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Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 08 2015, @01:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the take-a-deep-breath dept.

DeathMonkey writes with a story from InsideClimate News:

The volume of carbon dioxide belched into the atmosphere from human activity this year is on track to decline slightly from last year's emissions, according to a new analysis published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Monday. The anticipated decrease in CO2 emissions comes even as the world economy is growing, suggesting a turning point in clean energy development—and a long-hoped-for "decoupling" of economic growth and increased carbon emissions.

[...] Decreased coal use in China—whose carbon dioxide emissions account for nearly one-third of global emissions—was largely responsible for the decline in global emissions, the researchers concluded. After a decade of rapid growth, China's emissions rate slowed to 1.2 percent in 2014 and is expected to drop by approximately 3.9 percent in 2015, according to the report. More than half of new energy needs in China were met in 2014 from non-fossil fuel sources, such as hydro, nuclear, wind and solar power.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 08 2015, @04:50PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday December 08 2015, @04:50PM (#273482) Journal

    China's not even trying to green.

    This 83.3 billion dollars says otherwise. [fs-unep-centre.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday December 09 2015, @11:33AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday December 09 2015, @11:33AM (#273890) Journal
    To put that in perspective, it's 0.6% of China's GDP. That seems pretty high, but remember that a lot of it is for export: China produces a huge proportion of the world's solar cells. There's a big difference between a concerted effort to switch to renewable energy, and a big investment in export goods (though we're still likely to benefit, so it's nothing to complain about).
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