Counting Carbon from space

To stay within the 1.5C global warming target set out in the Paris Agreement we need to limit the amount of carbon added to the atmosphere - known as the carbon budget. Only around 17% of the carbon budget is now left. That is about 10 years at current emission rates.
The European Space Agency (ESA) uses satellites to track carbon in the atmosphere, oceans and land and gauge whether we can stay within the carbon budget or will need to deal with the more severe consequences of further warming.