Drainage of organic soils and GHG emissions: validation with country data

Conchedda, Giulia; Tubiello, Francesco N.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3113-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3113-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3113-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

Review article

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03 Dec 2020

Review article |

| 03 Dec 2020

Drainage of organic soils and GHG emissions: validation with country data

Giulia Conchedda and Francesco N. Tubiello

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Aug 2020
- AC1: 'Response to first Reviewer (Review article)', Francesco N. Tubiello, 23 Oct 2020
RC2: 'Interactive comment on “Drainage of organic soils and GHG emissions: Validation with country data” by Giulia Conchedda and Francesco N. Tubiello', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Sep 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to second Reviewer (Review article)', Francesco N. Tubiello, 23 Oct 2020
RC3: 'Useful advancement of the already available FAOSTAT estimations', Anonymous Referee #3, 24 Sep 2020
- AC3: 'Reply to the third Referee (Review article)', Francesco N. Tubiello, 23 Oct 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Francesco N. Tubiello on behalf of the Authors (23 Oct 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (26 Oct 2020) by David Carlson

AR by Francesco N. Tubiello on behalf of the Authors (26 Oct 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

This paper describes the FAO methodology used to globally assess areas of drained organic soils and peatlands due to agriculture over the period 1990–2019. We overlay geospatial information of soil type, land cover, agro-climatic zones, livestock distribution and IPCC coefficients, then aggregate it at national level for over 200 countries and territories. Results are compared to inventory data reported to UNFCCC, showing good agreement between the FAO estimates and country data.