Update on CO2 emissions
- University of Exeter, Devon, England
- Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA
- ORNL
- NOAA, Boulder, CO
- CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
- GCP, Canberra, Australia
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environement, France
- University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Emissions of CO2 are the main contributor to anthropogenic climate change. Here we present updated information on their present and near-future estimates. We calculate that global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning decreased by 1.3% in 2009 owing to the global financial and economic crisis that started in 2008; this is half the decrease anticipated a year ago1. If economic growth proceeds as expected2, emissions are projected to increase by more than 3% in 2010, approaching the high emissions growth rates that were observed from 2000 to 20081, 3, 4. We estimate that recent CO2 emissions from deforestation and other land-use changes (LUCs) have declined compared with the 1990s, primarily because of reduced rates of deforestation in the tropics5 and a smaller contribution owing to forest regrowth elsewhere.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1015075
- Journal Information:
- Nature Geoscience, Vol. 3, Issue 12; ISSN 1752--0894
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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