Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change, are on track to rise one percent in 2022 to reach an all-time high, scientists said Friday at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt —
Global CO2 emissions from all sources — including deforestation and land use — will top out at 40.6 billion tonnes, just below the record level in 2019, the first peer-reviewed projections for 2022 showed. Barely 1.2C of warming to date has unleashed a crescendo of deadly and costly extreme weather, from heat waves and drought to flooding and tropical storms made more destructive by rising seas.
To put that in perspective: in 2020, with much of the world’s economy on lock down, emissions fell by only six percent. On current emissions trends of 40 billion tonnes a year, that “carbon budget” would be used up in less than a decade.‘Deeply depressing’
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