GHG Rebound From COVID Pandemic Nearly Complete; Coal & Gas Emissions Higher Now Than In 2019
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Emissions from burning coal and natural gas reached even higher levels in 2021 than in 2019, scientists found. The leading cause of the surge was economic growth in China — the world’s top emitter, which gets the bulk of its energy from coal. India, another coal-dependent country, likewise saw a spike in emissions as its economy restarted.
Planet-warming pollution also grew 7.6 percent in the United States and the European Union, the second- and third-biggest sources of greenhouse gases. By the end of the year, total emissions from these regions are expected to be just a few percentage points below their pre-pandemic levels.
Despite some small signs of progress — renewable energy sources continued to grow, and the amount of carbon being taken up by restored forests and revitalized soils has increased — “all the emissions are back on their long-term trajectories,” Le Quere said. “This is a reality check,” she added, for anyone hoped that a year of historic social and economic upheaval would shake humanity out of its fossil fuel dependency.
The scattered corporate commitments and modest investments included in covid-19 economic recovery packages were not sufficient to put the world on a more sustainable path. Nor do the voluntary pledges countries have submitted under the Paris accord add up to the reductions required. To have even a 50 percent chance of hitting that ambitious target, the world must immediately start cutting carbon dioxide emissions by about 1.4 gigatons per year, the equivalent of planting about 21 billion trees annually.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/11/03/global-carbon-budget-cop26/