Positive side effect of climate change mitigation. An example of the mitigation co-benefits of agroforestry, which sequesters carbon, is the buffering of extreme temperatures, improved soil organic matter and increased economic benefits.
Co-benefit can also be used to mean impacts of an action with a non-mitigation purpose on climate change mitigation, such as water-saving in paddy rice reducing methane emissions. Co-benefits are not always well quantified and can be missed in measurement, verification, and reporting (MRV).