🌿 Environment Aug 17, 2026 · Cecilia Keating

Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts

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Emissions from land-use change – including deforestation, loss of peatland and forest degradation – have been falling over the course of the 21st century.



The latest Global Carbon Budget report, formally published in May in the journal Earth System Science Data, notes a “statistically significant decrease” in land-use change emissions since the late 1990s.



The 21st-century decline in land-use emissions has accelerated in recent years, with

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