Comments Off on Forests Don’t Offset as Much CO2 as Countries Claim BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 3, 2021 (ENS) – A giant gap between the amount of greenhouse gases countries report emitting and the amount of these heat-trapping gases independent scientists estimate from global models that the countries actually emit, a scientific team led by researchers of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has found. The main issue is that there appears to be a “conceptual discrepancy between model estimates and country reporting,” the JRC researchers said. As a fix, the JRC scientists are ...