A project led by
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GLOBAL CARBON
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designed by
Laboratoire
des sciences du climat
et de l’environnement
CARBONATLAS.ORG
a platform to explore and visualize
the most up-to-date data on carbon fluxes
EMISSIONS
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Take a journey through the history and future of human
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WHERE DO CARBON EMISSIONS COME FROM?
REGIONAL EMISSIONS
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EMISSIONS SOURCES
TODAY’S CHOICE, TOMORROW’S IMPACTS
OCEAN
LAND
+ 3.2°C to + 5.4°C
ATMOSPHERE
5.9°F – 9.7°F
We keep on relying on fossil fuels
as the primary source of energy
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We live in an energy-intensive world based on the use
of ever more expensive and scarce fossil fuels.
There is large transformation and damage to the natural
environment and to the human enterprise.
The cost of adaptation far exceeds the cost of climate
mitigation.
Sea level rises
Heat waves increase
very significantly
Permafrost
shrinking
+ 2.0°C to + 3.7°C
800 PPM
3.6°F – 6.7°F
Slow but existing policy development
A range of technologies and strategies for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions are adopted : CO² emissions
begin to decrease after 2100. The pace of mitigation
is too slow to prevent very large changes in the natural
and human environments across the globe.
Coral reef subject
to long-term degradation
Significant negative
impact on crop yields
Existing rainfall patterns will
intensify at the regional level
700 PPM
+ 1.7°C to + 3.2°C
3.1°F – 5.8°F
Big leaps towards a green economy
The nations have loosened their dependence on fossil
fuels. Climate policies now also value natural vegetation for
their carbon stores. But by 2100, global mean temperature
will rise beyond 2°C with large consequences for natural
and human environments.
Arctic sea ice could
disappear in summer
Major species
extinction
Extreme precipitation
events are more intense
and frequent
600 PPM
+ 0.9°C to + 2.3°C
1.6°F – 4.1°F
A fully decarbonized world
By 2020, carbon emissions peak and then begin to rapidly
fall, with emission reductions of about 50% by 2050.
Society becomes fully decarbonized by the end of
this century with the possible need for technologies
that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Vegetation losing
efficiency in removing CO²
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2015
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CO2 CONCENTRATION
IN THE ATMOSPHERE
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