{"id":9079,"date":"2020-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/2020\/02\/25\/global-energy-related-co2-emissions-flattened-out-in-2019\/"},"modified":"2020-02-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T00:00:00","slug":"global-energy-related-co2-emissions-flattened-out-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/2020\/02\/25\/global-energy-related-co2-emissions-flattened-out-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Global energy-related CO2 emissions flattened out in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the latest data published by the International Energy Agency (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"IEA (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">IEA<\/a>), in 2019 global energy-related CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0emissions flattened in 2019 at around 33 gigatonnes (Gt), following two years of increases and despite a global economic growth of around 2.9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This resulted mainly from a sharp decline in CO<sub>2\u00a0<\/sub>emissions from the power sector in advanced economies, thanks to the expanding role of renewable sources (mainly wind and solar PV), fuel switching from coal to natural gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In developing countries, on the other hand, CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions continue to grow, but at a constant rate. Almost 80% of this increase coming from Asia, where coal demand has continued to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously stopping the growth of emissions is not enough to face climate change: we need to start reducing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For further details, please click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/articles\/global-co2-emissions-in-2019?utm_content=buffer36f0f&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest data published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), in 2019 global energy-related CO2\u00a0emissions flattened in 2019 at around 33 gigatonnes (Gt), following two years of increases and despite a global economic growth of around 2.9%. This resulted mainly from a sharp decline in CO2\u00a0emissions from the power sector in advanced economies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8407\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}