{"id":103272,"date":"2024-11-16T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/?p=103272"},"modified":"2024-11-15T09:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T08:56:37","slug":"fossil-fuel-co2-emissions-increase-again-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/en\/science\/fossil-fuel-co2-emissions-increase-again-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil fuel CO2 emissions increase again in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024, according to new research by the Global Carbon Project science team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2024 Global Carbon Budget projects fossil carbon dioxide (CO2<\/sub>) emissions of 37.4 billion tonnes, up 0.8% from 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the urgent need to cut emissions to slow climate change, the researchers say there is still \u201cno sign\u201d that the world has reached a peak in fossil CO2<\/sub> emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With projected emissions from land-use change (such as deforestation) of 4.2 billion tonnes, total CO2<\/sub> emissions are projected to be 41.6 billion tonnes in 2024, up from 40.6 billion tonnes last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last 10 years, fossil CO2<\/sub> emissions have risen while land-use change CO2<\/sub> emissions have declined on average \u2013 leaving overall emissions roughly level over that period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, both fossil and land-use change CO2<\/sub> emissions are set to rise, with drought conditions exacerbating emissions from deforestation and forest degradation fires during the El Ni\u00f1o climate event of 2023-2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With over 40 billion tonnes released each year at present, the level of CO2<\/sub> in the atmosphere continues to rise \u2013 driving increasingly dangerous global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research team included the University of Exeter, the University of East Anglia (UEA), CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Alfred-Wegener-Institut and 80 other institutions around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly dramatic, yet we still see no sign that burning of fossil fuels has peaked,\u201d said Professor Pierre Friedlingstein, of Exeter\u2019s Global Systems Institute<\/a>, who led the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTime is running out to meet the Paris Agreement goals \u2013 and world leaders meeting at COP29 must bring about rapid and deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions to give us a chance of staying well below 2\u00b0C warming above pre-industrial levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Corinne Le Qu\u00e9r\u00e9, Royal Society Research Professor at UEA\u2019s School of Environmental Sciences, said: \u201cDespite another rise in global emissions this year, the latest data shows evidence of widespread climate action, with the growing penetration of renewables and electric cars displacing fossil fuels, and decreasing deforestation emissions in the past decades confirmed for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Glen Peters, of the CICERO Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, said: \u201cThere are many signs of positive progress at the country level, and a feeling that a peak in global fossil CO2<\/sub> emissions is imminent, but the global peak remains elusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClimate action is a collective problem, and while gradual emission reductions are occurring in some countries, increases continue in others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProgress in all countries needs to accelerate fast enough to put global emissions on a downward trajectory towards net zero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Friedlingstein added: \u201cUntil we reach net zero CO2<\/sub> emissions globally, world temperatures will continue to rise and cause increasingly severe impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other key findings from the 2024 Global Carbon Budget include:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n