Global Carbon Budget 2018

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Published: December 5, 2018

Citation: Le Quéré et al., Global Carbon Budget 2018. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2141-2018

Data: Global Carbon Project. (2018). Supplemental data of Global Carbon Budget 2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Global Carbon Project. https://doi.org/10.18160/gcp-2018

Changelog:
  • 2017 growth in fossil CO₂ emissions was about 1.6%, an increase to 9.9 ± 0.5 GtC/year
  • 2017 global atmospheric CO₂ concentration: 405.0 ± 0.1 ppm
Global Carbon Budget 2018
Preview of Global Carbon Budget journal article
ICOS Archive
Preview of ICOS website
2018 Global Budget
2018 National Fossil Carbon Emissions
The Global Carbon Budget 2018 is a collaborative effort of the global carbon cycle science community coordinated by the Global Carbon Project.

From the Summary sheet of the original Excel file:

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See also:

Figueres, C., C. Le Quéré, A. Mahindra, O. Baete, G. Whiteman, G. P. Peters, D. Guan (2018). Emissions are still rising: ramp up the cuts. Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07585-6

Jackson, R.B., C. Le Quéré, R. M. Andrew, J.G. Canadell, J.I. Korsbakken, Z. Liu, G.P. Peters, and B. Zheng (2018). Global Energy Growth Is Outpacing Decarbonization, Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/af303

Further information is available on: http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget

Full Citation:

Le Quéré, C., Andrew, R. M., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Hauck, J., Pongratz, J., Pickers, P. A., Korsbakken, J. I., Peters, G. P., Canadell, J. G., Arneth, A., Arora, V. K., Barbero, L., Bastos, A., Bopp, L., Chevallier, F., Chini, L. P., Ciais, P., Doney, S. C., Gkritzalis, T., Goll, D. S., Harris, I., Haverd, V., Hoffman, F. M., Hoppema, M., Houghton, R. A., Hurtt, G., Ilyina, T., Jain, A. K., Johannessen, T., Jones, C. D., Kato, E., Keeling, R. F., Goldewijk, K. K., Landschützer, P., Lefèvre, N., Lienert, S., Liu, Z., Lombardozzi, D., Metzl, N., Munro, D. R., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Nakaoka, S., Neill, C., Olsen, A., Ono, T., Patra, P., Peregon, A., Peters, W., Peylin, P., Pfeil, B., Pierrot, D., Poulter, B., Rehder, G., Resplandy, L., Robertson, E., Rocher, M., Rödenbeck, C., Schuster, U., Schwinger, J., Séférian, R., Skjelvan, I., Steinhoff, T., Sutton, A., Tans, P. P., Tian, H., Tilbrook, B., Tubiello, F. N., van der Laan-Luijkx, I. T., van der Werf, G. R., Viovy, N., Walker, A. P., Wiltshire, A. J., Wright, R., Zaehle, S., and Zheng, B.: Global Carbon Budget 2018, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 2141–2194, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2141-2018, 2018.