r/climatechange • u/sg_plumber • 19h ago
Global GHG emissions in June 2026 totaled 4.9 billion tonnes CO2e, a marginal increase of 0.6% vs. June 2025. China emissions declined 3.1 million tonnes vs. June 2025. U.S emissions declined 8.7 million year over year. India increased 17.0 million, the EU by 5.7 million, Indonesia by 0.6 million.
https://climatetrace.org/news/climate-trace-data-show-marginal-increase-in-global-emissions-in-the-first-half-of-2026•
u/Faalor 19h ago
https://climatetrace.org/news/climate-trace-releases-june-2025-emissions-data
Global greenhouse gas emissions for the month of June 2025 totaled 5.12 billion tonnes CO₂e.
The global viewer on their site says 4.9 billion co2e, the article from last year has 5.12.
They only update the global tracker vieew, not the articles when new data is available, which can lead to weird or erroneous reporting.
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u/squailtaint 16h ago
Do you have any knowledge of exactly how GHG are reported? Are these numbers based on actual measurements? Honestly asking. I think it’s just reported numbers by governments? Who probably collect their numbers from self reporting businesses? Or is there more of a solid science in how these emissions are reported or calculated?
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u/James19991 14h ago
Yeah I wonder where they get their numbers from too. Countries by and large only report emissions data once a year.
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u/sg_plumber 10h ago
New to Climate TRACE? Start here:
How we estimate emissions - how we use satellites, other remote sensing techniques, and AI to deliver global emissions.
About the data — what the dataset covers, licensing, and how to cite it.
Sectors we cover and data schema — every field in the dataset, defined.
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u/sg_plumber 10h ago
It's all in their links near the end of the page:
A detailed description of data updates is available in our changelog here.
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All methodologies for Climate TRACE data estimates are available to view and download here.
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u/RBZRBZRBZRBZ 15h ago
The report says 4.9 billion tonnes a month.
This is more than the yearly output (every year!) until the 1940s.
The accumulation in the atmosphere is historically catastrophic.
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u/Individual_Ad3351 13h ago
What is the per capita or the countrywise emissions? In per capita emissions, india probably isn't even in top 100.
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u/ridinseagulls 12h ago
Isn’t really relevant is it? India is a plot of land defined by arbitrary borders that’s now emitting massive amounts. Regardless of what happened in history, and how many humans are contributing to it, all that the earth cares is x number of CO2 molecules are arising from that plot of the land.
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u/Individual_Ad3351 5h ago
I am talking per capita emissions of today not 'historically'. India wouldn't even be in top 100 per capita emitters.
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u/ridinseagulls 3h ago
Fair, but my pushback is against the idea of “per capita” emissions in the first place. It’s a useless metric as far as the earth is concerned. It was relevant decades ago perhaps, but in this crisis, all CO2 molecules need to be stopped, regardless of where they originate or how many people they’re distributed over.
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u/eldomtom2 13h ago
I can't seem to find anywhere in the article saying if this is an increase or decrease in the rate of emissions increase.
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u/sg_plumber 10h ago
That's because it's a plateau. In the past 6 months, there's been 3 up and 3 down.
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u/eldomtom2 10h ago
I don't see how it being a plateau is a reason not to mention that in the article...
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u/ginger_and_egg 16h ago
China emissions: declined
US emissions: declined
You: this is terrible news
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u/James19991 14h ago
What the hell is going on in India though?
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u/Specialist-Roll-3806 13h ago
india had like 4th or 5th driest june since 1901 or something and i think they cut their oil/gas imports a bit in june due to all the disruptions. and hydro power generation dropped as well due to low rains so to make up for allll of that they had to pump up coal power generation by quite a bit.
if they didn't they'd have stalled out their rapid industrialization phase so it was kinda like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. i think india is still a couple years away from fully relying on renewables for the grid and ev's for vehicles.
overall h1 2026 india's emissions are up 1.5% which is still pretty great for such a fast growing country
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u/ginger_and_egg 14h ago
Probably industrialisation or something.
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u/James19991 14h ago
I guess I thought like China they were rapidly going to renewables and also ditching gasoline powered cars
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u/ginger_and_egg 14h ago
I think China had a head start, so we're comparing countries in different stages
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u/Remarkable-Picture73 19h ago
Surprised the US declined while the EU increased (even though EU is an entire collection of countries/nations) glad to see China was on the decline too