JRC Global Proxy Maps of Managed and Unmanaged Forest

The dataset provides maps of Managed and Unmanaged Forests at a global scale, with spatial resolutions of 5 km and 50 km. These maps serve as a proxy for countries' managed and non-managed forest areas, produced to support comparability between independent estimates and national Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reporting under the UNFCCC. The methodology uses country maps of managed forests where available, but also makes assumptions where official data is not present, employing independent datasets that may not be fully consistent with national forest definitions when no other options are available. Here, we present the version 1.0 (2024) of the “Global JRC Proxy Maps of Managed and Non-Managed Forests,” which is used to “translate” Bookkeeping Model results into national inventory definitions in the Global Carbon Budget 2024 (Friedlingstein et al., 2024). Country-level results of this translation are available through the Global Land Use Carbon Fluxes Data Hub: https://forest-observatory.ec.europa.eu/carbon/fluxes. This dataset will be updated as better information becomes available.