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Adrian Gustafson

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Regional trends and drivers of the global methane budget

Författare

  • Ann R. Stavert
  • Marielle Saunois
  • Josep G. Canadell
  • Benjamin Poulter
  • Robert B. Jackson
  • Pierre Regnier
  • Ronny Lauerwald
  • Peter A. Raymond
  • George H. Allen
  • Prabir K. Patra
  • Peter Bergamaschi
  • Phillipe Bousquet
  • Naveen Chandra
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Adrian Gustafson
  • Misa Ishizawa
  • Akihiko Ito
  • Thomas Kleinen
  • Shamil Maksyutov
  • Joe McNorton
  • Joe R. Melton
  • Jurek Müller
  • Yosuke Niwa
  • Shushi Peng
  • William J. Riley
  • Arjo Segers
  • Hanqin Tian
  • Aki Tsuruta
  • Yi Yin
  • Zhen Zhang
  • Bo Zheng
  • Qianlai Zhuang
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Summary, in English

The ongoing development of the Global Carbon Project (GCP) global methane (CH4) budget shows a continuation of increasing CH4 emissions and CH4 accumulation in the atmosphere during 2000–2017. Here, we decompose the global budget into 19 regions (18 land and 1 oceanic) and five key source sectors to spatially attribute the observed global trends. A comparison of top-down (TD) (atmospheric and transport model-based) and bottom-up (BU) (inventory- and process model-based) CH4 emission estimates demonstrates robust temporal trends with CH4 emissions increasing in 16 of the 19 regions. Five regions—China, Southeast Asia, USA, South Asia, and Brazil—account for >40% of the global total emissions (their anthropogenic and natural sources together totaling >270 Tg CH4 yr−1 in 2008–2017). Two of these regions, China and South Asia, emit predominantly anthropogenic emissions (>75%) and together emit more than 25% of global anthropogenic emissions. China and the Middle East show the largest increases in total emission rates over the 2000 to 2017 period with regional emissions increasing by >20%. In contrast, Europe and Korea and Japan show a steady decline in CH4 emission rates, with total emissions decreasing by ~10% between 2000 and 2017. Coal mining, waste (predominantly solid waste disposal) and livestock (especially enteric fermentation) are dominant drivers of observed emissions increases while declines appear driven by a combination of waste and fossil emission reductions. As such, together these sectors present the greatest risks of further increasing the atmospheric CH4 burden and the greatest opportunities for greenhouse gas abatement.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publiceringsår

2022

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

182-200

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Global Change Biology

Volym

28

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Climate Research

Nyckelord

  • anthropogenic emissions
  • bottom-up
  • methane emissions
  • natural emissions
  • regional
  • source sectors
  • top-down

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1354-1013