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Land-based emissions

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The Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement measures progress towards a net-zero emissions goal. Now, research provides a way to improve representation of land-based contributions to greenhouse gas emissions and removals to properly assess collective progress.

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Fig. 1: IAMs, DGVMs and NGHGIs estimate human-caused CO2 emissions and removals in land-based systems.

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  1. Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

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  2. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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Ogle, S.M., Kurz, W.A. Land-based emissions. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, 382–383 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01040-7

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