Global fossil carbon emissions rebound near pre-COVID-19 levels

Jackson, R. B., Friedlingstein, P., Le Quéré, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2319-0452, Abernethy, S., Andrew, R. M., Canadell, J. G., Ciais, P., Davis, S. J., Deng, Zhu, Liu, Zhu, Korsbakken, J. I. and Peters, G. P. (2022) Global fossil carbon emissions rebound near pre-COVID-19 levels. Environmental Research Letters, 17 (3). ISSN 1748-9326

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Abstract

Fossil CO2 emissions in 2021 grew an estimated 4.2% (3.5%–4.8%) to 36.2 billion metric tons compared with 2020, pushing global emissions back close to 2019 levels (36.7 Gt CO2).

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Additional Information: Acknowledgments: The data that support the findings of this study are openly available at globalcarbonproject.org. The authors acknowledge support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (RBJ and JGC), the Australian National Environmental Science Programme's Climate Systems Hub (JGC), the European Commission Horizon 2020 projects VERIFY (#776810) (GPP, RMA, and CLQ) 4C (#821003) (PF, GPP, RMA, CLQ), and CoCO2 (#958927) (GPA and RMA), the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Stanford Data Science Scholars program, and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment (SA), and Future Earth. CLQ acknowledges support from the Royal Society (Project No. RP\R1\191063). We thank the many scientists and funding agencies whose efforts and support contributed to the Global Carbon Budget 2021 released by the Global Carbon Project (globalcarbonproject.org). Data availability statement: The data that support the findings of this study are openly available at the following URL/DOI: (https://doi.org/10.18160/gcp-2021).
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: 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
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
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Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2022 13:27
Last Modified: 20 Mar 2023 10:51
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/84270
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac55b6

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