Da Costa et al. (2024): A comparative analysis of GHG inventories and ecosystems carbon absorption in Brazil
Luis Miguel da Costa, Aaron Davitt, Gabriela Volpato, Gislaine Costa de Mendonça, Alan Rodrigo Panosso, Newton La Scala Jr IN: Science of The Total Environment, 958, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177932
While the overall global increase in emissions is due to fossil fuel operations, Brazil has as its primary emitter from forestry and land use, and agriculture sectors. Though these sectors can emit, both can play an important role in mitigating global warming, due to the natural ecosystem and agroecosystem capability of carbon absorption. The authors aimed to understand the impact of carbon removal on Brazil’s national inventory. For that, they compared two GHG inventories – Climate TRACE and SEEG – and explored how precipitation and photosynthesis impact their estimates to determine how the inventories capture seasonal variability.