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News from the Low latency Global Carbon Budget, including new editions and publications.

A towering rain cloud lit by the late-afternoon sun rises above the rainforest canopy in the Mamirauá reserve, Amazonas, Brazil 28 September 2026

2025 budget preprint available on arXiv

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Aerial view of Lake Tefé in the Brazilian Amazon, with low-water channels and exposed sandbanks under a dark shelf cloud bringing the first rains after the 2024 drought 1 September 2026

Late-2024 carbon losses dominated the July 2024–June 2025 budget

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A proboscis monkey leaps between trees through wildfire smoke haze in South Kalimantan, Indonesia 10 August 2026

El Niño weakened the tropical land sink from July 2023 to June 2024

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The branches of a lone tree silhouetted against a pale sun and a pink sky thick with wildfire smoke in the Pantanal, Brazil 15 January 2026

Record CO2 growth in 2024 as the land sink weakened

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Charred tree trunks and fallen logs on a burned hillside above Adams Lake, British Columbia, weeks after the 2023 Bush Creek East wildfire 22 October 2024

Land carbon sink in 2023 weakest since 2003

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