Commodity-driven deforestation, associated carbon emissions and trade 2001-2022

This dataset contains estimates of commodity-driven deforestation and associated carbon emissions for the period 2001-2022, estimated by the Deforestation Driver and Carbon Emission (DeDuCE) model (Singh & Persson 2024), which combines remote sensing data on forest loss and land-use with agricultural statistics to identify and attribute deforestation across the world to expansion of cropland, pastures and forest plantation, and the commodities produced on this land. This also contains data on deforestation embodied in the production, exports, imports, and consumption of agricultural and forestry commodities by country, year, and commodity for the time period 2005-2022 derived using physical and monetary trade models. The data is an update of the results presented in Pendrill et al. (2022) and the differences between the two datasets are detailed in the explainer available here.