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Global carbon emissions and decarbonization in 2024: Climate chronicles

Deng, Z; Zhu, B; Davis, SJ; Ciais, P; Guan, D; Gong, P; Liu, Z; (2025) Global carbon emissions and decarbonization in 2024: Climate chronicles. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment , 6 (4) pp. 231-233. 10.1038/s43017-025-00658-x. Green open access

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Abstract

Global emissions averaged 99.3 Mt CO2 per day, with the largest growth coming from India and Russia, and a slight reduction from China. Global non-fossil energy development grew 6.2%, corresponding to an estimated 9.8 Gt CO2 of Scope 4 (that is, avoided) emissions in 2024. 0–205 Gt CO2 remains of the carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5 °C, suggesting permissible emissions have already been exceeded or could be depleted within 5.1 years; 860–955 Gt CO2 remains of the 2 °C budget, which could be depleted within 21.3–23.7 years (at 67% likelihood).

Type: Article
Title: Global carbon emissions and decarbonization in 2024: Climate chronicles
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s43017-025-00658-x
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00658-x
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10208920
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