Environmental Research Letters (Jan 2022)
Global fossil carbon emissions rebound near pre-COVID-19 levels
- R B Jackson,
- P Friedlingstein,
- C Le Quéré,
- S Abernethy,
- R M Andrew,
- J G Canadell,
- P Ciais,
- S J Davis,
- Zhu Deng,
- Zhu Liu,
- J I Korsbakken,
- G P Peters
Affiliations
- R B Jackson
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- Department of Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305-2210, United States of America
- P Friedlingstein
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- College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter , Exeter EX4 4QF, United Kingdom; Département de Géosciences, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS-ENS-UPMC-X, Ecole Normale Supérieure , 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
- C Le Quéré
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- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom
- S Abernethy
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- Department of Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305-2210, United States of America
- R M Andrew
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- CICERO Center for International Climate Research , PO Box 1129 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway
- J G Canadell
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- Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere , Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
- P Ciais
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ , Versailles, Versailles, France
- S J Davis
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- Department of Earth System Science, University of California at Irvine , Irvine, CA 92697, United States of America
- Zhu Deng
- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
- Zhu Liu
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
- J I Korsbakken
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- CICERO Center for International Climate Research , PO Box 1129 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway
- G P Peters
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- CICERO Center for International Climate Research , PO Box 1129 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac55b6
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 17,
no. 3
p. 031001
Abstract
Fossil CO _2 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 CO _2 ).
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