A new report, by a research consortium called the Global Carbon Project (GCP) says that in 2007 China has surged past the USA to become the largest global emitter of CO2 gas.
The GCP said CO2 emissions last year were the equivalent to almost 10 billion tonnes of carbon. Of that 8.5 billion tonnes of carbon was produced by burning fossil fuels.
The other of 1.5 billion tonnes almost all come from Tropical deforestation with Latin America and Asia each accounting for 600 million tonnes and Africa 300 million.
The report demonstrates why Australia & New Zealand rushing into an Emissions Trading Scheme which will seriously damage our economies and export competitiveness without similar schemes in China, USA, India & Russia is an exercise in futility.
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The biggest increase in emissions has taken place in developing countries, largely in China and India, while developed countries have been growing slowly.
The largest regional shift was that China passed the U.S. in 2006 to become the largest CO2 emitter, and India will soon overtake Russia to become the third largest emitter. Currently, more than half of the global emissions come from less developed countries.
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Global Emissions for 2007 show the top 4 emitting nations accounted for 50% (4.25 billion tonnes) of all CO2 emitted from burning fossil fuel.
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1. China emitted 1.8 billion tonnes of carbon
2. USA emitted 1.59 billion tonnes.
3. Russia emitted 432 million tonnes,
4. India emitted 430 million.
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This increase brought the atmospheric CO2 concentration to 383 ppm in 2007, 37% above the concentration at the start of the industrial revolution (about 280 ppm in 1750).
The report goes on to say the present concentration is the highest during the last 650,000 years and probably during the last 20 million years.
Yet the planet hasn’t warmed in the last 10 years. Whats going on?
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Tags: China, CO2, Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS, Global Carbon Project, India, Russia, USA
