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SUMMARY:Recent trends in the emissions and sinks of carbon dioxide - Corin
 ne Le Quéré: Professor of Climate Change Science and Policy at the Unive
 rsity of East Anglia and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
  Research
DTSTART:20110222T120000Z
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CONTACT:paul haynes
DESCRIPTION: Efforts to control climate change require the stabilization o
 f atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. This can only be achiev
 ed through a drastic reduction in global CO2 emissions. Yet fossil fuel em
 issions increased by an average of 2.5% per year between 2000 and 2009. Fo
 ssil fuel emissions since year 2000 increased in conjunction with increase
 d contributions from emerging economies\, trade\, the use of coal etc. In 
 contrast\, CO2 emissions from deforestation & land-use changes appear to h
 ave declined by 25% between the 1990s-2000s.  The presentation will review
  the drivers of recent changes in CO2 emissions\, and discuss the partitio
 ning of the emissions between the atmosphere\, ocean and land CO2 sinks\, 
 discussing the uncertainties in the carbon cycle\, and the possibility of 
 establishing an International Carbon Office to institutionalize data analy
 sis and assessing the carbon balance. 
LOCATION:4CMR board room
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