Tag: Carbon Emmission

CO2 emissions level off, still too high to save climate: report

by Mariëtte Le Roux MARRAKESH, Morocco (AFP) –Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels have been nearly flat for three years in a row — a “great help” but not enough to stave off dangerous global warming, a report said Monday. Emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide stayed level in 2015 at 36.3 billion tonnes (GtCO2) and were projected to rise “only slightly”, by 0.2 percent in 2016, according to the annual Global Carbon Budget report compiled […]