Carbon footprints and carbon stocks reveal climate-friendly coffee production

Counting Carbon: The Politics of Carbon Footprints and Climate Governance from the Individual to the Global

Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems

Climatic conditions shift gradually over millennia, altering the rates at which carbon (C) is fixed from the atmosphere and stored in the soil. However, legacy impacts of past climates on current soil C stocks are poorly understood. We used data from more than 5000 terrestrial sites from three global and regional data sets to identify the relative importance of current and past (Last Glacial Ma...

Climate Warming Can Accelerate Carbon Fluxes without Changing Soil Carbon Stocks

1 Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, 2 Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, 3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, 4 Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Serv...

Auctioning Carbon Dioxide Permits : a Business Friendly Climate Policy

When governments decide to reduce greenhouse emissions, they must also create fair and workable programs. Outside the United States, industrialized countries have reached a consensus on the need to take action to slow climate change. Despite President Bush’s retreat from a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide and his Administration’s disavowal of the Kyoto Protocol, even Bush acknowledges...

Predators help protect carbon stocks in blue carbon ecosystems

NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | VOL 5 | DECEMBER 2015 | www.nature.com/natureclimatechange Climate change is an urgent societal issue that can be addressed by a combination of reduced emissions and climate mitigation strategies, including those based on natural carbon (C) stores (that is, biosequestration). The need to reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations combined with global interest in C trading and...