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The author presents a unified approach to proving global existence and exponentially fast asymptotic convergence of the Calabi flow and the Ricci flow on closed, compact Riemann surfaces. The method was prompted by work of \textit{X. Chen} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2001, No. 6, 275--297 (2001; Zbl 1078.53065)]. The proofs are based on integral estimates using the Calabi and Liouville energies. A key ingredient is a compactness-concentration result for conformal metrics on \(M\) with bounded Calabi energy and area. The result for the Calabi flow was first proved by \textit{P. T. Chruściel} [Commun. Math. Phys. 137, No. 2, 289--313 (1991; Zbl 0729.53071)] using monotonicity of the Bondi mass; for Ricci flow, the result was originally proved by \textit{R. Hamilton} [Mathematics and general relativity, Proc. AMS-IMS-SIAM Jt. Summer Res. Conf., Santa Cruz/Calif. 1986, Contemp. Math. 71, 237--262 (1988; Zbl 0663.53031)] and \textit{B. Chow} [J. Differ. Geom. 33, No. 2, 325--334 (1991; Zbl 0734.53033)], using maximum principle arguments, a Li-Yau-Hamilton type Harnack inequality, and monotonicity of entropy.