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The Global Carbon Project's fossil CO2 emissions dataset

2025/10/22 by Robbie M. Andrew, Glen P. Peters · 1 voice
Environmental Science · #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

paper · doi:10.5281/zenodo.5569234

openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex publication_date 2025/10/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01

Abstract

The Global Carbon Project (GCP) has been publishing estimates of global and national fossil CO2 emissions since 2001. In the first instance these were simple re-publications of data from another source, but over subsequent years refinements have been made in response to feedback and identification of inaccuracies. In this article (PDF document) we describe the history of this process leading up to the methodology used in the 2025 release of the GCP's fossil CO2 dataset. The fossil CO2 emissions dataset is included in both its standard, absolute form, and per capita, with associated metadata files in JSON format. A file indicating the source(s) of each data point is also provided. This is the initial release of the 2025 dataset.

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