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Lab · v1.1 Live Carbon Tracker

Sixteen Cities.
One Tournament.

Per-second CO₂e emissions across all 16 host cities of the 2026 FIFA World Cup — derived from Climate TRACE's monthly inventory v5.5.0 (data through January 2026). All figures in metric tonnes (1,000 kg). Animated to illustrate the scale of urban metabolism the tournament will sit on top of.

Total emissions · all 16 host cities · since you opened this page
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Derived from Climate TRACE monthly · updated every second
Per-second rate
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Across active cities
Combined population
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Metro area aggregate
Active cities
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Currently displayed
Continental heat map · cumulative emissions since pageload
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Jun 11
Pre-tournament
Day 0 of 39 16 active
Cumulative CO₂e
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Number under each dot
Cumulative metric tonnes CO₂e since pageload
Values shown in 0.1-Mt steps — each tick = 100,000 metric tonnes (one full Mt = 1,000,000 metric tonnes). Below the first 100K threshold the live ticker reads in tonnes (e.g. 27,500 t) for visibility.
Speed
Tournament window: Jun 11 → Jul 19, 2026 · 39 days · 104 matches across 16 venues
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Match-day surge mode
Host city emissions · live Streaming
Why this matters

The footprint isn't the match.
It's everything around it.

A single 90-minute fixture is a rounding error against the year-round metabolism of a host city. The real climate question is whether World Cup infrastructure — stadiums, transit, hotels, fan zones — locks in carbon-intensive systems for decades, or accelerates the transition to clean ones.

~3.6 Mt CO₂e
FIFA's pre-tournament estimate · 2026 total
What this version does

Real inventory. Animated by the second.

Each card takes Climate TRACE's most recent monthly figure for that city — combined CO₂, methane, and nitrous oxide expressed as CO₂-equivalent — divides by the seconds in that month, and ticks. The number you see climb is the city's published emissions rate, not a guess.

v5.5.0
Climate TRACE release · January 2026 data
What the running total looks like in plain terms
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Trans-Atlantic flights
(per passenger · 0.5 metric t)
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Cars driven for a year
(US average · 4.6 metric t)
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Households · annual
energy use (~7.5 metric t)
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Mature trees needed
to offset (1 yr · 21 kg)
Read this first

Numbers are derived from Climate TRACE's published monthly inventory, not a live satellite feed — satellites measure atmospheric concentration, not per-second emission rates. We take the most recent monthly figure (Jan 2026, v5.5.0) and animate it. Currently displayed values are placeholder estimates calibrated to known Climate TRACE figures while we finalize CSV ingestion.

Top emitters · right now
By host nation · live share
By sector · all 16 cities
Methodology
  • SourceClimate TRACE monthly emissions inventory v5.5.0, released March 2026, covering data through January 2026. Free, CC-BY 4.0 licensed.
  • UnitMetric tonnes of CO₂-equivalent (1 metric tonne = 1,000 kg ≈ 1.10 US short tons). CO₂e combines CO₂, methane, and nitrous oxide weighted by 100-year global warming potential.
  • City rateMonthly inventory total ÷ seconds in that month = metric tonnes per second. A small ±5 % jitter is applied for visual liveness only.
  • SectorsPower, transportation, buildings, fossil-fuel ops, manufacturing, waste. Climate TRACE bottom-up estimates from ~745 M observed assets.
  • Surge modeOptional +12 % uplift representing match-day travel and stadium-operations literature (placeholder; not from Climate TRACE).
  • Current statePlaceholders calibrated to Climate TRACE's published top-100 urban-area tables. Real CSVs to be ingested in v1.2.
Roadmap · v1.2 and beyond

Real CSV ingestion. Replace placeholder values with Climate TRACE city CSVs downloaded from the Explore portal ↗ (per-city) or the Data downloads page ↗ (bulk).

Monthly auto-refresh. Re-fetch each month when Climate TRACE publishes a new release (~2-month lag).

Match-day overlay. FIFA fixture API mapped onto the city cards during the tournament window.

Sector-level explorer. Click a card → time-series chart showing how power, transport, and buildings shift through the year.

Post-tournament audit. Compare June–July 2026 actuals against same window in 2025.