Another bump upward in annual carbon emissions as new heat records set

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels at today’s level, it has six years before passing 1.5C above pre-industrial levels — the limit agreed to at 2015 climate talks

This year the world is on track to put 41.2 billion tons of the main heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.

Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year.

This year the world is on track to put 41.2 billion tons of the main heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.