Global Carbon Budget 2020

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Published: December 11, 2020

Citation: Friedlingstein et al., Global Carbon Budget 2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3269-2020

Data: Global Carbon Project. (2020). Supplemental data of Global Carbon Budget 2020 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Global Carbon Project. https://doi.org/10.18160/gcp-2020

Changelog:

2019 total anthropogenic CO₂ emissions: 11.5 ± 0.9 GtC/year (42.2 ± 3.3 GtCO₂/year).
2019 growth in fossil CO₂ was only about 0.1 % with fossil emissions increasing to 9.9 ± 0.5 GtC/year excluding the cement carbonation sink (9.7 ± 0.5 GtC/year when cement carbonation sink is included)
2019 global atmospheric CO₂ concentration: 409.85 ± 0.1 ppm
inclusion of cement carbonation sink in budget calculations

Global Carbon Budget 2020

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The Global Carbon Budget 2020 is a collaborative effort of the global carbon cycle science community coordinated by the Global Carbon Project.

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Full Citation:

Friedlingstein, P., O'Sullivan, M., Jones, M. W., Andrew, R. M., Hauck, J., Olsen, A., Peters, G. P., Peters, W., Pongratz, J., Sitch, S., Le Quéré, C., Canadell, J. G., Ciais, P., Jackson, R. B., Alin, S., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Arneth, A., Arora, V., Bates, N. R., Becker, M., Benoit-Cattin, A., Bittig, H. C., Bopp, L., Bultan, S., Chandra, N., Chevallier, F., Chini, L. P., Evans, W., Florentie, L., Forster, P. M., Gasser, T., Gehlen, M., Gilfillan, D., Gkritzalis, T., Gregor, L., Gruber, N., Harris, I., Hartung, K., Haverd, V., Houghton, R. A., Ilyina, T., Jain, A. K., Joetzjer, E., Kadono, K., Kato, E., Kitidis, V., Korsbakken, J. I., Landschützer, P., Lefèvre, N., Lenton, A., Lienert, S., Liu, Z., Lombardozzi, D., Marland, G., Metzl, N., Munro, D. R., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Nakaoka, S.-I., Niwa, Y., O'Brien, K., Ono, T., Palmer, P. I., Pierrot, D., Poulter, B., Resplandy, L., Robertson, E., Rödenbeck, C., Schwinger, J., Séférian, R., Skjelvan, I., Smith, A. J. P., Sutton, A. J., Tanhua, T., Tans, P. P., Tian, H., Tilbrook, B., van der Werf, G., Vuichard, N., Walker, A. P., Wanninkhof, R., Watson, A. J., Willis, D., Wiltshire, A. J., Yuan, W., Yue, X., and Zaehle, S.: Global Carbon Budget 2020, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 3269–3340, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3269-2020, 2020.