2024-03-01T12:56:25+00:00
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/ The International Energy Agency announced on Friday a new record rise in carbon dioxide emissions last year, despite the Paris Agreement, which stipulates reducing it to achieve global climate goals, indicating that China and other countries that use fossil fuels contributed to this rise.
Scientists have warned that significant cuts in carbon dioxide emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, will be needed in the coming years if there is to be a will to achieve goals of limiting the global rise in temperatures and preventing runaway climate change, according to Sky News Arabia.
“Instead of declining rapidly, as required to meet global climate targets set out in the Paris Agreement, carbon dioxide emissions have reached a new record,” the International Energy Agency said in a report.
The agency’s analysis showed that global energy emissions rose by 410 million tonnes, or 1.1%, in 2023 to 37.4 billion tonnes.
The agency said in its report that the global expansion of clean technology such as wind and solar energy and the use of electric cars helped limit the increase in emissions, which reached 1.3% in 2022.
But she added that China’s economic recovery, increased fossil fuel use in countries with low hydropower production and a recovery in the aviation sector had led to an overall rise in emissions.
The report said that energy-related emissions in the United States fell by 4.1%, with the bulk of this decline coming from the electricity sector.
In the European Union, emissions from energy fell by almost 9% last year, driven by increased renewable energy generation and a decline in coal and gas generation.
The report also noted that energy-related emissions in China rose 5.2% as energy demand grew as the country recovered from COVID-19 lockdowns.