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Framing solutions to climate change as natural strongly influences their acceptability, but what constitutes a ‘natural’ climate solution is selected, not self-evident. We suggest that the current, narrow formulation of natural climate solutions risks constraining what are thought of as desirable policy options.

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Rob Bellamy & Shannon Osaka

  2. Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Rob Bellamy

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Bellamy, R., Osaka, S. Unnatural climate solutions?. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 98–99 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0661-z

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