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carbon · carbon dioxide, tonnes
emitted
41 billion
a year
1,299
a second
112 million
a day
captured by machines
10,000
a year
3.17e-4
a second
27
a day
method Global Carbon Budget 2024: fossil + land-use CO2. capture: IEA tracker of operating direct air capture.
- about a quarter to a third of the left column is the food system: the animals, the feed, the cleared land, the fertilizer.source: Global Carbon Project 2024; Crippa et al. 2021
- the largest carbon capture plant on earth removes in a year what the world emits in about ten seconds.source: Climeworks Mammoth; IEA DAC tracker
- every second on this page: about as much co2 as thirty cars driving for a year.source: Global Carbon Project; EPA
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=carbon" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · carbon"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- Global Carbon Budget 2024: fossil + land-use CO2. capture: IEA tracker of operating direct air capture.
- range
- emissions 39–42 Gt CO2/yr; DAC 0.005–0.05 Mt/yr
- confidence
- count (emissions); count (capture)
- weakness
- 'captured by machines' excludes CCS at point sources (~45 Mt/yr), which is a different thing; the site compares air to air.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-038 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0