The main points highlighted in the article “Global Carbon Emissions Reach Record 10 Billion Tons, Threatening 2 Degree Target” by ScienceDaily, 4th December, 2011. (Available at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111204144648.htm) are given below:
- According to researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research,
- The new analysis by the Global Carbon Project highlights that fossil fuel emissions increased by 5.9 per cent in 2010 and by 49 per cent since 1990.
- On average, fossil fuel emissions have risen by 3.1 per cent each year between 2000 and 2010 that is three times the rate of increase during the 1990s and is projected to continue to increase by 3.1 per cent in 2011.
- Total emissions including fossil fuel combustion, cement production, deforestation and other land use emissions reached 10 billion tons of carbon in 2010 for the first time.
- CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has reached 389.6 parts per million in 2010. Further during the Week of November 27, 2011 it was 390.96 ppm when compared to 389.46 of the same week a year ago, indicating an increase of 1.5 ppm on a year to year basis. Details are available at: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html .
- Emissions from the trade of goods and services produced in emerging economies but consumed in the West increased from 2.5 per cent of the share of rich countries in 1990 to 16 per cent in 2010.
- Emissions from the trade of goods and services grew from 5 per cent of the emissions produced locally in 1990 to 46 per cent in 2010 exceeding the reductions in local emissions.
- The global CO2 emissions since 2000 are tracking the high end of the projections used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that would lead to a temperature increase of more than two degrees by 2100.
Posted by:
Ramesh Kumar Jalan, Ph.D.
Resource Person & Moderator
United Nations Development Programme
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