Pierre Friedlingstein

Biographic Data

ID6818764
NAMEPierre Friedlingstein
GIVEN NAMESPierre
FAMILY NAMEFriedlingstein
SIGNATUREFRIEDLINGSTEIN P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Exeter
ORCID0000-0003-3309-4739
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Ten new insights in climate science 2025

    Open AccessDorian Ospina, Paula Mirazo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Sustainability2026

    Non-Technical Summary This review highlights 10 recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, spanning diverse topics: (1) the global temperature jump of 2023–2024; (2) sea surface warming and marine heatwaves; (3) land carbon sinks; (4) interactions between climate change and biodiversity loss; (5) accelerated groundwater decline; (6) global dengue incidence; (7) income and labour productivity loss; (8) strategic conside…

  • Global Carbon Budget 2023

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Mike O’Sullivan et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2023

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carbon cycle, support the development of climate policies, and project future climate change. Here we describe and synthesize data sets and methodology to quantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and their uncertai…

  • Global Carbon Budget 2021

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Matthew W Jones et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2022

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carboncycle, support the development of climate policies, and project futureclimate change. Here we describe and synthesize datasets and methodology toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertainties. …

  • Global Carbon Budget 2022

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Mike O’Sullivan et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2022

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carboncycle, support the development of climate policies, and project futureclimate change. Here we describe and synthesize data sets and methodologies toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertaintie…

  • Adaptive emission reduction approach to reach any global warming target

    Open AccessJens Terhaar, Thomas L Frölicher et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2022

  • Differences in land-based mitigation estimates reconciled by separating natural and land-use CO2 fluxes at the country level

    Open AccessClemens Schwingshackl, Wolfgang A Obermeier et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

    Anthropogenic and natural CO2 fluxes on land constitute substantial CO2 emissions and removals but are usually not well distinguished in national greenhouse gas reporting. Instead, countries frequently combine natural and indirect human-induced CO2 fluxes on managed land in their reports, which diminishes their usefulness for designing policies consistent with climate mitigation targets. Here, we separate natural and land-use-related CO2 fluxes f…

  • Global fossil carbon emissions rebound near pre-Covid-19 levels

    Open AccessRobert B Jackson, Pierre Friedlingstein et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Fossil CO 2 emissions in 2021 grew an estimated 4.2% (3.5%–4.8%) to 36.2 billion metric tons compared with 2020, pushing global emissions back close to 2019 levels (36.7 Gt CO 2 )

  • A multi-data assessment of land use and land cover emissions from Brazil during 2000–2019

    Open AccessThais M Rosan, Kees Klein Goldewijk et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Brazil is currently the largest contributor of land use and land cover change (LULCC) carbon dioxide net emissions worldwide, representing 17%–29% of the global total. There is, however, a lack of agreement among different methodologies on the magnitude and trends in LULCC emissions and their geographic distribution. Here we perform an evaluation of LULCC datasets for Brazil, including those used in the annual global carbon budget (GCB), and nati…

  • Aerosol–light interactions reduce the carbon budget imbalance

    Open AccessMichael O’sullivan, Mike O’Sullivan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Current estimates of the global land carbon sink contain substantial uncertainties on interannual timescales which contribute to a non-closure in the global carbon budget (GCB) in any given year. This budget imbalance (BIM) partly arises due to the use of imperfect models which are missing or misrepresenting processes. One such omission is the separate treatment of downward direct and diffuse solar radiation on photosynthesis. Here we evaluate an…

  • Five years of variability in the global carbon cycle

    Open AccessZichong Chen, D N Huntzinger et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Year-to-year variability in CO 2 fluxes can yield insight into climate-carbon cycle relationships, a fundamental yet uncertain aspect of the terrestrial carbon cycle. In this study, we use global observations from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite for years 2015–2019 and a geostatistical inverse model to evaluate 5 years of interannual variability (IAV) in CO 2 fluxes and its relationships with environmental drivers. OCO-2 la…

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Mike O’Sullivan et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2020

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate – the “global carbon budget” – is important tobetter understand the global carbon cycle, support the development ofclimate policies, and project future climate change. Here we describe andsynthesize data sets and methodology to quantify the five major componentsof the global carbon…

  • How Simulations of the Land Carbon Sink Are Biased by Ignoring Fluvial Carbon Transfers

    Open AccessRonny Lauerwald, Pierre Regnier et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

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  • Quantifying process-level uncertainty contributions to TCRE and carbon budgets for meeting Paris Agreement climate targets

    Open AccessChris Jones, Chris D Jones et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement requires deep and rapid reductions in anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, but uncertainty surrounds the magnitude and depth of reductions. Earth system models provide a means to quantify the link from emissions to global climate change. Using the concept of TCRE—the transient climate response to cumulative carbon emissions—we can estimate the remaining carbon budget to achieve 1.5 or 2 °C. But the uncertainty…

