. Pocket forests are multi-layered native planting initiatives inspired by the Miyawaki method of...
Plantation forests (PFs) play a crucial role in China’s climate change mitigation strategy due to their significant capacity to sequestrate carbon (C). Understanding the long-term trend in PFs’ C uptake capacity and the key drivers influe...
This review article aims to acknowledge the multifaceted functions of soil, and given its status as the largest terrestrial carbon store, to reaffirm its previously established importance in carbon sequestration. The article outlines the key variable...
Soil carbon sequestration (SCS) is a key priority in the Australian government’s Long-Term Emissions Reduction Plan. Under the government’s Emission Reduction Fund (ERF), farmers are encouraged to change to a management practice that will...
Climate change influences carbon sequestration by forests, either positively or negatively. In the Mediterranean region, this effect is predominantly negative, although it seems to be compensated by the elevation. This study aims to analyse the impac...
Carbon sequestration is suggested as a low-cost option for climate change mitigation, the functioning of which can be threatened by pathogen infestation. This study calculates the effects of infectious pathogens on the cost of achieving the EU’...
Climate change, driven largely by increasing atmospheric CO2 from fossil fuel combustion and soil carbon losses caused by unsustainable land use, threatens agricultural productivity and ecosystem services. Viticulture, developed mostly in Mediterrane...
The land use sector is a crucial pillar in achieving the EU climate goals set for 2050. A significant part of the climate change mitigation potential of the land use sector is inherent to agroforestry. Windbreaks are important agroforestry elements o...
Short-rotation coppice (SRC) Salix plantations have the potential to provide fast-growing biomass feedstock with significant soil and climate mitigation benefits. Salix varieties exhibit significant variation in their physiological traits, growth pat...
Ecosystem services—the benefits humans derive from nature—are foundational to environmental sustainability and economic well-being, with carbon sequestration and storage standing out as critical regulating services in the fight against cl...
The effects of climate change are particularly pronounced in cities, where urban green infrastructure—such as trees, parks, and green spaces—plays a vital role in both climate adaptation and mitigation. This study assesses the carbon sequ...
In the modern era of industrial revolution, urbanization, and deforestation of forest land, carbon (C) sequestration through well-known activities called “land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF)” could establish a win–win si...
Urbanization and global climate change are two important global environmental phenomena in the 21st century. Human activities and climate changes usually increase the uncertainties of the ecosystem functions and structures and can greatly affect regi...
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is an underutilized Pacific tree crop that has been highlighted as having substantial potential to contribute to global food security and climate-smart agriculture, including adaptation to and mitigation of climate cha...
Citrus orchards provide essential ecosystem services and mitigate atmospheric CO2 through carbon sequestration, but increasing abandonment in the Mediterranean, which is expected to intensify in coming decades, threatens ecosystem services, food secu...
Effective implementation of silvopastoralism, a key Nature-Based Solution for Europe’s climate goals, is hindered by a lack of decision-support tools clarifying trade-offs between efficiency and extent of carbon sequestration. To address this,...
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), a drought-tolerant legume, significantly influences carbon and nitrogen cycling in arid and semi-arid regions. This study investigated carbon and nitrogen storage and sequestration dynamics in alfalfa pastureland cultiva...
Agricultural soil has great potential to address climate change issues, particularly the rise in atmospheric CO2 levels. It offers effective remedies, such as increasing soil carbon content while lowering atmospheric carbon levels. The growing intere...
Climatic changes threaten many forms of crop production as well as adversely affecting global ecosystems and human activities. There are two principal ways in which the balance of the global carbon cycle can be restored, firstly by decreasing anthrop...
No-tillage (NT) has been considered an agronomic tool to sequester soil organic carbon (SOC) and match the 4p1000 initiative requirements of conservative soil management. Recently, some doubts have emerged about the NT effect on SOC sequestration, of...
The need to understand the carbon sequestration ability of trees under current and future climatic scenarios is fundamental to predict the role of forest in counterbalancing the global warming. In this study, we investigated the carbon sequestration...
The global carbon cycle has become increasingly unbalanced over the past century as anthropogenic fluxes into the atmosphere far exceed the sequestration capacity of land and ocean systems. Data from 2025 show estimated annual anthropogenic emissions...
Geopark ecosystem function assessments form an essential knowledge base for natural resource conservation and sustainable development. In this study, we evaluated changes in water retention and carbon sequestration in forests in the Huangshan United...
Ongoing climate changes reportedly affect the potential distribution and carbon sequestration potential (CSP) of forest vegetation. The combined effects of increasing temperature and decreasing precipitation on these features of forest vegetation are...
Changes in land use from high-nature-value grasslands to arable fields reduce the organic carbon stock in soil, increasing atmospheric carbon concentrations. Maintaining grasslands through traditional agricultural techniques can mitigate climate chan...
As an essential part of terrestrial ecosystems, convenient and accurate reconstruction of the past carbon sequestration capacity of forests is critical to assess future trends of aboveground carbon storage and ecosystem carbon cycles. In addition, th...
The US rejoined the Paris Agreement in 2021 with a targeted 50–52% reduction in net GHG emissions in 2030 relative to 2005. Within the US’s nationally determined contributions, several land-based mitigation options were submitted, targeti...
Plantation species globally are susceptible to a range of defoliating pests, but pest damage is rarely considered when estimating biomass C sequestered by these forests. We examined the impacts of defoliation on Eucalyptus globulus plantation C stock...
Understanding the impacts of land use and vegetation carbon sequestration under varying climate scenarios is essential for optimizing regional ecosystem services and shaping sustainable socioeconomic policies. This study presents a novel research fra...
Climate change, driven by rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as CO2, poses the most pressing environmental challenges today. Soil carbon (C) sequestration emerges as a crucial strategy to mitigate this issue by capturin...
One approach to increasing the climate-regulating potential of the agricultural sector is carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. This involves storing atmospheric carbon dioxide in the soil in the form of soil organic carbon (SOC) through agricu...
Agroforestry systems are recognized as sustainable land use practices that foster environmental health and promote adaptive responses to global change. By harnessing the synergies between trees and agricultural activities, agroforestry systems provid...
Climate change mitigation relies heavily on understanding carbon storage dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems. This study examines the relationship between carbon storage (kg/m2) and various climatic variables, including precipitation, temperature, hum...
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