Not exact matches
Even so, China's intention to
peak its
emissions by 2030 has been described as conservative by environmentalists and envoys who say it can
probably reach the milestone earlier.
These trends are
probably not well captured in the economic models and explain why CO2
emissions have recently
peaked.
If
emissions peaked later, the associated temperature increase would
probably be larger.
We're at about 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide
emissions a year — and notwithstanding the global economic slowdown,
probably poised to rise 2 % per year (the exact future growth rate is quite hard to project because it depends so much on what China does and how quickly
peak oil kicks in).