Carbon budget Archives - Ocean and Coastal Futures

16 Sep 2025

Ocean carbon sink weakens amid 2023 marine heat wave

Photo by Leon Rohrwild The world’s oceans absorbed around 1 billion tonnes less carbon dioxide in 2023 than expected — a drop of about 10% compared with previous years — according to new research led by ETH Zurich and published in Nature Climate Change. The team reported that record sea surface temperatures and shifting climate patterns weakened one of […]

04 Jul 2016

Government sets the fifth carbon budget (2028-2032)

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The Government has agreed with the Committee on Climate Change and proposes that the fifth budgetary period covering 2028 to 2032 should be set at 1,725 MtCO2e.The orders and associated documents for the fifth budgetary period covering 2028 to 2032Impact assessment for the fifth carbon budget The Renewable Energy Association welcomed the news ‘Crucial first […]