While global carbon pollution is still increasing, it isn’t increasing at as fast a rate as 10 or 15 years ago. Much of the jump was in transportation - cars and air travel - with people’s limits on travel during the pandemic wearing off, Friedlingstein said. China’s lockdown in 2022 to try to control renewed COVID-19 is a major factor in that country’s drop, he said. He said those two factors make this year’s data chaotic and hard to draw trends from.
In both cases, it is a reaction to the pandemic and perhaps a bit of the energy crisis created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, study lead author Pierre Friedlingstein of the University of Exeter told The Associated Press. American emissions had been steadily dropping while Chinese emissions had been rising - until this year. SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) - The world’s burning of coal, oil and natural gas this year is putting 1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air than last year, bad news for the fight against climate change but with an odd twist, according to scientists who track emissions.Ĭhina’s carbon pollution was down 0.9% this year compared to 2021, while emissions in the United States were 1.5% higher, said a study by scientists at Global Carbon Project released early Friday at international climate talks in Egypt.
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