How Much Carbon Dioxide Does Your City Produce Each Day?

Now you can find out thanks to a group of researchers publishing daily carbon emissions from 1500 cities around the world.

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By The Physics arXiv Blog
Apr 22, 2022 2:00 PMApr 22, 2022 8:00 PM
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One of the challenges in reducing carbon emissions is knowing how much you are already producing. Only then is it possible to accurately plan how to make future emissions lower.

The trouble, of course, is that measuring carbon emissions in a timely fashion with high resolution is tricky. Carbon comes from a variety of sources, often measured in different ways. And the geographical resolution of this data can be poor, making it difficult to pinpoint the most polluting sources.

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