Climate ‘reality check’: Carbon pollution jumps
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(5 Dec 2018) After several years of little growth, global emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide took a big jump this year, discouraged scientists announced on Wednesday. The biggest global increase of greenhouse gases in seven years was revealed while diplomats met at the COP24 UN climate conference in Poland Representatives from almost 200 countries have gathered to work out how to meet the targets laid out in the 2015 Paris agreement, but scientists say the latest figures put some of the goals nearly out of reach. Projections show world carbon emissions increased 2.7 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to three studies from the Global Carbon Project, an international scientific collaboration of academics, governments and industry that tracks emissions of greenhouse gases. The studies found that this year the world is spewing 40.9 billion tons (37.1 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide a year, up from 39.8 billion tons (36.2 billion metric tons) last year. The margin of error is about one percentage point on either side. Speaking at the COP24 conference, Greenpeace climate change advisor Jens Mattias Clausen said politicians talked a lot about strategies and long-term goals, but were showing a lack of action. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/8bab5597767c06f319579e194a136010
