Global Methane Budget 2024: 2000-2020
The Global Carbon Project (GCP) publishes an up-date of the global methane (CH4) sources and sinks to the atmosphere. This budget shows that global methane emissions have increased by x % (about 50 Million tons) between 2000-2006 and 2020. Anthropogenic emissions appear to be the main contributors to this increase, with equal shares between fossil fuel sector and agriculture and waste sector.
The study was conducted by an international research team and led by the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climate et de l’Environnement (LSCE, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ) in France, under the umbrella of the Global Carbon Project that initiated the work. Two articles are published on xx xx xxxx in the journals Environmental Research Letters and Earth System Science Data.
article doi: 10.5194/essd-2024-xxx
data doi: 10.18160/GCP-CH4-2024 (this page)
Please cite this dataset as: Martinez, A., Saunois, M., Poulter B., Zhen, Z., Raymond, P., Regnier, P. Canadell, J. G., Jackson, R. B., Patra, P. K., Bousquet, P., Ciais, P., Dlugokencky, E.J., Lan, X., Allen, G., Bastviken,D., Beerling, D. J., Belikov, D., Blake, D., Castaldi, S., Crippa, M., Deemer, B.R., Dennison, F., Etiope, G., Gedney, N., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Holgerson, M.A., Hopcroft, P. O. , Hugelius, G., Ito, A., Jain, A. K., Janardanan, R., Johnson, M. S., Kleinen, T, Krummel, P. B., Lauerwald, R., Li, T., Liu, X., McDonald, K. C., Melton, J. R., Mühle, J., Müller, J., Murguia-Flores, F., Niwa, Y., Noce, S., Pan, S., Parker, R. J., Peng, C., Ramonet, M., Riley, W. J., Rocher-Ros, G., Rosentreter, J. A., Sasakawa, M., Segers A. , Smith, S. J., Stanley, E. H.,Thanwerdas, J., Tian, H., Tsuruta, A., Tubiello, F. N., Weber, T. S., van der Werf, G. R., Worthy, D. E. J., Xi, Y., Yoshida Y. , Zhang, W. , Zheng, B. , Zhu, Qing , Zhu, Qiuan, and Zhuang, Q.: Supplemental data of the Global Carbon Project Methane Budget 2024 v1. [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.18160/GCP-CH4-2024
Citation of the accompanying paper: Saunois, M., Martinez, A., Poulter B., Zhen, Z., Raymond, P., Regnier, P. Canadell, J. G., Jackson, R. B., Patra, P. K., Bousquet, P., Ciais, P., Dlugokencky, E.J., Lan, X., Allen, G., Bastviken,D., Beerling, D. J., Belikov, D., Blake, D., Castaldi, S., Crippa, M., Deemer, B.R., Dennison, F., Etiope, G., Gedney, N., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Holgerson, M.A., Hopcroft, P. O. , Hugelius, G., Ito, A., Jain, A. K., Janardanan, R., Johnson, M. S., Kleinen, T, Krummel, P. B., Lauerwald, R., Li, T., Liu, X., McDonald, K. C., Melton, J. R., Mühle, J., Müller, J., Murguia-Flores, F., Niwa, Y., Noce, S., Pan, S., Parker, R. J., Peng, C., Ramonet, M., Riley, W. J., Rocher-Ros, G., Rosentreter, J. A., Sasakawa, M., Segers A. , Smith, S. J., Stanley, E. H.,Thanwerdas, J., Tian, H., Tsuruta, A., Tubiello, F. N., Weber, T. S., van der Werf, G. R., Worthy, D. E. J., Xi, Y., Yoshida Y. , Zhang, W. , Zheng, B. , Zhu, Qing , Zhu, Qiuan, and Zhuang, Q.: Global Methane Budget 2000-2020, submitted to ESSD
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Further information available on http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/methanebudget/.
