The growing push for climate mitigation has given rise to a new urgency around land use. Countries making ‘net zero’ pledges make up the vast majority of global greenhouse gas emissions. Additional ‘net zero’ pledges are coming from non-state actors, especially the private sector. These pledges usually rely on land-based carbon dioxide removals which are then used to offset a theoretical equivalent amount of fossil fuel emissions in national greenhouse gas inventories.
This momentum raises serious concerns if the mitigation burden is shifted away from reducing fossil fuel emissions and onto land, local communities and ecosystems.
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