All values in billion tonnes of carbon per year (GtC/yr), for the globe. For values in billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year (GtCO₂/yr), multiply the numbers below by 3.664.
1 billion tonnes C = 1 petagram of carbon (10^15 gC) = 1 gigatonne C = 3.664 billion tonnes of CO₂
Methods: The GCB estimate is the average of three bookkeeping models (uncertainty of ±0.7 GtC/yr). Individual results from dynamic global vegetation models are also provided.
Cite as: Friedlingstein et al (2020; see summary tab)
Data below represents the net flux of land-use change, based on the net balance between deforestation and forest regrowth along with other land-use changes

Cite individual estimates as:

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