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Le Quéré, Corinne 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2319-0452
(2010)
Trends in the land and ocean carbon uptake.
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2 (4).
pp. 219-224.
ISSN 1877-3443
Abstract
Only about 45% of the total CO2 emitted from fossil fuel burning and land use change stayed in the atmosphere on average during the past few decades. The remaining CO2 was taken up by the carbon reservoirs (the ‘CO2 sinks’) in the ocean and on land. The sinks are sensitive to climate and elevated CO2 levels. Their efficiency in removing CO2 emissions from the atmosphere is expected to decrease in the future under increasing atmospheric CO2 because of their response to elevated CO2 levels, warming and other climate changes. Recent evidence from observations and models suggests that the efficiency of the sinks could have already decreased in the past few decades, but the uncertainties are very large. There is an urgent need for reducing these uncertainties by better monitoring the CO2 emissions and sinks, and by improving our understanding of the sinks dynamics.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
| Depositing User: | Rachel Snow |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2011 12:00 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2023 00:47 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/24228 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cosust.2010.06.003 |
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