Scientists said Friday at the COP27 climate meeting in Egypt that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the primary cause of climate change, are on course to increase by 1% in 2022 to hit an all-time high.
The continued aviation recovery will certainly cause oil emissions to increase by more than 2% from the previous year, while coal emissions, which some belief peaked in 2014, will reach a new high.
Glen Peters, research director at the Norwegian CICERO climate research organization, told AFP that although coal and gas are more driven by the events in Ukraine, oil is more driven by the COVID rebound.
The first peer-reviewed forecasts for 2022 revealed that total global CO2 emissions, which include emissions from deforestation and land use, will peak at 40.6 billion tonnes, slightly shy of the record level in 2019.
The statistics indicated that the increase in carbon pollution from burning oil, gas, and coal is consistent with underlying trends, despite the wild cards of pandemic recovery and an energy crisis brought on by the war in Ukraine.
And quite troubling, according to Peters, a study co-author.
He stated that “emissions are currently 5% higher than they were when the Paris Agreement was signed” in 2015.
You must inquire, “When are they going down?”
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