PIK PR: Little potential for 'climate plantations' within planetary boundaries

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PIK PR: Little potential for 'climate plantations' within planetary boundaries

Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and limit global heating to 1.5 degrees in the long term. But if this is done on land beyond existing agriculture, it endangers the stability of the biosphere. A study puts a figure on the potential of such novel 'climate plantations', also known as bioenergy with carbon capture and…