Fig. 3: Tonne-years of carbon storage are proportional to degree-years of avoided warming.
From: Accounting for the climate benefit of temporary carbon storage in nature
The relationship between total accumulated tonne-years and avoided degree-years of warming is an extension of the proportionality of cumulative CO2 emissions and global temperature change, whereby the slope of the tonne-year : degree-year relationship is equal to the transient climate response to cumulative CO2 emissions (TCRE). All four simulations presented in Figs 1 and 2 follow the same trajectory, as seen by the overlapping symbols in the lower left section of the plot. Source data are provided as a Source data file.
