A report in www.newKerala.com says, “Between 2000 and 2004, worldwide CO2 emissions increased threefold compared to the 1990s, and the acceleration of emissions was greatest in the exploding economies of developing regions particularly China, even though they contributed only about 40% of total emissions, according to a new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The rate increased from 1.1 percent per year during the 1990s to 3.1 percent per year in the early 2000s, the study said.
The study also found that the accelerating growth rate was largely due to the increasing energy intensity of economic activity and the increase in population and in per-capita gross domestic product.
“No region is decarbonising its energy supply. Despite the scientific consensus that carbon emissions are affecting the world’s climate. we are not seeing evidence of progress in managing those emissions in either the developed or developing countries,” said Chris Field, director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology and co-author of the study.
“In many parts of the world, we are going backwards,” he said…”
