Every year Sweden compiles data on the Swedish greenhouse gas emissions, submitted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency states in its National Inventory Report 2013 that the net removal of carbon dioxide had decreased since 1990, especially during the last few years (up to 2011), due to an increased harvest rate and two severe storms in 2005 and 2007 which brought down large quantities of forest. Read more in the report here.
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