AusSMC BRIEFING: Carbon emissions fall – release of the Global Carbon Budget for 2015*

Embargoed until: Publicly released: 2015-12-08 03:00

Australia; ACT

NEWS BRIEFING – 10:00am AEDT Monday 7 December Online - As the COP21 climate meeting gathers pace in Paris there is some good news on the climate front, new research suggests global carbon emissions are projected to fall in 2015. Yep, that’s right FALL. This drop in emissions is a turnaround from the more than 2% growth seen on average for the previous decade. It also comes at a time when the world is experiencing global economic expansion, unlike the previous emissions drop which coincided with the global financial crisis. So why have they dropped and does it mean we have hit an emissions peak and the world is turning the corner? The Global Carbon Budget, to be released on Tuesday, is an annual report of carbon dioxide emissions, and incorporates data from multiple research institutes from around the world. Join us for this online briefing as the Australian leader of the Global Carbon Project, discusses the latest findings.

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From: Australian Science Media Centre

BRIEFING ALERT: Carbon emission fall – release of the Global Carbon Budget for 2015*

NEWS BRIEFING – 10:00am AEDT Monday 7 December. Online

As the COP21 climate meeting gathers pace in Paris there is some good news on the climate front, new research suggests global carbon emissions are projected to fall in 2015. Yep, that’s right FALL. This drop in emissions is a turnaround from the more than 2% growth seen on average for the previous decade. It also comes at a time when the world is experiencing global economic expansion, unlike the previous emissions drop which coincided with the global financial crisis. So why have they dropped and does it mean we have hit an emissions peak and the world is turning the corner? The Global Carbon Budget, to be released on Tuesday, is an annual report of carbon dioxide emissions, and incorporates data from multiple research institutes from around the world. Join us for this online briefing as the Australian leader of the Global Carbon Project, discusses the latest findings.

*The full data and methods are published in the journal Earth System Science Data Discussions, with associated papers published in the journal Nature Climate Change..

SPEAKERS:

Dr Pep Canadell, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project and author of the Global Carbon Budget

DATE: Monday 7 December
START TIME: 10 am AEDT
DURATION: Approx 45 min

Briefing recording available via link in the table below

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conference: Earth System Science Data Discussions and Nature Climate Change

Organisation/s: Australian Science Media Centre, CSIRO, Global Carbon Project

Funder: This work is a collaborative effort of the Global Carbon Project, part of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program and Future Earth, to provide regular analyses of the main global carbon emissions and sinks (http://www.globalcarbonproject.org). The authors wish to thank the US Carbon Cycle Science Program and Stanford University (R.B.J.), the Australian Climate Change Science Program (J.G.C.), Research Council of Norway projects 236296 and 209701 (R.M.A., J.I.K. and G.P.P.), and the UK Natural Environment Research Council International Opportunities Fund (NE/103002X/1) (C.L.Q.) for their support.

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