The modeling also highlights that, under this scenario, developing nations will produce a big portion
of global annual emissions in the future.
Reality is that the concentration of CO2 in the global atmosphere can not be reduced until the rate
of global annual emissions is reduced to zero.
Five billion tonnes of carbon is equivalent to 18.3 bn tonnes of carbon dioxide — around half of
global annual emissions in the present day.
To have a 50 - 50 chance of staying beneath the maximum global temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius (about 4 degrees Fahrenheit) announced as a target at the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit,
global annual emissions by 2030 should stay beneath 30 billion metric tons.
An assessment of these suggests that
global annual emissions of greenhouse gases in 2030 will equate to between 55 and 60 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
«Emissions from Amazonian wetlands alone appear to contribute about 4 % of
the global annual emissions of CH4 from all natural and anthropogenic sources.
The COP, by decision 1 / CP.17, noted with grave concern the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties» mitigation pledges in terms of
global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of holding the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C or 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
Reality is that the rate of
global annual emissions of CO2 can not be stabilized until the growth in the rate of global annual emissions ceases; and, the growth is occurring almost exclusively in Asia.