Vegetation greenness has been increasing globally since at least 1981, when satellite
technology enabled large-scale vegetation monitoring. The greening phenomenon, together …

Tropical woody plants store∼ 230 petagrams of carbon (PgC) in their aboveground living
biomass. This review suggests that these stocks are currently growing in primary forests at …

Carbon budget accounting relies heavily on Food and Agriculture Organization land-use
data reported by governments. Here we develop a new land-use and cover-change …

Although the existence of a large carbon sink in terrestrial ecosystems is well-established,
the drivers of this sink remain uncertain. It has been suggested that perturbations to forest …

Accurate accounting of emissions and removals of CO 2 is critical for the planning and
verification of emission reduction targets in support of the Paris Agreement. Here, we …

The total emission mitigation potential achievable by the year 2030, calculated based on
sectoral assessments, is sufficient to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to half of the …

The observed global net land carbon sink is captured by current land models. All models
agree that atmospheric CO2 and nitrogen deposition driven gains in carbon stocks are …

Harnessing nature-based climate solutions (NbCS) to help simultaneously achieve climate
and conservation goals is an attractive win-win. The contribution of NbCS to climate action …

Global and regional sources and sinks of carbon across the earth's surface have been
studied extensively using atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) observations and atmospheric …

Northern forests are an important carbon sink, but our understanding of the driving factors is
limited due to discrepancies between dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) and …