Spatial Database of Planted Trees (SDPT Version 2.0)

This technical paper describes the methodology and updates for Version 2.0 of the Spatial Database of Planted Trees (SDPT), which aims to distinguish planted forests and tree crops from natural and seminatural forests globally to improve timber legality screening and carbon sequestration mapping.

• The SDPT v2.0 identifies that in 2020, planted forests covered approximately 264 million hectares globally, representing 6.5 percent of total tree cover, with an additional 65 million hectares categorized as tree crops.
• The planted forest area recorded in SDPT v2.0 accounts for 90 percent of the total global planted forest area for 2020 as reported by the FAO.
• The document provides updated carbon removal factors, with planted forests ranging from 0.43 to 15 metric tonnes of aboveground carbon per hectare per year (t C/ha/yr) and tree crops ranging from 0.43 to 11 t C/ha/yr.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Spatial Database of Planted Trees (SDPT Version 2.0). https://www.wri.org/research/spatial-database-planted-trees-sdpt-version-2

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Spatial Database of Planted Trees (SDPT Version 2.0). n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/spatial-database-planted-trees-sdpt-version-2.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendspatial, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Spatial Database of Planted Trees (SDPT Version 2.0)}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/spatial-database-planted-trees-sdpt-version-2}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }