Report: Net-zero targets overestimate natural CO2 storage potential

Countries’ promises of climate neutrality are based on unrealistic amounts of land-based carbon storage. That’s the conclusion of the authors of the first „Land Gap Report„, to be released Thursday. The total land area required for the planned biological storage of carbon, according to reports by UN member states, is just under 1.2 billion hectares, according to the report’s pre-release summary. An area larger than that of the US (983 million hectares) and about the size of the arable land currently in use globally.