Research
Cost-effective climate change mitigation through land sector contributions
Nature · By Leon Merfort ·
The Brief
- A Nature Sustainability study reports that land-based mitigation can substantially lower the cost of climate action.
- The study says land-sector contributions can ease energy-sector decarbonization.
- Modelled pathways show that limiting warming to 1.5 °C becomes unattainable under some conditions; the source excerpt is cut off, so the exact conditions are not given here.
Why it matters
If land-sector measures reduce mitigation costs, they could shape how climate and energy planners weigh land use against energy-sector changes.
Who’s affected
- climate researchers
- energy and land-use policymakers
- #climate mitigation
- #land use
- #decarbonization
- #climate modelling
- #mitigation costs
Nature Sustainability, Published online: 11 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41893-026-01977-7 Land-based mitigation can substantially lower the cost of climate action and ease energy sector decarbonization. Modelled pathways show that limiting warming to 1.5 °C becomes unattainable…
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Published online in Nature Sustainability
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Cost-effective climate change mitigation through land sector contributions