2023-06-13 · gigatonnes CO₂ per year (2023)
Fossil fuels still dominate the carbon budget
Annual CO₂ from fossil fuels and industry is tens of gigatonnes. Land and ocean sinks absorb a chunk — but emissions keep rising.
Climate grids hide gigatonnes behind identical squares — the gradient is political once you see the cell count. This grid divides global fossil + land-use CO₂ (2023 snapshot) into colored bands — Fossil fuels + industry and Land-use change — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.04 gigatonnes CO₂ per year (2023) (0.1% of global fossil + land-use CO₂) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2023 figures from OWID — CO₂ emissions put Fossil fuels + industry at 89% of global fossil + land-use CO₂ and Land-use change at 11% — about 42 gigatonnes CO₂ per year (2023) in this edition's rounding.
Global Carbon Project 2023 fossil ~37.4 Gt + land-use ~4.6 Gt ≈ 42 Gt, rounded.
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