Translations:Information Booklet/157/en
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Restoring ecosystems increases the capacity of forests, the ocean and soil to absorb carbon dioxide. Today, nature is only able to absorb around half of CO2 emissions, more or less equally split between land-based ecosystems and the ocean, with the remainder staying in the atmosphere and causing the Earth to warm[1].
- ↑ UNEP 2021, Making Peace with Nature, Executive Summary section B, Sections 2.3.2 in main report, and figure 2.8