These Countries Are Cheating

2023-06-14

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By overcounting how much carbon their forests suck up, and undercounting how much carbon their industries release, countries undercount their total carbon emissions.

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- Paris Agreement: a 2015 treaty negotiated by 196 parties that aims to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

- Carbon emissions: the release of carbon compounds into the atmosphere, mostly in the form of CO2.

- Carbon sink: anything - like a forest - that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases.

- Flaring: the process of burning off excess gas from an oil or gas well or refinery.

- Climate TRACE: a nonprofit that uses satellite data to project emissions.

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Grassi, G., Stehfest, E., Rogelj, J. et al. Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, 425–434 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01033-6

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