Publications: Natural Climate Solutions

Stanford researchers are investigating the role nature plays in preventing and mitigating climate change. Read on for research briefs, peer-reviewed journal articles and other publications produced by NCS-affiliated faculty and other campus scholars.

Brumberg, Hilary. “Global Analysis of Constraints to Natural Climate Solution Implementation”, PNAS Nexus (June 2025), af173. https://doi.org/https://doi-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf173.
Helmrich, Stefanie, Alexandra Ringsby, and Kate Maher. “Reactive Transport Simulation of Organic and Inorganic Carbon Cycling Following Carbon Dioxide Sorption onto Soil Amendments in Drylands”, Carbon Dioxide Removal. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1505472.
Ringsby, A, and K Maher. “Do Oversimplified Durability Metrics Undervalue Biochar Carbon Dioxide Removal?”, Environmental Research Letters, 20 (February 11, 2025). https://doi.org/https:/doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adac7b.
Hayes, David, Marcelo Barbara, Megan Chen, Ariella du Lac, Zander Galli, Connor Gonzales, Arman Hedayat, Jeremey Jun Ming Rubin, Johanna von der Leyen, and Livia Wyss. “Investing in Nature to Fight Climate Change and Help Communities Thrive”, Stanford Law School Law and Policy Lab. https://law.stanford.edu/publications/investing-in-nature-to-fight-climate-change-and-help-communities-thrive/.
Nolan, Connor, Cecilia Van Paasschen, and Christopher Field. “Additionality, Baselines, and the Proper Accounting for Land-Based Climate Change Mitigation Efforts”, Oxford Open Climate Change, no. 1 (July 17, 2024). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgae012.
Pereira, Cássio, Walisson Kenedy-Siqueira, Daniel Negreiros, Stephannie Fernandes, Milton Barbosa, Fernando Goulart, Simone Athayde, Christopher Wolf, Ian Harrison, Matthew Betts, Jennifer Powers, Rodolfo Dirzo, William Ripple, Philip Fearnside, and Geraldo Fernandes. “Scientists’ Warning: Six Key Points Where Biodiversity Can Improve Climate Change Mitigation”, BioScience, 74, no. 5 (May 23, 2024): 315-18. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae035.
Ringsby, Alexandra, Cynthia Ross, and Kate Maher. “Sorption of Soil Carbon Dioxide by Biochar and Engineered Porous Carbons”, Environmental Science & Technology, 58, no. 19 (April 30, 2024): 8313-25. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c02015.
Lambin, Eric, and Paul Furumo. “Timing Is Everything: Sequencing Policy Interventions to Reduce Deforestation”, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Research Brief. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep37168.
Hemes, Kyle, Benjamin Runkle, Kimberly Novick, Dennis Baldocchi, and Christopher Field. “An Ecosystem-Scale Flux Measurement Strategy to Assess Natural Climate Solutions”, Environmental Science & Technology, 55 (March 4, 2021): 3493-3504. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c06421.
Hartge, Eric, Katie Arkema, James Douglass, Lisa Wedding, Aaron Strong, and Gregg Verutes. “Blue Carbon Sequestration: Benefits for Sub-National Climate Policy”, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Research Brief. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep37150.
Anderegg, William, Anna Trugman, Grayson Badgley, Christa Anderson, Ann Bartuska, Philippe Ciais, Danny Cullenward, Christopher Field, Jeremy Freeman, Scott Goetz, Jeffrey Hicke, Deborah Huntzinger, Robert Jackson, John Nickerson, Stephen Pacala, and James Randerson. “Climate-Driven Risks to the Climate Mitigation Potential of Forests”, Science, 368, no. 6497 (June 19, 2020). https://doi.org/https:/doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz7005.
Yona, Leehi, Benjamin Cashore, and Oswald Schmitz. “Integrating Policy and Ecology Systems to Achieve Path Dependent Climate Solutions”, Environmental Science & Policy, 98 (August 2019): 54-60. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.03.013.
Anderson, Christa, Chris Field, and Pamela Matson. “Natural Climate Solutions and Decarbonization”, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Research Brief. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep37196.
Turner, P, K Mach, D Lobell, S Benson, E Baik, D Sanchez, and C Field. “The Global Overlap of Bioenergy and Carbon Sequestration Potential”, Climatic Change, 148 (April 3, 2018): 1-10. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2189-z.
Anderson, Christa, Chris Field, Perry McCarty, and Katharine Mach. “Forests Contribute to California’s Climate Change Goals”, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Research Brief. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep37180.
Anderson, Christa, Christopher Field, and Katharine Mach. “Forest Offsets Partner Climate-Change Mitigation With Conservation”, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 15, no. 7 (August 14, 2017): 359-65. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1515.