Pierre Friedlingstein

Built World

Presented the 2026 Global Carbon Budget

Global fossil fuel emissions are projected to fall 0.4% in 2026, to 38.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, the Global Carbon Project said on November 10. The group released the estimate at United Nations climate talks in Antalya, Turkey.

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As of May 2026: Director of Exeter's Global Carbon Budget Office

For decades, scientists assumed forests and soils absorbed roughly 30% of humanity's carbon dioxide emissions. A major reassessment published in Nature in January 2026 shows they've been overestimating: the natural land carbon sink is 20% smaller than previously calculated. That's 0.6 billion tonnes of carbon per year staying in the atmosphere instead of being absorbed.

Updated May 27