Co‐benefits of and trade‐offs between natural climate solutions and Sustainable Development Goals

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dc.contributor.authorMariani, Gaël
dc.contributor.authorMoullec, Fabien
dc.contributor.authorAtwood, Trisha B.
dc.contributor.authorClarkson, Beverley
dc.contributor.authorConant, Richard T.
dc.contributor.authorCullen-Unsworth, Leanne
dc.contributor.authorGriscom, Bronson
dc.contributor.authorGutt, Julian
dc.contributor.authorHoward, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorKrause-Jensen, Dorte
dc.contributor.authorLeavitt, Sara M.
dc.contributor.authorLee, Shing Yip
dc.contributor.authorLivesley, Stephen J.
dc.contributor.authorMarcreadie, Peter I.
dc.contributor.authorSt-John, Michael
dc.contributor.authorZganjar, Chris
dc.contributor.authorCheung, William W.L.
dc.contributor.authorDuarte, Carlos M.
dc.contributor.authorShin, Yunne-Jai
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Gerald
dc.contributor.authorLouiseau, Nicolas
dc.contributor.authorTroussellier, Marc
dc.contributor.authorMouillot, Davoid
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-23T15:58:26Z
dc.date.available2025-05-23T15:58:26Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractCombating climate change and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are two important challenges facing humanity. Natural climate solutions (NCSs) can contribute to the achievement of these two commitments but can also generate conflicting trade-offs. Here, we reviewed the literature and drew on expert knowledge to assess the co-benefits of and trade-offs between 150 SDG targets and NCSs within 12 selected ecosystems. We demonstrate that terrestrial, coastal, and marine NCSs enable the attainment of different sets of SDG targets, with low redundancy. Implementing NCSs in various ecosystems would therefore maximize achievement of SDG targets but would also induce trade-offs, particularly if best practices are not followed. Reliance on NCSs at large scales will require that these trade-offs be taken into consideration to ensure the simultaneous realization of positive climate outcomes and multiple SDG targets for diverse stakeholders.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipDKJ was supported by EU Horizon 2020 (FutureMARES, contract #869300). BWG was supported by The Walton Foundation; TBA was funded by an Early Career Research Fellowship from the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; YJS and FM acknowledge support from the Biodiversa and Belmont Forum project Scenarios of Marine Biodiversity and Evolution under Exploitation and Climate Change (BiodivScen ERA-Net COFUND program, Agence Nationale de la Recherche contract #ANR-18-EBI4-0003-01) and the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under grant agreement #869300 (FutureMARES); GGS acknowledges support from the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center at the University of Washington EarthLab, and the Ocean Frontier Institute, through an award from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund; PIM acknowledges support from an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP200100575); WWLC acknowledges support from SSHRC Partnership Grant (Solving-FCB).
dc.identifier.citationMariani, G., Moullec, F., Atwood, T. B., Clarkson, B., Conant, R. T., Cullen‐Unsworth, L., Griscom, B., Gutt, J., Howard, J., Krause‐Jensen, D., Leavitt, S. M., Lee, S. Y., Livesley, S. J., Macreadie, P. I., St‐John, M., Zganjar, C., Cheung, W. W., Duarte, C. M., Shin, Y., . . . Mouillot, D. (2024). Co‐benefits of and trade‐offs between natural climate solutions and Sustainable Development Goals. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 22(10). https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2807
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2807
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22305
dc.publisherFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleCo‐benefits of and trade‐offs between natural climate solutions and Sustainable Development Goals
dc.typeArticle

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