Abstract

Fossil CO2 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 CO2).

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Title
Global fossil carbon emissions rebound near pre-COVID-19 levels
Author
Jackson, R B 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Friedlingstein, P 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; C Le Quéré 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Abernethy, S 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Andrew, R M 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Canadell, J G 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ciais, P 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Davis, S J 7   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Deng, Zhu 8 ; Liu, Zhu 8   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Korsbakken, J I 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Peters, G P 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 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 
 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 
 Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom 
 CICERO Center for International Climate Research , PO Box 1129 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway 
 Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere , Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 
 Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ , Versailles, Versailles, France 
 Department of Earth System Science, University of California at Irvine , Irvine, CA 92697, United States of America 
 Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China 
First page
031001
Publication year
2022
Publication date
Mar 2022
Publisher
IOP Publishing
e-ISSN
17489326
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2640008029
Copyright
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.