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Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
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
Review article
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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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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.
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