Previous Budgets
Global Methane Budget 2000-2017
Saunois, M., Stavert, A. R., Poulter, B., Bousquet, P., Canadell, J. G., Jackson, R. B., Raymond, P. A., Dlugokencky, E. J., Houweling, S., Patra, P. K., Ciais, P., Arora, V. K., Bastviken, D., Bergamaschi, P., Blake, D. R., Brailsford, G., Bruhwiler, L., Carlson, K. M., Carrol, M., … Zhuang, Q. (2020). Supplemental data of the Global Carbon Project Methane Budget 2019 (Version 2.0) [Data set]. Global Carbon Project. https://doi.org/10.18160/GCP-CH4-2019
Global methane Budget 2000-2012
Global methane Budget 2000-2012 at CDIAC
References
Global Methane Budget 2000-2017
Marielle Saunois1, Ann R. Stavert2, Ben Poulter3, Philippe Bousquet1, Josep G. Canadell2, Robert B. Jackson4, Peter A. Raymond5, Edward J. Dlugokencky6, Sander Houweling7,8, Prabir K. Patra9,10, Philippe Ciais1, Vivek K. Arora11, David Bastviken12, Peter Bergamaschi13, Donald R. Blake14, Gordon Brailsford15, Lori Bruhwiler6, Kimberly M. Carlson16,17, Mark Carrol3, Simona Castaldi18,19,20, Naveen Chandra9, Cyril Crevoisier21, Patrick M. Crill22, Kristofer Covey23, Charles L. Curry24, Giuseppe Etiope25,26, Christian Frankenberg27,28, Nicola Gedney29, Michaela I. Hegglin30, Lena Höglund-Isaksson31, Gustaf Hugelius32, Misa Ishizawa33, Akihiko Ito33, Greet Janssens-Maenhout13, Katherine M. Jensen34, Fortunat Joos35,Thomas Kleinen36, Paul B. Krummel37, Ray L. Langenfelds37, Goulven G. Laruelle38, Licheng Liu39, Toshinobu Machida33, Shamil Maksyutov33, Kyle C. McDonald34, Joe McNorton40, Paul A. Miller41, Joe R. Melton42, Isamu Morino33, Jurek Müller35, Fabiola Murguia-Flores43, Vaishali Naik44, Yosuke Niwa33,45, Sergio Noce20, Simon O’Doherty46, Robert J. Parker47, Changhui Peng48, Shushi Peng49, Glen P. Peters50, Catherine Prigent51, Ronald Prinn52, Michel Ramonet1, Pierre Regnier38, William J. Riley53, Judith A. Rosentreter54, Arjo Segers55, Isobel J. Simpson14, Hao Shi56, Steven J. Smith57,58, Paul L. Steele37, Brett F. Thornton22, Hanqin Tian56, Yasunori Tohjima33, Francesco N. Tubiello59, Aki Tsuruta60 Nicolas Viovy1, Apostolos Voulgarakis61, Thomas S. Weber62, Michiel van Weele63, Guido R. van der Werf8, Ray F. Weiss64, Doug Worthy65, Debra Wunch66, Yi Yin1,27, Yukio Yoshida33, Wenxin Zhang41, Zhen Zhang67, Yuanghong Zhao1, Bo Zheng1, Qing Zhu53, Qiuan Zhu68, and Qianlai Zhuang39, The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1561–1623, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1561-2020, 2020
Jackson et al. (2020). Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ed2
Global Methane Budget 2000-2012
Marielle Saunois, Philippe Bousquet, Ben Poulter, Anna Peregon, Philippe Ciais, Josep G. Canadell, Edward J. Dlugokencky, Giuseppe Etiope, David Bastviken, Sander Houweling, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Francesco N. Tubiello, Simona Castaldi, Robert B. Jackson, Mihai Alexe, Vivek K. Arora, David J. Beerling, Peter Bergamaschi, Donald R. Blake, Gordon Brailsford, Victor Brovkin, Lori Bruhwiler, Cyril Crevoisier, Patrick Crill, Kristofer Covey, Charles Curry, Christian Frankenberg, Nicola Gedney, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Misa Ishizawa, Akihiko Ito, Fortunat Joos, Heon-Sook Kim, Thomas Kleinen, Paul Krummel, Jean-François Lamarque, Ray Langenfelds, Robin Locatelli, Toshinobu Machida, Shamil Maksyutov, Kyle C. McDonald, Julia Marshall, Joe R. Melton, Isamu Morino, Vaishali Naik, Simon O’Doherty, Frans-Jan W. Parmentier, Prabir K. Patra, Changhui Peng, Shushi Peng, Glen P. Peters, Isabelle Pison, Catherine Prigent, Ronald Prinn, Michel Ramonet, William J. Riley, Makoto Saito, Monia Santini, Ronny Schroeder, Isobel J. Simpson, Renato Spahni, Paul Steele, Atsushi Takizawa, Brett F. Thornton, Hanqin Tian, Yasunori Tohjima, Nicolas Viovy, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Michiel van Weele, Guido van der Werf, Ray Weiss, Christine Wiedinmyer, David J. Wilton, Andy Wiltshire, Doug Worthy, Debra Wunch, Xiyan Xu, Yukio Yoshida, Bowen Zhang, Zhen Zhang, and Qiuan Zhu. 2016. The Global Methane Budget 2000-2012, Earth System Science Data, 8:697-751, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-697-2016. Download
Global Methane Budget 1980-2009
Kirschke S., Bousquet P., Ciais P., Saunois M. , Canadell J.G., Dlugokencky E.J., Bergamaschi P., Bergmann D., Blake D.R., Bruhwiler L., Cameron-Smith P., Castaldi S., Chevallier F., Feng L., Fraser A., Heimann M., Hodson E.L., Houweling S., Josse B., Fraser P.J., Krummel P.B., Lamarque J.F., Langenfelds R.L., Le Quéré C., Naik V., O’Doherty S., Palmer P.I., Pison I., Plummer D., Poulter B., Prinn R.G., Rigby M., Ringeval B., Santini M., Schmidt M., Shindell D.T., Simpson I.J., Spahni R., Steele L.P., Strode S.A., Sudo K., Szopa S., Van derWerf G.R., Voulgarakis A., Van Weele M., Weiss R.F., Williams J.E., and G. Zeng. 2013. Three decades of global methane sources and sinks. Nature Geosciences, 6:813-823, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1955. Download