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Figure 1: Global CO2 emissions since 1997 from fossil fuel and cement production (a) and LUC (b).

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This work is a collaborative effort of the Global Carbon Project, a joint project of the Earth System Science Partnership. We also thank the Food and Agriculture Organization Forestry Department for providing the FRA2010 forest cover dataset needed to estimate the land use change emissions.

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Friedlingstein, P., Houghton, R., Marland, G. et al. Update on CO2 emissions. Nature Geosci 3, 811–812 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1022

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