KEY POINTS
- Natural gas use is surging across the world and fossil fuel emissions are hitting records that are unsustainable for the planet.
- A global decline in coal emissions in 2019 was offset by an increase in oil and natural gas emissions across the world.
- “Any growth is more than we can afford right now,” says Rob Jackson, an Earth systems scientist at Stanford University and director of the Global Carbon Project.
A traffic policeman wearing a face mask directs in heavy smog on in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province of China.
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It’s been yet another decade of lost opportunity to act on climate change.
The planet’s average temperature has warmed over 1 degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, and is on pace to heat up by 1.5 degrees more within 20 years. The 2015 Paris Agreement to keep global temperature increases…
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