دورية أكاديمية
Towards a co‐crediting system for carbon and biodiversity
العنوان: | Towards a co‐crediting system for carbon and biodiversity |
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المؤلفون: | Leho Tedersoo, Jaan Sepping, Alexey S. Morgunov, Martin Kiik, Kristiina Esop, Raul Rosenvald, Kate Hardwick, Elinor Breman, Rachel Purdon, Ben Groom, Frank Venmans, E. Toby Kiers, Alexandre Antonelli |
المصدر: | Plants, People, Planet, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 18-28 (2024) |
بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2024. |
سنة النشر: | 2024 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Environmental sciences LCC:Botany |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | biodiversity banking, biodiversity crediting, carbon crediting, conservation, ecological sustainability, metabarcoding, Environmental sciences, GE1-350, Botany, QK1-989 |
الوصف: | Societal Impact Statement Humankind is facing both climate and biodiversity crises. This article proposes the foundations of a scheme that offers tradable credits for combined aboveground and soil carbon and biodiversity. Multidiversity—as estimated based on high‐throughput molecular identification of soil meiofauna, fungi, bacteria, protists, plants and other organisms shedding DNA into soil, complemented by acoustic and video analyses of aboveground macrobiota—offers a cost‐effective method that captures much of the terrestrial biodiversity. Such a voluntary crediting system would increase the quality of carbon projects and contribute funding for delivering the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Summary Carbon crediting and land offsets for biodiversity protection have been developed to tackle the challenges of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and the loss of global biodiversity. Unfortunately, these two mechanisms are not optimal when considered separately. Focusing solely on carbon capture—the primary goal of most carbon‐focused crediting and offsetting commitments—often results in the establishment of non‐native, fast‐growing monocultures that negatively affect biodiversity and soil‐related ecosystem services. Soil contributes a vast proportion of global biodiversity and contains traces of aboveground organisms. Here, we outline a carbon and biodiversity co‐crediting scheme based on the multi‐kingdom molecular and carbon analyses of soil samples, along with remote sensing estimation of aboveground carbon as well as video and acoustic analyses‐based monitoring of aboveground macroorganisms. Combined, such a co‐crediting scheme could help halt biodiversity loss by incentivising industry and governments to account for biodiversity in carbon sequestration projects more rigorously, explicitly and equitably than they currently do. In most cases, this would help prioritise protection before restoration and help promote more socially and environmentally sustainable land stewardship towards a ‘nature positive’ future. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 2572-2611 |
Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2572-2611 |
DOI: | 10.1002/ppp3.10405 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/f210a52e823c4766a71df1633f1f60e8 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.f210a52e823c4766a71df1633f1f60e8 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 25722611 |
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DOI: | 10.1002/ppp3.10405 |