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OKIsItJustMe

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Wed Dec 17, 2014, 04:39 PM Dec 2014

Global CO2 emissions increase to new all-time record, but growth is slowing down

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/global-co2-emissions-increase-new-all-time-record-growth-slowing-down
[font face=Serif][font size=5]Global CO[font size="1"]2[/font] emissions increase to new all-time record, but growth is slowing down[/font]

16 Dec 2014

[font size=4]2013 saw global CO[font size="1"]2[/font] emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production reach a new all-time high. This was mainly due to the continuing steady increase in energy use in emerging economies over the past ten years. However, emissions increased at a notably slower rate (2%) than on average in the last ten years (3.8% per year since 2003, excluding the credit crunch years).[/font]

[font size=3]This slowdown, which began in 2012, signals a further decoupling of global emissions and economic growth, which reflects mainly the lower emissions growth rate of China. China, the USA and the EU remain the top-3 emitters of CO[font size="1"]2[/font], accounting for respectively 29%, 15% and 11% of the world’s total. After years of a steady decline, the CO[font size="1"]2[/font] emissions of the United States grew by 2.5% in 2013, whereas in the EU emissions continued to decrease, by 1.4% in 2013.

These are the main findings in the annual report ‘Trends in global CO[font size="1"]2[/font] emissions’, released today by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the JRC. The report is based on recent results from the joint JRC/PBL Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), the latest statistics on energy use and various other activities.

In 2013, global CO[font size="1"]2[/font] emissions grew to the new record of 35.3 billion tonnes (Gt). Sharp risers include Brazil (+ 6.2%), India (+ 4.4%), China (+ 4.2%) and Indonesia (+2.3%). The much lower emissions increase in China of 4.2% in 2013 and 3.4% in 2012 was primarily due to a decline in electricity and fuel demand from the basic materials industry, and aided by an increase in renewable energy and by energy efficiency improvements. The emissions increase in the United States in 2013 (+2.5%) was mainly due to a shift in power production from gas back to coal together with an increase in gas consumption due to a higher demand for space heating.

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Global CO2 emissions increase to new all-time record, but growth is slowing down (Original Post) OKIsItJustMe Dec 2014 OP
Just enjoy the log ride ffr Dec 2014 #1

ffr

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1. Just enjoy the log ride
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 02:48 AM
Dec 2014

It's already too late to do anything about it. There are too many demographics who all have too many varying opinions, all unwilling to see the greater good of sacrifice. The young want serious rollbacks, the old could give two-sh*ts, connservatives deny there's a problem, polluter nations think other polluter nations pollute more than them, and any politician to dares threaten to make clean energy happen is quickly spent out of office by the very fossil industries who have a stake in keeping pollution going.

Just put on some good music, sit back and don't stress about it. If you want to do something productive, you could write our epitaph.

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