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carbon opportunity cost: a standalone construct

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Land change science

the carbon that land could store as native vegetation but loses when used for agriculture, used to compare the climate efficiency of land uses.

In land change science, carbon opportunity cost refers to the carbon that land could store as native vegetation but loses when used for agriculture, used to compare the climate efficiency of land uses. This meaning comes from Searchinger (2018) in Nature.[1]

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References

Searchinger, T. D., Wirsenius, S., Beringer, T., & Dumas, P. (2018). Assessing the efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change. Nature, 564(7735), 249-253. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0757-z

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