Greenhouse emissions grow more rapidly Greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing four times as fast as in the 1990s, giving added urgency to international talks on climate change. Research carried out for Unesco found on Friday that the rate of increase in emissions from burning fossil fuels between 2000 and 2005 was four times that between 1990 and 2000. The research will be presented in Nairobi, where representatives from governments across the world are meeting to discuss the Kyoto protocol on climate change, which requires developed countries to cut emissions. The accelerated rise is a result of rapid growth in developing economies such as China, India and Brazil, as well as the failure of developed countries such as the US to mitigate their greenhouse gas output. Even in countries such as the UK, which is on target to meet its Kyoto commitment to cut emissions by 2012 by 12.5 per cent compared with 1990 levels, emissions have been rising in recent years. Despite efforts among some countries, such as those in the European Union, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the global growth rate was 3.2 per cent in the five years to 2005 compared with 0.8 per cent in the period 1990 to 1999, according to data from the Global Carbon Project.
Greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing four times as fast as in the 1990s, giving added urgency to international talks on climate change.
Research carried out for Unesco found on Friday that the rate of increase in emissions from burning fossil fuels between 2000 and 2005 was four times that between 1990 and 2000.
The research will be presented in Nairobi, where representatives from governments across the world are meeting to discuss the Kyoto protocol on climate change, which requires developed countries to cut emissions.
The accelerated rise is a result of rapid growth in developing economies such as China, India and Brazil, as well as the failure of developed countries such as the US to mitigate their greenhouse gas output. Even in countries such as the UK, which is on target to meet its Kyoto commitment to cut emissions by 2012 by 12.5 per cent compared with 1990 levels, emissions have been rising in recent years.
Despite efforts among some countries, such as those in the European Union, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the global growth rate was 3.2 per cent in the five years to 2005 compared with 0.8 per cent in the period 1990 to 1999, according to data from the Global Carbon Project.
So we are talking about an increase to the acceleration of the carbon in the atmosphere. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
It's bad enough, though. Words and ideas I offer here may be used freely and without attribution.
yet another demonstration, in my view, that France's biggest problem is that its elites do not believe in themselves anymore
i think they believe in themselves, just not in France. an aspect of elite thinking since at least the revolution, you know, La France du déclin économique, démographique, militaire, diplomatique, politique et sociétal has been around for two centuries and counting.
and yet seems to prosper pretty well when left on her own, all things considered.
no, the elites cry "déclin" to mask the fact that they themselves, medias and political figures, are diminishing in power and influence. and who do they hold up as ideals? those they imagine are in the ascendant, the anglophone west.
one thing annoying about the greens i'll grant is this religious phobia they have about technology in the service of man. not all chemicals will cause the end of the world. nuclear energy is relatively clean, relatively inexpensive, safer than many alternative. transgenic agriculture is not necessarily the harbinger of the end of mankind. so the malthusian comment is at least somewhat warranted as a metaphor. (this being said, one of my favorite guys to watch on tv is Noël Mamère.) Nil aon leigheas ar an ngra ach posadh