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Matthew W Jones et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2019

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere– the “global carbon budget” – is important to better understand theglobal carbon cycle, support the development of climate policies, andproject future climate change. Here we describe data sets and methodology toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertainties. Foss…

  • Persistent fossil fuel growth threatens the Paris Agreement and planetary health

    Open AccessRobert B Jackson, Pierre Friedlingstein et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Amidst declarations of planetary emergency and reports that the window for limiting climate change to 1.5 °C is rapidly closing, global average temperatures and fossil fuel emissions continue to rise. Global fossil CO 2 emissions have grown three years consecutively: +1.5% in 2017, +2.1% in 2018, and our slower central projection of +0.6% in 2019 (range of –0.32% to 1.5%) to 37 ± 2 Gt CO 2 (Friedlingstein et al 2019 Earth Syst. Sci. Data accepted…

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

    Open AccessCorinne Le Quéré, Robbie M Andrew et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2018

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide(CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere,ocean, and terrestrial biosphere – the “global carbon budget” – isimportant to better understand the global carbon cycle, support thedevelopment of climate policies, and project future climate change. Here wedescribe data sets and methodology to quantify the five major components ofthe global carbon budget and their uncertainties. Foss…

  • Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C

    Open AccessRichard Millar, Richard J Millar et al.ARTICLENature Geoscience2017

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Open AccessCorinne Le Quéré, Robbie M Andrew et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2016

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere – the “global carbon budget” – is important to better understand the global carbon cycle, support the development of climate policies, and project future climate change. Here we describe data sets and methodology to quantify all major components of the global carbon budget, including their uncertainti…

  • The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) for CMIP6

    Open AccessBrian C O''Neill, Claudia Tebaldi et al.ARTICLEGeoscientific Model Development2016

    Projections of future climate change play a fundamental role in improving understanding of the climate system as well as characterizing societal risks and response options. The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) is the primary activity within Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) that will provide multi-model climate projections based on alternative scenarios of future emissions and land use changes produc…

  • Simulating the Earth system response to negative emissions

    Open AccessChris Jones, Chris D Jones et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Natural carbon sinks currently absorb approximately half of the anthropogenic CO2 emitted by fossilfuel burning, cement production and land-use change. However, this airborne fraction may change inthe future depending on the emissions scenario. An important issue in developing carbon budgets toachieve climate stabilisation targets is the behaviour of natural carbon sinks, particularly under lowemissions mitigation scenarios as required to meet th…

  • The terrestrial carbon budget of South and Southeast Asia

    Open AccessMatthew Cervarich, Shijie Shu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Accomplishing the objective of the current climate policies will require establishing carbon budget and flux estimates in each region and county of the globe by comparing and reconciling multiple estimates including the observations and the results of top-down atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) inversions and bottom-up dynamic global vegetation models. With this in view, this study synthesizes the carbon source/sink due to net ecosystem productiv…

  • The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO 2 sink

    Open AccessAnders Ahlström, Michael Raupach et al.ARTICLEScience2015

    The difference is found at the margins The terrestrial biosphere absorbs about a quarter of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, but the amount that they take up varies from year to year. Why? Combining models and observations, Ahlström et al. found that marginal ecosystems—semiarid savannas and low-latitude shrublands—are responsible for most of the variability. Biological productivity in these semiarid regions is water-limited and strong…

  • More frequent moments in the climate change debate as emissions continue

    Open AccessChris Huntingford, Pierre FriedlingsteinARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Recent years have witnessed unprecedented interest in how the burning of fossil fuels may impact on the global climate system. Such visibility of this issue is in part due to the increasing frequency of key international summits to debate emissions levels, including the 2015 21st Conference of Parties meeting in Paris. In this perspective we plot a timeline of significant climate meetings and reports, and against metrics of atmospheric greenhouse…

  • Measuring a fair and ambitious climate agreement using cumulative emissions

    Open AccessGlen P Peters, Robbie M Andrew et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Policy makers have called for a 'fair and ambitious' global climate agreement. Scientific constraints, such as the allowable carbon emissions to avoid exceeding a 2 °C global warming limit with 66% probability, can help define ambitious approaches to climate targets. However, fairly sharing the mitigation challenge to meet a global target involves human values rather than just scientific facts. We develop a framework based on cumulative emissions…

  • Climate change projections using the IPSL-CM5 Earth System Model

    Open AccessJean-Louis Dufresne, M-A Foujols et al.ARTICLEClimate Dynamics2013

    We present the global general circulation model IPSL-CM5 developed to study the long-term response of the climate system to natural and anthropogenic forcings as part of the 5th Phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). This model includes an interactive carbon cycle, a representation of tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry, and a comprehensive representation of aerosols. As it represents the principal dynamical, physical, a…