Global Carbon Atlas

The Global Carbon Atlas lets visitors explore and visualize data on carbon fluxes, including country-level emissions from human activities.

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About Global Carbon Atlas

The Global Carbon Atlas is a web-based platform for exploring and visualizing data on carbon fluxes from human activities and natural processes. It provides access to downloadable global and country-level emissions datasets for CO₂, methane, and nitrous oxide.

The platform also includes specialized resources such as city-level CO₂ emissions data for 343 global cities, river and lake carbon transport budgets, an interactive narrative on human development and carbon history, and daily fossil fuel CO₂ emissions data via Carbon Monitor. All resources are accessible via a web interface.

Key features

  • Explore and download global and country-level CO₂ emissions data
  • Access global methane and nitrous oxide carbon budget datasets
  • View city-level CO₂ emissions data for 343 global cities
  • Visualize river and lake carbon transport to ocean datasets
  • Explore Carbon Monitor daily fossil fuel CO₂ emissions data
  • Interactive narrative of human development and carbon history
Best for: Researchers, policymakers, and educators focused on carbon emissions and climate data analysis benefit most.
Good for
  • Aggregates carbon data from dozens of global research institutes
  • Provides downloadable emissions datasets at multiple geographic scales
  • Covers multiple greenhouse gases including CO₂, methane, and nitrous oxide
Watch out for
  • Some specialized datasets have outdated publication dates (e.g., 2020 methane budget, 2019 city emissions)
  • No public code repository or open-source access is provided for the platform
  • The platform is limited to web access with no mentioned native mobile applications

Global Carbon Atlas at a glance

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Platforms
Web
Open source
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Language
English
Last checked
Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
Listed
Oct 5, 2026

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Global Carbon Atlas FAQ

What types of carbon emissions data are available on the platform?
The platform provides global and country-level CO₂ emissions data, global methane and nitrous oxide carbon budgets, city-level CO₂ emissions data, river and lake carbon transport datasets, and daily fossil fuel CO₂ emissions data via Carbon Monitor.
Can users download emissions datasets from the platform?
Yes, global and country-level CO₂ emissions datasets are available for download.
How recent is the global carbon budget data?
The latest Global Carbon Budget is the 2023 Edition, published December 5, 2023; other specialized datasets have older publication dates.
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