Carbon emissions and removals from forests: new estimates, 1990–2020

Tubiello, Francesco N.; Conchedda, Giulia; Wanner, Nathan; Federici, Sandro; Rossi, Simone; Grassi, Giacomo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1681-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1681-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1681-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 4

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26 Apr 2021

Review article |

| 26 Apr 2021

Carbon emissions and removals from forests: new estimates, 1990–2020

Francesco N. Tubiello, Giulia Conchedda, Nathan Wanner, Sandro Federici, Simone Rossi, and Giacomo Grassi

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Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Terminology', Orjan Jonsson, 14 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on SC1', Francesco N. Tubiello, 02 Mar 2021
SC2: 'Emissions/removals', Orjan Jonsson, 14 Oct 2020
SC3: 'UN member states', Orjan Jonsson, 14 Oct 2020
SC4: 'Title of the paper', Orjan Jonsson, 15 Oct 2020
RC1: 'review', Marieke Sandker, 22 Oct 2020
SC5: 'some general comments on the paper', Jenny Wong, 29 Oct 2020
SC6: 'Add. general comments', Jenny Wong, 29 Oct 2020
SC7: 'Comment to lines 254-255', Jenny Wong, 29 Oct 2020
SC8: 'review comments', J. House, 30 Nov 2020
RC2: 'Review Report Submission', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Dec 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 (02 Mar 2021) Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (09 Mar 2021) by David Carlson

AR by Francesco N. Tubiello on behalf of the Authors (16 Mar 2021) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This paper presents the first estimates of forest carbon fluxes (1990–2020) based on the new Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) 2020. We document for the first time in the literature forest carbon fluxes for the last decade 2011–2020. Results show that carbon losses from net forest conversion (3.1 billion tonnes of CO₂) were counterbalanced by carbon gains on forest land (−3.3 billion tonnes of CO₂), resulting in the world's forests acting overall as a small carbon sink in the past decade.