Carbon inventories: New opportunities and challenges for agriculture and forestry

Carbon balance (carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions) in natural and agroecosystems is a pivotal theme in important initiatives focused on reducing anthropogenic impacts on the environment (e.g., Paris Agreement, REDD+, initiative “4 per 1000″, Sustainable Development Goals). However, taking carbon balance of global progress towards achieving such initiatives requires consistently measuring aggregate national actions (Gidden et al., 2023). In this special issue (SI) entitled “Carbon inventories: new opportunities and challenges for agriculture and forestry”, we sought high quality manuscripts that encompass major scientific challenges and advances aiming to achieve feasible and accurate carbon inventories improvements in agriculture and forestry...