It doesn’t require any esoteric scientific knowledge to see the glaring error in that headline, just clear thinking. Trees and land absorbed a lot of CO2 last year. It’s just that they released almost as much elsewhere due to forest fires and so on.

Also https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/finland-emissions-target-forests-peatlands-sinks-absorbing-carbon-aoe