Fig. 6.

Comparison of forests and bioenergy crops with carbon capture and storage for carbon storage based on JULES simulations. a, b Change in forest carbon stocks over the 21st century (vegetation, soils and woody product pools) for the 1.5 °C climate scenario with IM1.9 and IM2.6 land use patterns. c, d Recovery time for BECCS. Blues indicate the recovery time is 0 years, and instead shows the mean annual flux of captured carbon via BECCS. e Difference in total carbon stocks (including accumulated storage via BECCS) at 2100 on grid cells where the two scenarios have conflicting land-use change. The convention is: scenario with bioenergy crops minus scenario with forests, such that blues indicate more carbon stored with BECCS and reds indicate more carbon stored with forests. f The percentage of points in e, in which BECCS is more successful at accumulating carbon than forest preservation or reforestation, showing the effect of increasing the default carbon storage from BECCS in JULES. Crosses indicate the benefit of harvesting initial aboveground biomass for BECCS as in IMAGE