U.S. greenhouse gas emissions up - Reuters

Source: Reuters

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions up

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
Wed May 9, 11:03 AM ET

BONN, Germany (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian greenhouse gas emissions
rose in 2005, more than cancelling out a dip in the European Union's
emissions despite growing calls to limit global warming, official data shows.

Combined emissions by the United States, Russia and the EU, accounting
for about half the world total, rose by 0.4 percent to 14.55 billion tonnes
in 2005 from 2004, according to data compiled by Reuters from the U.N.
Climate Change Secretariat.

"Emissions trends are continuing upwards, which contradicts political
rhetoric globally," Bill Hare, a Greenpeace adviser who also works at
German Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said during 166-
nation U.N. climate talks in Bonn.

And experts say that emissions by developing nations led by China and
India, which do not have to report 2005 data to the Bonn-based
Secretariat, are rising far faster as they use more coal and oil to power
their fast-growing economies.

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