{"id":30877,"date":"2017-11-14T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T09:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30877"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T09:51:31","slug":"world-carbon-emissions-on-the-rise-again-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30877","title":{"rendered":"World carbon emissions on the rise again: study"},"content":{"rendered":"

BONN Nov 14 (TNS):<\/strong> World carbon emissions are set to rise 2 percent this year to a new record, scientists say, dashing hopes that global emissions had already peaked.<\/p>\n

Carbon emissions had been roughly flat from 2014-16, but will increase this year mainly due to a rise in China after a two-year decline, the scientists said.<\/p>\n

Their data \u2014 presented during negotiations among almost 200 nations in Germany about details of the 2015 Paris Agreement climate accord \u2014 are a setback to a global goal of curbing emissions to avert more downpours, heat waves, and rising sea levels.<\/p>\n

“The plateau of last year was not peak emissions after all,\u201d the Global Carbon Project \u2014 a group of 76 scientists in 15 countries \u2014 wrote of the findings.<\/p>\n

Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry \u2014 the bulk of man-made greenhouse gases \u2014 were on track to gain 2 percent from 2016 levels to a record high of about 37 billion tonnes in 2017, it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlobal CO2 emissions appear to be going up strongly once again … This is very disappointing,\u201d Corinne Le Quere \u2014 the lead researcher and director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the Britain’s\u00a0University of East Anglia \u2014 said.<\/p>\n

Glen Peters \u2014 another leader of the study at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research in Oslo \u2014 said China\u2019s emissions were set to rise 3.5 percent, driven by more coal demand amid stronger economic growth.<\/p>\n

China \u2014 the top greenhouse gas emitter ahead of the United States \u2014 accounts for almost 30 percent of world emissions.<\/p>\n

US emissions were set to decline by 0.4 percent in 2017, a smaller fall than in recent years, also reflecting more burning of coal.<\/p>\n

Coal\u2019s gains were linked to a rise in the price of natural gas that made coal more attractive in power plants, Peters told Reuters, rather than the effects of US President Donald Trump\u2019s pro-coal policies.<\/p>\n

Trump plans to pull out of the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n

European Union emissions were set to decline by 0.2 percent, which is less of a fall than in previous years.<\/p>\n

However, EU climate commissioner Miguel Arias Canete told reporters on the sidelines of UN climate talks in Bonn that the 28-nation bloc has been steadily reducing its emissions and has one of the most ambitious climate plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf other countries were as ambitious as us, perhaps emissions would not have risen so much,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Worldwide, \u201cwe are probably in the level-to-upwards direction for emissions in the next years rather than level or downwards\u201d, Peters said, because of stronger global gross domestic product (GDP) growth.<\/p>\n

Richard Black \u2014 the director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit think-tank but was not involved in the study \u2014 said carbon emissions per unit of GDP were falling.<\/p>\n

This year \u201cmight well prove a small blip on an otherwise flattening emissions curve\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

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