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28.01.2021 Pongratz, J.
Nature paper on drivers of land use emissions
We estimate country-, process-, greenhousegas- and product-specific land-use emissions 1961-2017. Total emissions have increased to 14.6 GtCO2-eq in 2017 (~25% of anthropogenic GHG emissions). Our results may help prioritize mitigation efforts, but suggest drastic reductions in emissions will require similarly drastic changes in agricultural production and/or practices. The data, including the country-level assessments of land use emissions, are available from this data portal: https://sustsys.ess.uci.edu/CALUE, the paper at Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03138-y