Open science priorities for rigorous nature-based climate solutions

William R L Anderegg; Anna T Trugman; Jonathan Wang; Chao Wu

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001929

Open science priorities for rigorous nature-based climate solutions

PLoS Biol. 2022 Dec 12;20(12):e3001929. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001929. eCollection 2022 Dec.

Authors

William R L Anderegg^{1

2}, Anna T Trugman³, Jonathan Wang^{2

4}, Chao Wu^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
² School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
³ Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, Goleta, California, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America.

Abstract

Nature-based climate solutions (NbCS) hold promise, but must be based on the best available science to be successful. We outline key ingredients of open data and science crucial for robust and scalable nature-based climate solutions efforts, as an urgent call to action for academic researchers, nongovernmental organizations, government agencies, and private companies.

Copyright: © 2022 Anderegg et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Climate Change
Climate*
Government Agencies*

Grants and funding

WRLA acknowledges support from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, US National Science Foundation grants 1714972, 1802880, 2003017, and 2044937, and USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agricultural and Food Research Initiative Competitive Programme, Ecosystem Services and Agro‐Ecosystem Management, grant no. 2018‐67019‐27850. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.