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

Fossil fuel and cement production emissions by fuel type

All values in million tonnes of carbon per year (MtC/yr), except the per capita emissions which are in tonnes of carbon per person per year (tC/person/yr). For values in million tonnes of CO2 per year, multiply the values below by 3.664
1MtC = 1 million tonne of carbon = 3.664 million tonnes of CO2
Methods:
1959-2014 estimates for fossil fuel combustion and cement are from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, adjusted with revised China statistics from 1990. http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/meth_reg.html
2015-2017 estimates are preliminary and are based on energy statistics published by BP (data in red in Columns B, C, D, E and H). https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/en/corporate/pdf/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-15stats-review-2018-full-report.pdf
Cement emissions are updated from Andrews (2018) https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/10/195/2018/
and flaring is assumed to be constant since 2014 value (data in green in Column G).
The uncertainty for the global estimates is about ±5 % for a ± 1 sigma confidence level.
Cite as: Le Quéré et al (2018b; see summary tab) and Boden, T. A., Marland, G., and Andres, R. J.: Global, Regional, and National Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A., doi 10.3334/CDIAC/00001_V2017, 2017; available at: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/emis/overview_2014.html

Total

1960
1980
2000
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
MtC

Coal

1960
1980
2000
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
MtC

Oil

1960
1980
2000
0
1000
2000
3000
MtC

Gas

1960
1980
2000
0
500
1000
1500
MtC

Cement

1960
1980
2000
0
100
200
300
400
MtC

Flaring

1960
1980
2000
0
20
40
60
80
100
MtC

Per Capita

1960
1980
2000
0
0.5
1
tC/person

Unit MtC/year, tC/person/year

YearTotalCoalOilGasCementFlaringPer Capita
19592453.37791382.0000789.0000206.000039.377936.00000.8239
19602568.37601410.0000849.0000227.000042.376039.00000.8468
19612579.72371349.0000904.0000240.000044.723742.00000.8348
19622685.09881351.0000980.0000263.000048.098844.00000.8526
19632832.71511396.00001052.0000286.000050.715147.00000.8824
19642993.81141435.00001137.0000316.000055.811451.00000.9145
19653129.40781460.00001219.0000337.000058.407855.00000.9371
19663287.54251478.00001323.0000364.000062.542560.00000.9646
19673392.74271448.00001423.0000392.000064.742766.00000.9752
19683565.35201448.00001551.0000424.000069.352073.00001.0038
19693779.04681486.00001673.0000467.000073.046880.00001.0422
19704051.80541556.00001839.0000493.000076.805487.00001.0949
19714205.70891559.00001947.0000530.000081.708988.00001.1139
19724373.35991576.00002057.0000560.000086.359995.00001.1355
19734610.63361581.00002241.0000588.000091.6336110.00001.1739
19744618.88071579.00002245.0000597.000091.8807107.00001.1537
19754592.15091673.00002132.0000604.000091.150992.00001.1258
19764858.34401710.00002314.0000630.000097.3440108.00001.1695
19775009.67231756.00002398.0000650.0000101.6723104.00001.1845
19785065.96581780.00002392.0000680.0000107.9658106.00001.1769
19795347.76991875.00002544.0000721.0000109.769998.00001.2208
19805291.51051935.00002422.0000737.0000110.510586.00001.1869
19815127.48981908.00002289.0000755.0000110.489865.00001.1299
19825082.99011976.00002196.0000738.0000109.990164.00001.1005
19835062.62231977.00002176.0000739.0000112.622358.00001.0768
19845244.77792074.00002199.0000807.0000114.777951.00001.0957
19855401.91642216.00002186.0000835.0000115.916449.00001.1084
19865566.58012277.00002293.0000830.0000120.580146.00001.1215
19875707.53642339.00002306.0000892.0000125.536444.00001.1289
19885917.33332387.00002412.0000935.0000133.333350.00001.1493
19896046.48902428.00002459.0000982.0000136.489041.00001.1537
19906053.98672359.00002492.00001026.0000136.986740.00001.1356
19916121.55502284.00002601.00001051.0000140.555045.00001.1297
19926057.61602290.00002499.00001085.0000146.616036.00001.1005
19936046.16352225.00002515.00001117.0000152.163537.00001.0820
19946150.06362278.00002539.00001133.0000162.063639.00001.0846
19956279.31922359.00002560.00001151.0000171.319239.00001.0918
19966420.02702382.00002626.00001198.0000175.027040.00001.1009
19976527.10962409.00002701.00001197.0000180.109640.00001.1043
19986546.12012343.00002763.00001224.0000179.120136.00001.0931
19996531.26682310.00002741.00001258.0000187.266835.00001.0765
20006702.69952327.00002845.00001289.0000195.699546.00001.0908
20016860.80782445.00002848.00001316.0000204.807847.00001.1024
20026958.02142518.00002832.00001342.0000216.021449.00001.1041
20037332.62512695.00002958.00001397.0000232.625148.00001.1491
20047693.12202906.00003043.00001443.0000248.122054.00001.1906
20057984.41773108.00003068.00001485.0000262.417760.00001.2205
20068266.05803293.00003091.00001534.0000286.058062.00001.2479
20078427.98733422.00003071.00001562.0000306.987366.00001.2567
20088699.71503587.00003103.00001630.0000311.715069.00001.2813
20098603.47793590.00003042.00001584.0000321.477966.00001.2516
20109024.74113812.00003107.00001696.0000342.741167.00001.2970
20119377.01034055.00003134.00001756.0000368.010364.00001.3314
20129530.37364106.00003200.00001783.0000376.373665.00001.3370
20139609.13924126.00003220.00001806.0000390.139268.00001.3321
20149690.45504117.00003280.00001823.0000403.455068.00001.3277
20159678.69734013.42693340.53651863.4989393.234968.00001.3109
20169736.65383950.58473401.41301917.1345399.521668.00001.3040
20179867.15663977.70673449.57081968.7419403.137268.00001.3069