CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, main driver of climate crisis and global heating, are on track to rise 1% in 2022 to reach an all-time high, scientists warn at COP27 summit in Egypt
"Emissions are now five percent above what they were when the Paris Agreement was signed" in 2015, say scientists at COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
"Oil is more driven by the recovery from Covid, and coal and gas are more driven by events in Ukraine," Glen Peters, research director at CICERO climate research institute in Norway, told AFP news agency on Thursday. Heating beyond that threshold, scientists warn, risks triggering dangerous tipping points in the climate system.
Over a longer time frame, the annual rise in CO2 from fossil fuel use has slowed, on average, to 0.5 percent per year over the last decade after climbing three percent annually from 2000 to 2010. In recent decades, scientists could usually draw a straight line between CO2 trends and the economy of China, which has been the world's top carbon polluter for about 15 years.
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