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Carbon emissions and removals from forests: new estimates, 1990–2020
Francesco N. Tubiello
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Statistics Division, FAO, Rome, 00153, Italy
Giulia Conchedda
Statistics Division, FAO, Rome, 00153, Italy
Nathan Wanner
Statistics Division, FAO, Rome, 00153, Italy
Sandro Federici
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, IGES, Hayama,
240-0112, Japan
Simone Rossi
European Commission Joint Research Centre, EC JRC, Ispra, 21027, Italy
Giacomo Grassi
European Commission Joint Research Centre, EC JRC, Ispra, 21027, Italy
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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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