California's carbon mitigation efforts may be thwarted by climate change itself

(University of California - Irvine) To meet an ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045, California's policymakers are relying in part on forests and shrublands to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, but researchers at the University of California, Irvine warn that future climate change may limit the ecosystem's ability to perform this service.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 22, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news