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- We need an annual Earth carbon budget that maps emissions and absorption rates by region. This is similar to the Earth Overshoot Day which calculates the calendar year on which the Earth’s renewable resources have been expended for that year.
- The Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) publishes an annual global carbon report. Below is description of the ICOS.
- The 2025 report can be accessed here: Data supplement to the Global Carbon Budget 2025 | ICOS
- Beware that the ICOS apparently omits “outlier” data in its cumulative 2015-2024 figures, e.g. the African, Canadian, and Bolivian fires of 2023 through 2024.
- Information on other sources of global carbon budgets are requested. Please email us at admin@urbanarktech.org.
ICOS in a nutshell
The level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rises constantly, heating up our planet. Observing the levels of greenhouse gas emissions is essential to predict climate change and mitigate its consequences.
The Integrated Carbon Observation System, ICOS, provides standardised and open data from close to 180 measurement stations across 16 European countries. The stations observe greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere as well as carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, the land surface and the oceans. Thus, ICOS is rooted in three domains: Atmosphere, Ecosystem and Ocean.
The ICOS community consists of more than 500 scientists in both its current Member and Observer countries and beyond. More than 80 renowned universities or institutes are a part of the ICOS community. The ICOS community has strong connections to colleagues and operators outside ICOS. ICOS-based knowledge supports policy- and decision-making to combat climate change and its impacts.
- We would like to map each of the Earth’s tipping points: coral reef loss, polar ice loss, extinction rates (ie biodiversity decline),et al.
- Which communities are immediately impacted?
- What opportunities are there to advocate?
- What are the barriers to action?
- What other technologies can be transformed to protect our planet?
Resources
Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) – The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
Indigenous Lands Among the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks – Yale E360
robbyant/lingbot-map · Hugging Face
Biodiversity – Our World in Data
real time indices of biodiversity loss – Google Search
Find grants for your climate tech start-up – Growth For Impact