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Mint Climate Tracker: It takes a pandemic
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The world’s carbon emissions, as well as India’s have dipped by record levels. It’s ironic that it took a pandemic for this to happen It’s deeply ironical that it took an emergency to make a (momentary dent) in another emergency.
Firmly in the grip of a pandemic that seems to have no end date in sight, the world’s CO2 emissions are in line to fall by record levels this year.
The International Energy Agency’s Global Energy Review 2020, which was published at the end of last month, forecast that the global carbon emissions are going to fall by 8% in 2020.
That comes to a decrease of about 2.6 gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2 equivalents, to a level that was last observed 10 years ago. In comparison, the last big drop in emissions was in 2009, in the
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