Land use & forestry (LULUCF)
Land-use change, deforestation, forest growth — can be a sink or a source.
Top 15 emitters in land use & forestry (lulucf) (2022, MtCO2e)
EU EDGAR v8.0
Data from EU EDGAR v8.0 (2024)
Top 20 countries — Land use & forestry (LULUCF) (2022)
| Country | MtCO2e | Share of top 20 |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 446.4 | 32.8% |
| Brazil | 187.6 | 13.8% |
| China | 143.1 | 10.5% |
| India | 141.6 | 10.4% |
| Russia | 99.21 | 7.3% |
| Japan | 44 | 3.2% |
| Iran | 38 | 2.8% |
| Germany | 30 | 2.2% |
| South Korea | 28 | 2.1% |
| Canada | 27.6 | 2.0% |
| Mexico | 26 | 1.9% |
| Australia | 21.6 | 1.6% |
| South Africa | 18.79 | 1.4% |
| Turkey | 18.4 | 1.4% |
| Vietnam | 17.21 | 1.3% |
| Egypt | 15.21 | 1.1% |
| Italy | 14.79 | 1.1% |
| Thailand | 14.79 | 1.1% |
| Poland | 13.6 | 1.0% |
| Pakistan | 13.21 | 1.0% |
Source: EU EDGAR v8.0 (Joint Research Centre, 2024). CC BY 4.0.
Land use & forestry (LULUCF) global emissions trend (2017-2022, MtCO2e)
Sum across top 20 emitting countries
Data from EU EDGAR v8.0 (2024)
Gas mix in land use & forestry (lulucf)
| Gas | MtCO2e |
|---|---|
| Carbon dioxide | 1,152.29 |
| Methane | 280.29 |
| Nitrous oxide | 124.56 |
Why this matters
Land use & forestry (LULUCF) accounts for a structural slice of the global greenhouse-gas footprint. The top 20 emitters in this sector concentrate 1,359 MtCO2e in 2022 — most policy headroom for climate action lives in this same set of countries. Carbon dioxide dominates the gas mix here, which determines the abatement tooling that matters most. Source: EU EDGAR v8.0 (2024), AR6 GWP100 weighting.
Methodology
The land use & forestry (lulucf) sector is one of 8 IPCC-aligned categories tracked across PlainEmissions. Country totals are summed from emissions_records for this sector code at the latest reporting year (2022 EDGAR v8.0). Multi-year reconstruction applies a country-specific growth assumption against the 2022 baseline — full bottom-up time-series will land in 10-load-edgar-full.mjs once the bulk EDGAR extract is staged. See methodology for the full pipeline.
Source: EU EDGAR v8.0 (Joint Research Centre, 2024) — global bottom-up sectoral model, CC BY 4.0 license.
FAQ
Which country emits the most in the land use & forestry (lulucf) sector?
Indonesia leads land use & forestry (lulucf) emissions in 2022 at 446.4 MtCO2e per EU EDGAR v8.0 sectoral breakdown.
What does the land use & forestry (lulucf) sector include?
Land-use change, deforestation, forest growth — can be a sink or a source.
Which gas dominates land use & forestry (lulucf) emissions?
Carbon dioxide dominates the land use & forestry (lulucf) sector with 1,152.29 MtCO2e in 2022, weighted via AR6 GWP100 multipliers.
Disclaimer
PlainEmissions presents greenhouse-gas data for research and journalism. Sectoral assumptions vary across upstream sources (EDGAR vs UNFCCC vs Climate TRACE). Always verify policy-critical figures with the official upstream record. Source notice: data published under CC BY 4.0 from EU EDGAR.
Related from PlainEmissions
- All sectors
- All countries
- Top 15 Emitting Countries (2022)
- Multi-Source Emissions Reconciliation
- Related guide: IPCC Sector Taxonomy
- Methodology
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