GHG and Albedo Effects of Natural Climate Solutions from 123 Scientific Articles

A global meta-analysis synthesizing results from 123 scientific articles on the climate effects of sixteen common natural climate solutions in the Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use sector. The dataset, created by Rémi Cardinael and colleagues, codes key results into mitigation benefit and albedo trade-off levels. It was last updated on May 30, 2026, and is associated with an article currently under review.

Use Cases

• Quantifying the risk of overestimating climate benefits based on the synthesized GHG and albedo trade-off levels.
• Comparing the climate effects of different land management practices across various climate zones.
• Informing climate accounting frameworks by assessing the impact of omitting albedo effects.

Strengths

• Synthesizes findings from 123 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
• Explicitly codes outcomes for sixteen distinct natural climate solutions.
• Assesses both greenhouse gas and albedo-driven climate effects.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

CIRAD Harvested Collection, authored by Rémi Cardinael.

Collection Method

Systematic review and coding of key results from scientific literature.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-30 09:10:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, as inferred from the synthesis of international scientific articles.