Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2021

Z Liu, Z Deng, SJ Davis, C Giron, P Ciais - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Following record-level declines in 2020, near-real-time data indicate that global CO2
emissions rebounded by 4.8% in 2021, reaching 34.9 GtCO2. These 2021 emissions …

Remotely sensing potential climate change tip** points across scales

TM Lenton, JF Abrams, A Bartsch, S Bathiany… - nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Potential climate tip** points pose a growing risk for societies, and policy is calling for
improved anticipation of them. Satellite remote sensing can play a unique role in identifying …

Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade

H Yang, P Ciais, F Frappart, X Li, M Brandt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in terrestrial carbon storage under environmental and land-use changes
remain a critical source of uncertainty in regional and global carbon budgets. We generated …

Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires

B Byrne, J Liu, KW Bowman, M Pascolini-Campbell… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The 2023 Canadian forest fires have been extreme in scale and intensity with more than
seven times the average annual area burned compared to the previous four decades. Here …

Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane

DJ Jacob, DJ Varon, DH Cusworth… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We review the capability of current and scheduled satellite observations of atmospheric
methane in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) to quantify methane emissions from the global …

Global patterns of daily CO2 emissions reductions in the first year of COVID-19

Z Liu, Z Deng, B Zhu, P Ciais, SJ Davis, J Tan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Day-to-day changes in CO2 emissions from human activities, in particular fossil-fuel
combustion and cement production, reflect a complex balance of influences from …

A comprehensive dataset for global, regional and national greenhouse gas emissions by sector 1970–2019

JC Minx, WF Lamb, RM Andrew… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
To track progress towards kee** warming well below 2° C, as agreed upon in the Paris
Agreement, comprehensive and reliable information on anthropogenic sources of …

Changes in land use and management led to a decline in Eastern Europe's terrestrial carbon sink

K Winkler, H Yang, R Ganzenmüller, R Fuchs… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Land-based mitigation is essential in reducing net carbon emissions. Yet, the attribution of
carbon fluxes remains highly uncertain, in particular for the forest-rich region of Eastern …

Methane emissions from China: a high-resolution inversion of TROPOMI satellite observations

Z Chen, DJ Jacob, H Nesser… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We quantify methane emissions in China and the contributions from different sectors by
inverse analysis of 2019 TROPOMI satellite observations of atmospheric methane. The …

National CO2 budgets (2015–2020) inferred from atmospheric CO2 observations in support of the Global Stocktake

B Byrne, DF Baker, S Basu, M Bertolacci… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate accounting of emissions and removals of CO 2 is critical for the planning and
verification of emission reduction targets in support of the Paris Agreement. Here, we …