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Have carbon emissions decreased enough to actually matter in this time?
by Loeffelmann 5y ago
Have carbon emissions decreased enough to actually matter in this time?
- dleslie 5y agoYes, significantly, and almost entirely a result of individuals no longer using their cars. Note these studies took place at various different times during the lockdown, and focus on different scopes of data: https://pcc.uw.edu/blog/research/how-did-covid-19-affect-our-carbon-emissions/ https://pcc.uw.edu/blog/research/how-did-covid-19-affect-our... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0797-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0797-x https://earth.stanford.edu/news/covid-lockdown-causes-record-drop-carbon-emissions-2020#gs.8054tu https://earth.stanford.edu/news/covid-lockdown-causes-record...
- skinkestek 5y ago> Global CO2 emissions declined by 5.8% in 2020, or almost 2 Gt CO2 – the largest ever decline and almost five times greater than the 2009 decline that followed the global financial crisis. CO2 emissions fell further than energy demand in 2020 owing to the pandemic hitting demand for oil and coal harder than other energy sources while renewables increased. Despite the decline in 2020, global energy-related CO2 emissions remained at 31.5 Gt, which contributed to CO2 reaching its highest ever average annual concentration in the atmosphere of 412.5 parts per million in 2020 – around 50% higher than when the industrial revolution began. https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2021/co2-emissions https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2021/co2-em...