Mengyang Xu

Nov 8, 2024 | nature.com | Chao Yue |Mengyang Xu |Philippe Ciais |Shu Tao |Huizhong Shen |Jinfeng Chang | +6 more

AbstractUnleashing the land sector’s potential for climate mitigation requires purpose-driven changes in land management. However, contributions of past management changes to the current global and regional carbon cycles remain unclear. Here, we use vegetation modelling to reveal how a portfolio of ecological restoration policies has impacted China’s terrestrial carbon balance through developing counterfactual ‘no-policy’ scenarios.

Oct 30, 2024 | nature.com | Chao Yue |Binbin He |Philippe Ciais |Stephen Sitch |Rui Chen |Xingwen Quan | +2 more

AbstractThe Paris Agreement mandates that signatory countries enhance the transparency of their national greenhouse gas inventories. China’s inventories have reported substantial forest carbon gains using ground-based forest plot measurements, but independent satellite-based support for such inventories is lacking and the contributions from human management and anthropogenic environmental changes (atmospheric CO2 growth, climate change and nitrogen deposition) are unknown.