Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Liu, Zhu; Ciais, Philippe; Deng, Zhu; Lei, Ruixue; J. Davis, Steven; Feng, Sha; Zheng, Bo; Cui, Duo; Dou, Xinyu; Zhu, Biqing; Guo, Rui; Ke, Piyu; Sun, Taochun; Lu, Chenxi; He, Pan; Wang, Yuan; Yue, Xu; Wang, Yilong; Lei, Yadong; Zhou, Hao; Cai, Zhaonan; Wu, Yuhui; Guo, Runtao; Han, Tingxuan; Xue, Jinjun; Boucher, Oliviér; Boucher, Eulalie; Chevallier, Frédéric; Tanaka, Katsumasa; Wei, Yi‐Ming; Zhong, Haiwang; Kang, Chongqing; Zhang, Ning; Chen, Bin; Xi, Fengming; Liu, Miaomiao; Bréon, François‐Marie; Lü, Yonglong; Zhang, Qiang; Guan, Dabo; Gong, Peng; M. Kammen, Daniel; He, Kebin; Joachim Schellnhuber, Hans

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18922-7

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Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Published in Nature Communications • Oct 14, 2020

Authors:

Zhu Liu

Philippe Ciais

Zhu Deng

Abstract

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting human activities, and in turn energy use and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. Here we present daily estimates of country-level CO 2 emissions for different sectors based on near-real-time activity data. The key result is an abrupt 8.8% decrease in global ...

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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Environmental science

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