Sentences with phrase «emissions from burning fossil fuels grew»

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Global carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production grew 2.3 per cent in 2013.

-- How much do rich countries that, to a significant extent, built their wealth burning fossil fuels, owe poor ones to help them grow without creating a vast new pulse of emissions from fuel burning?

«If there was no constraint of any sort, one could imagine ever - growing positive emissions from fossil fuel burning, compensated by even stronger negative emissions.»

Global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels did not grow in 2015 and are projected to rise only slightly in 2016, marking three years of almost no growth, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Global Carbon Project.

Switching from coal to natural gas presents significant emission reduction opportunities, particularly in fast growing economies with coal - based power generation, since natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel.

Climate neutrality means net zero emissions, or that any emissions from burning fossil fuels are offset by measures such as planting trees that soak up carbon dioxide as they grow.