The CO2 Human Emissions (CHE) project has produced a new global simulation that realistically illustrates the variability of CO2 in the atmosphere. It will assist research studies focusing on the monitoring of anthropogenic CO2 emissions in support of the Paris Agreement.

The CHE and VERIFY projects successfully held their Joint General Assembly 2020 in a virtual meeting format and all presentations are now available online. More than 100 participants, with peaks up to 130, joined the 5 sessions distributed over a 3-day online meeting from 7 to 9 July 2020. Presentations and discussions during the Joint General Assembly documented the progress in understanding of anthropogenic aspects of the full carbon cycle and the developments towards a Copernicus anthropogenic CO2 emissions monitoring & verification support capacity, for which an earlier workshop organised by the European Commission had outlined the European vision (see Workshop on monitoring anthropogenic-CO2 emissions using Copernicus).

CHE partner University of East Anglia led an international team that has published a new article in the journal Nature Climate Change, outlining that the COVID-19 global lockdown has had an “extreme” effect on daily carbon emissions, but it is unlikely to last.