India, Nov. 12 -- Land-based climate solutions are essential to achieving global warming targets, but they pose challenges for food production and ecosystems.

Researchers suggest integrating bioenergy with forest protection and agricultural emission reductions to minimise land pressure.

Without such measures, the economic cost of climate action and competition for land could escalate, especially in developing nations.

The world may find it significantly more expensive to limit global warming if it relies almost entirely on cutting emissions from the energy sector while neglecting the role of agriculture, forests and other land-based measures. In fact, without contributions from the land sector, limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Ce...