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28 May 2021
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| 28 May 2021
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The consolidated European synthesis of CO2 emissions and removals for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2018
Ana Maria Roxana Petrescu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081HV,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Matthew J. McGrath
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Robbie M. Andrew
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Philippe Peylin
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Glen P. Peters
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Philippe Ciais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Gregoire Broquet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Francesco N. Tubiello
FAO, Statistics Division, Via Terme di Caracalla, Rome 00153, Italy
Christoph Gerbig
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 10,
07745 Jena, Germany
Julia Pongratz
Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 80333
Munich, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg,
Germany
Greet Janssens-Maenhout
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via Fermi 2749, 21027
Ispra, Italy
Giacomo Grassi
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via Fermi 2749, 21027
Ispra, Italy
Gert-Jan Nabuurs
Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research
(WUR), Wageningen, 6708PB, the Netherlands
Pierre Regnier
Biogeochemistry and Modeling of the Earth System, Université
Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Ronny Lauerwald
Biogeochemistry and Modeling of the Earth System, Université
Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR ECOSYS,
Thiverval-Grignon, France
Matthias Kuhnert
Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of
Aberdeen (UNIABDN), 23 St Machar Drive,Aberdeen, AB24 3UU, UK
Juraj Balkovič
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Ecosystems
Services and Management Program, Schlossplatz 1, 2361, Laxenburg, Austria
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava,
Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Mart-Jan Schelhaas
Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research
(WUR), Wageningen, 6708PB, the Netherlands
Hugo A. C. Denier van der Gon
Department of Climate, Air and Sustainability, TNO, Princetonlaan 6,
3584 CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
Efisio Solazzo
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via Fermi 2749, 21027
Ispra, Italy
Chunjing Qiu
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Roberto Pilli
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via Fermi 2749, 21027
Ispra, Italy
Igor B. Konovalov
Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Richard A. Houghton
Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Dirk Günther
Umweltbundesamt (UBA), 14193 Berlin, Germany
Lucia Perugini
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Viterbo,
Italy
Monica Crippa
Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research
(WUR), Wageningen, 6708PB, the Netherlands
Raphael Ganzenmüller
Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 80333
Munich, Germany
Ingrid T. Luijkx
Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research
(WUR), Wageningen, 6708PB, the Netherlands
Pete Smith
Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of
Aberdeen (UNIABDN), 23 St Machar Drive,Aberdeen, AB24 3UU, UK
Saqr Munassar
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 10,
07745 Jena, Germany
Rona L. Thompson
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Kjeller, Norway
Giulia Conchedda
FAO, Statistics Division, Via Terme di Caracalla, Rome 00153, Italy
Guillaume Monteil
Dept. of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University,
Lund, Sweden
Marko Scholze
Dept. of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University,
Lund, Sweden
Ute Karstens
ICOS Carbon Portal at Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Patrick Brockmann
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Albertus Johannes Dolman
Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081HV,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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This study is topical and provides a state-of-the-art scientific overview of data availability from bottom-up and top-down CO2 fossil emissions and CO2 land fluxes in the EU27+UK. The data integrate recent emission inventories with ecosystem data, land carbon models and regional/global inversions for the European domain, aiming at reconciling CO2 estimates with official country-level UNFCCC national GHG inventories in support to policy and facilitating real-time verification procedures.
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