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Land Gap Report 2025
November 17 , 2025
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- Current global government climate pledges plan to use approximately 1.01 billion hectares of land for Land-Based Carbon Removal (LBCR).
- LBCR refers to strategies that use terrestrial ecosystems such as forests, soils, wetlands, and agricultural landscapes to absorb and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
- Key LBCR methods include reforestation and afforestation, and the soil carbon sequestration.
- Other methods include bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), geologic carbon sequestration, biochar, and enhanced weathering.
- Large-scale reliance on LBCR could displace food production, threaten biodiversity, and disrupt livelihoods, creating significant social and ecological trade-offs.
- The forest gap shows that about 20 million hectares of forest may be lost or degraded each year by 2030, despite commitments to halt deforestation.
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