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Global Carbon Budget 2025: Decrease in land use emissions
13 Nov 2025
The new report from the Global Carbon Project shows that total CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use and land use changes have risen more slowly over the past ten years.
The latest report from the international Global Carbon Project, which calculates global greenhouse gas emissions annually and identifies the various sources, states that global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use are expected to rise by 1.1% in 2025.
Prof. Dr. Julia Pongratz, Dr. Clemens Schwingshackl and Tobias Nützel from the Teaching and Research Unit for Physical Geography and Earth System Interactions were involved in the preparation of the Global Carbon Budget 2025. They led the estimates of land use emissions and contributed modelling results to the current figures. Global CO2 emissions from land use change are expected to decline in 2025, mainly due to a decrease in deforestation and forest fires in South America.
Further information can be found in the LMU newsroom.
The results of the Global Carbon Project were also reported on tagesschau.de.