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Carbon dioxide removed by forests (conventional removal)

How much CO2 forests that people plant, restore or manage took out of the atmosphere each year worldwide, as estimated by three land-use bookkeeping models and their mean for The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal.

Latest value

2,179Mt CO₂/yr

World, 2024. Version The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal, 3rd Edition (2026).

Carbon dioxide removed by forests (conventional removal) (million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year)

80 values from 2005 to 2024. Lines: Mean of the three models, BLUE, LUCE, OSCAR.
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Carbon dioxide removed by forests (conventional removal), every value
PeriodModelValue (Mt CO₂/yr)Status
2005Mean of the three models1,825final
2006Mean of the three models1,918final
2007Mean of the three models1,932final
2008Mean of the three models1,928final
2009Mean of the three models1,953final
2010Mean of the three models2,085final
2011Mean of the three models2,128final
2012Mean of the three models2,117final
2013Mean of the three models2,125final
2014Mean of the three models2,190final
2015Mean of the three models2,198final
2016Mean of the three models2,220final
2017Mean of the three models2,244final
2018Mean of the three models2,224final
2019Mean of the three models2,233final
2020Mean of the three models2,221final
2021Mean of the three models2,212final
2022Mean of the three models2,203final
2023Mean of the three models2,194final
2024Mean of the three models2,179final
2005BLUE2,124final
2006BLUE2,238final
2007BLUE2,232final
2008BLUE2,219final
2009BLUE2,258final
2010BLUE2,509final
2011BLUE2,537final
2012BLUE2,509final
2013BLUE2,516final
2014BLUE2,618final
2015BLUE2,594final
2016BLUE2,631final
2017BLUE2,656final
2018BLUE2,608final
2019BLUE2,616final
2020BLUE2,587final
2021BLUE2,592final
2022BLUE2,577final
2023BLUE2,547final
2024BLUE2,519final
2005LUCE1,516final
2006LUCE1,617final
2007LUCE1,610final
2008LUCE1,607final
2009LUCE1,614final
2010LUCE1,732final
2011LUCE1,781final
2012LUCE1,758final
2013LUCE1,747final
2014LUCE1,808final
2015LUCE1,794final
2016LUCE1,807final
2017LUCE1,824final
2018LUCE1,799final
2019LUCE1,799final
2020LUCE1,787final
2021LUCE1,775final
2022LUCE1,765final
2023LUCE1,748final
2024LUCE1,732final
2005OSCAR1,836final
2006OSCAR1,900final
2007OSCAR1,952final
2008OSCAR1,958final
2009OSCAR1,985final
2010OSCAR2,012final
2011OSCAR2,066final
2012OSCAR2,083final
2013OSCAR2,113final
2014OSCAR2,144final
2015OSCAR2,207final
2016OSCAR2,223final
2017OSCAR2,251final
2018OSCAR2,266final
2019OSCAR2,284final
2020OSCAR2,290final
2021OSCAR2,270final
2022OSCAR2,267final
2023OSCAR2,287final
2024OSCAR2,284final
The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal, 3rd Edition (2026), chapter 7 data (https://www.stateofcdr.org/data-portal/3rd-edition). CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0.

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What was done to it

  1. Read SoCDR-Edition-3-Chapter-7.csv (fetched 2026-10-08, Last-Modified Wed, 27 May 2026 20:08:10 GMT, sha256 250208937d47…), UTF-8 with a byte-order mark.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/action/state_of_cdr.py · code sha256 7b328a5ef6d493cd… · inputs 250208937d47… 1986f453b0f6… 0d2e43e1c7b0…

  2. Kept the world rows of 'Conventional CDR from bookkeeping models by country and year' (afforestation, reforestation and forest management): the bookkeeping models BLUE, LUCE and OSCAR and their mean, as printed.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/action/state_of_cdr.py · code sha256 7b328a5ef6d493cd… · inputs 250208937d47… 1986f453b0f6… 0d2e43e1c7b0…

What it covers

Geography
World
Basis
Conventional CDR from afforestation, reforestation and forest management, from the bookkeeping models BLUE, LUCE and OSCAR and their mean, as compiled for chapter 7.
Unit
million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year (Mt CO₂/yr)