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A recent report by the Nature Conservancy and Next 10 shows that nature based solutions to climate change can be a cost-effective means of reducing carbon emissions and can produce many co-benefits. The authors used ST-Sim software to build an integrated model of landscape change and carbon dynamics for the state of California which allowed them to quantify emissions associated with different land use interventions in forests, farms, and rangelands. The effectiveness of these land use interventions to reduce emissions was evaluated under two different climate scenarios out to 2030, 2050, and 2100.