Hence, the rate of global carbon dioxide emissions continues to accelerate. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
However, global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement production have continued to grow by 2.5 per cent per year, on average, in the past decade. (carbonbrief.org)
This is the same order of magnitude as global carbon dioxide emissions in 2012 from fossil fuel burning, the paper notes. (carbonbrief.org)