Scientists reported that the world this year pumped more carbon dioxide into the air because of increased pollution from China and India.
The world in 2023 increased its annual emissions by 398 million metric tons, but it was in three places: China, India and the skies. China’s fossil fuel emissions went up 458 million metric tons from last year, India’s went up 233 million metric tons and aviation emissions increased 145 million metric tons.
Outside of India and China, the rest of the world’s fossil fuel emissions went down by 419 million metric tons, led by Europe’s 205 million metric ton drop and a decrease of 154 million metric tons in the United States.
Something about this categorization scheme of country, country, industry kinda irritates me. I understand aviation is a touch harder to pin down to this or that country, but not impossible or anything.
The by-country pisses me off in its entirety. It's nothing but a continuation of the fossils efforts to divide and finger point. If the fossils hadn't spent the last 50 years delaying and hamstringing renewable investment and R&D, the developing world could have skipped fossils entirely. Don't let the fossils weaponise xenophobia to shift the blame. They are the reason for the climate crisis and the reason China and India are still increasing their GHG output.
Absolutely. It is literally the main argument that climate denialist parties in Sweden make. Idiots claim that we shouldn't do anything to reduce our carbon emissions in Sweden, because it's countries like India and China that emit all the CO2.
They conveniently ignore the fact that the average Swede emits twice or more as much CO2 than the average Indian. That's also ignoring stuff like exported carbon emissions.
If every nation thinks that climate change is somebody else's problem, then we're all going to burn. If you can reduce your carbon emissions sustainably, you need to do it now.
Or use ghg emissions per capita or per gdp, or per industrial physical output. Just throwing around the top level numbers don't tell you anything and can be twisted to whatever you want.
So if we put aside the fact that some amount of GHG must be emitted to lift a country out of poverty, you are saying that you would put blame on lobbyists rather than on corrupt politicians? ...
Considering a very similar article was recently posted here with “China, US, and India” instead of “China, India, and aviation”, methinks there be some fuckery happening…
The increase was reported early Tuesday at international climate talks, where global officials are trying to cut emissions by 43% by 2030.
Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees is “just possible’’ but only barely and with massive emission cuts, said Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman Jim Skea.
If China and India were excluded from the count, world carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacturing would have dropped, Friedlingstein said.
The world in 2023 increased its annual emissions by 398 million metric tons, but it was in three places: China, India and the skies.
Last year the world’s carbon emissions increased but dropped in China, which was still affected by a second wave of pandemic restrictions.
This year, China’s 4% jump in emissions is similar to the post-pandemic recovery other parts of the world had in 2022, Friedlingstein said.
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