March 28, 2025 – Today, Climate TRACE began reporting monthly greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data with a lag time of only 60 days for every major GHG in every major sector and subsector, every country, state, more than 9,000 urban areas, and more than 660 million individual sources – making the Climate TRACE inventory the world’s most comprehensive, timely, and up-to-date database of greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate TRACE’s preliminary calculation of global greenhouse gas emissions for the month of January 2025 is 5.26 billion tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) – a 0.59% decline as compared to January 2024. Global methane emissions in January 2025 were 32.24 million tonnes – roughly the same as January 2024.

December 2024 (-0.02%) and January 2025 represent the first monthly declines in emissions – year over year – post-COVID and since the beginning of Climate TRACE’s monthly breakdown of greenhouse gas emissions data, which dates back to January 2021. As the Climate TRACE coalition gathers additional data on key sectors, these monthly data estimates will provide an early indication as to whether global emissions are beginning to peak. While our preliminary data indicate that the world is – ever so slightly – moving in the right direction, as we measure subsequent months, we will know more about whether this is a consistent trend or a one-off.