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Accounting for carbon removals

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Methods for assessing the carbon footprints of products can favour low- over high-yielding agricultural systems when carbon removals are included.

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Figure 1: Greenhouse-gas emissions and land-use change.

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I thank G. Schroth for fruitful discussions regarding carbon-stock accounting.

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  1. Katharina Plassmann is at the Institute of Agricultural Climate Research, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Bundesallee 50, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany,

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