Global Forest Watch

Forest Carbon Removals

This gross removals layer is part of the forest carbon flux model described in Harris et al. (2021). This paper introduces a geospatial monitoring framework for estimating global forest carbon fluxes which can assist a variety of actors and organizations with tracking greenhouse gas fluxes from forests and in decreasing emissions or increasing removals by forests.

Created

Oct 10, 2024

Last Updated

Oct 10, 2024

Caution:

Data are the product of modeling and thus have an inherent degree of error and uncertainty. Users are strongly encouraged to read and fully comprehend the metadata and other available documentation prior to data use.
Values are applicable to forest areas (canopy cover >30 percent and >5 m height or areas with tree cover gain). See Harris et al. (2021) for further information on the forest definition used in the analysis.
Carbon removals reflect the total removals over the model period of 2001-2023, not an annual time series from which a trend can be derived. Thus, values must be divided by 23 to calculate average annual removals.
Uncertainty is higher in gross removals than emissions, particularly driven by uncertainty in removal factors.
Carbon removals reflect a gross estimate, i.e., carbon emissions from previous or subsequent loss of tree cover are not included. Instead, gross carbon emissions are accounted for in the companion forest carbon emissions layer.
Removals data contain temporal inconsistencies because tree cover gain represents a cumulative total from 2000-2020, rather than annual gains as estimated through 2023.
Forest carbon removals reflect those occurring only within forest ecosystems and do not reflect carbon stock increases in the harvested wood products (HWP) pool.
Large jumps in removals along some boundaries are due to the use of ecozone-specific removal factors. The changes in removals occur at ecozone boundaries, where different removal factors are applied on each side.
This dataset has been updated since its original publication.

Global Forest Watch

Forest Carbon Removals

Forest Carbon Gross Removals - 2001-2023

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