"The word for this, if we are being honest, is ‘geo-engineering.’ It’s a very gentle, low-tech kind of geo-engineering, with relatively little chance of major negative side-effects if we get it wrong. We are definitely still on the learner slopes. The interventions in natural systems will get much bigger, and the penalties for mistakes much more costly, as time goes on."

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Kravitz, Ben; Robock, Alan (2017): Vetting New Models of Climate Responses to Geoengineering. In Eos. DOI: 10.1029/2017EO089383.

"The Seventh Meeting of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project; Newry, Maine, 26 July 2017"

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Erb, Karl-Heinz; Kastner, Thomas; Plutzar, Christoph; Bais, Anna Liza S.; Carvalhais, Nuno; Fetzel, Tamara et al. (2017): Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass. In Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature25138.

"Therefore, avoiding deforestation is necessary but not sufficient for mitigation of climate change. Our results imply that trade-offs exist between conserving carbon stocks on managed land and raising the contribution of biomass to raw material and energy supply for the mitigation of climate change. Efforts to raise biomass stocks are currently verifiable only in temperate forests, where their potential is limited. By contrast, large uncertainties hinder verification in the tropical forest, where the largest potential is located, pointing to challenges for the upcoming stocktaking exercises under the Paris agreement."

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"Soil stewards can impact a changing climate by rebuilding soil to sequester carbon from the atmosphere."

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