Fig. 2

Adjustments to the Global Earth Observation (EO) forest-flux estimate to increase comparability with other datasets for Brazil. Bars denote the average annual gross emissions/removals and black points and associated text denote the net forest carbon fluxes over the period 2001 to 2020. The left panel shows the impact of adjustments made to the Global EO dataset [17] when considering managed forest/land to align with the definitional approach of other datasets. Non-PF refers to Non-Primary Forest. Right panel shows the other flux datasets, namely the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGHGI) of Brazil [38], SEEG-Brazil [43] and FAOSTAT [9] for Brazil. Note the original time-period for NGHGI was 2002 to 2016, and values have been adjusted to reflect the period 2001 to 2020 (see “Methodology”). Uncertainty measures have been excluded from the figure for clarity due to the high uncertainty associated with all flux datasets (see “Methodology”)