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Global carbon dioxide budget from anthropogenic sources 2010-2020

Published by Ian Tiseo, Feb 6, 2023

This statistic displays the carbon dioxide budget caused by anthropogenic activities worldwide from 2010 to 2020. In 2019, the global carbon dioxide emissions due to land-use change was 6.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide.

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions worldwide from 2010 to 2020 (in billion metric tons)*

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Characteristic	Fossil fuels & industry	Land-use change	Atmospheric growth	Ocean sink	Land sink
2020**	34.07	5.86	19.41	-	-
2019	36.44	6.6	19.88	9.62	11.49
2018	36.42	5.69	18.64	9.38	13.84
2017	35.69	5.57	16.77	9.23	14.03
2016	35.22	5.7	22.26	9.83	11.66
2015	35.21	6.25	23	9.56	9.68
2014	35.24	6.04	15.45	9.39	14.05
2013	34.99	5.62	18.95	9.08	13.35
2012	34.76	5.44	18.56	8.94	10.35
2011	34.21	5.06	13.19	8.74	14.93
2010	33.13	5.34	18.91	8.33	12.09

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Details: Worldwide; Global Carbon Project; Expert(s) (Friedlingstein et al. (2020)); 2010 to 2020

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Global Carbon Project; Expert(s) (Friedlingstein et al. (2020))

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Global Carbon Project; Expert(s) (Friedlingstein et al. (2020))

Published by

Global Carbon Project

Source link

icos-cp.eu

Release date

December 2020

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2010 to 2020

Supplementary notes

* Original data have been converted from billion metric tons of carbon to units of carbon dioxide by multiplying by 3.664.
**Projections

The values have been rounded.

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