Sentences with phrase «sharp decline in emissions»

But the hefty increase in emissions from fast - developing parts of the world like China and India had the effect of canceling out the sharp decline in emissions elsewhere.

Not exact matches

New data published Monday by a global team of researchers show that sharp declines in Chinese coal burning and a continued surge of renewable energy worldwide may have contributed to the first - ever global decline in emissions during a year when the overall global economy grew.

That decline is even sharper than in the EU which does have economy - wide climate policy, and where CO2 emissions in the first half of 2012 are down 11 % from 2005 levels (though the EU has an international offset program that yields additional emission reductions).

The best scenario from here on out is that 2014 was the year — in all of human history — that humans emitted the most greenhouse gases and that annual emissions will now start to decline, with the sharpest decreases from China, the United States, and Europe.

But the US EIA (Energy Information Administration) report on greenhouse gas emissions caught the snapshot of an economy in sharp decline.

[120] The sharp acceleration in CO2 emissions since 2000 to more than a 3 % increase per year (more than 2 ppm per year) from 1.1 % per year during the 1990s is attributable to the lapse of formerly declining trends in carbon intensity of both developing and developed nations.