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Carbon Emissions Turned Back 10 Years
Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=54316"><span class="small">Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, YES! Magazine</span></a>   
Monday, 11 May 2020 12:53

Loeffelholz writes: "Data show coronavirus countermeasures have resulted in a record drop in fossil-fuel demand and created an opening for a clean-energy transition."

Carbon emissions. (photo: unknown)
Carbon emissions. (photo: unknown)


Carbon Emissions Turned Back 10 Years

By Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, YES! Magazine

11 May 20

 

he early months of 2020 have offered a glimpse of a world with less demand for fossil fuels as it tries to contain the coronavirus pandemic. It is a world in which renewable energy makes up a greater share of energy use, and carbon emissions are turned back to levels from a decade ago. Researchers at the Paris-based International Energy Agency, which last week released its Global Energy Review 2020, say any lasting effects “will be determined by the duration of lockdown measures and the recovery paths taken.” 


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