Online BusinessGlobal CO2 emissions could fall by 3% in 2009: IEA
Carbon dioxide emissions, the main driver of global warming, could fall three per cent worldwide in 2009 due to the global economic crisis, the International Energy Agency said today.
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This would be the steepest drop in CO2 emissions for 40 years, chief IEA economist Faith Birol said at a press conference in Bangkok, adding that the average annual growth in global carbon output until now has been three per cent.
Birol said this silver-lining drop in carbon pollution was a "unique window opportunity" for the the world to put itself on a path to limit the increase in global temperatures to two degrees, the scientific threshold for dangerous global warming.