A new course for global emissions?

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2942, 2013, págs. 6-7
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Year 2012 may go down in history as a remarkable year. For the first time, the maddening pace of humanity's greenhouse gas emissions showed signs of a global slowdown. Importantly--and unlike the drop in emissions triggered by the 2008 recession--the let-off is happening at the same time as global wealth continues to swell. The news should provide fresh momentum for UN negotiations on a new climate treaty, which resume in Poland on Monday. The data show that global carbon dioxide emissions rose by 1.4% in 2012. Allowing for it being a leap year, the underlying increase was just 1.1%, says the report, compared with an average of 2.9% since 2000.