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Table 2 Social potential distribution of carbon plantations with establishment on abandoned agricultural land only (in Mha).

From: Quantifying the effectiveness of climate change mitigation through forest plantations and carbon sequestration with an integrated land-use model

Baseline

A1b Permanent

  

A1b Harvest

  

B2 Harvest

  
 

2030

2050

2100

2030

2050

2100

2030

2050

2100

River red gum

31

75

317

33

83

332

30

37

158

Rose gum

20

26

230

30

41

256

21

34

108

Radiata pine

2

2

3

2

2

3

2

2

3

Black poplar

16

24

192

23

83

219

31

84

163

Norway spruce

31

48

75

128

164

181

119

203

234

Japanese larch

4

5

14

11

16

22

15

23

29

Global total

105

181

831

228

390

1014

218

383

695

Canada

2.2

6.7

14.8

16.2

27.2

26.4

15.9

36.2

30.2

US

0.9

0.9

2.9

5.0

5.2

5.1

18.4

53.2

69.0

Europe

0.3

0.9

19.5

4.3

12.2

24.7

17.4

36.5

35.4

FSU

13.7

20.5

49.9

48.7

67.1

79.9

80.6

107.1

135.8

China

0.3

14.9

187.5

3.0

60.8

254.7

0.0

25.2

125.2

Latin America

40.0

47.7

102.9

76.3

85.9

133.3

35.5

56.6

63.8

Africa

6.4

43.5

314.6

10.5

61.1

326.1

0.4

1.6

124.8

India

0.4

0.4

54.8

0.6

0.6

56.5

1.2

1.2

27.2

SE-Asia

0.0

0.0

27.6

0.0

0.9

30.4

0.0

0.0

7.2

Oceania

41.0

45.7

53.8

63.5

69.0

74.5

47.7

65.5

71.5