Greenhouse Gas Emissions Plunge in Response to Coronavirus Pandemic

InsideClimate News

After growing at the rate of 1 percent per year in the last decade, daily emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide suddenly plunged by as much as 17 percent globally in early April as the world responded to the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study shows. It’s the biggest single annual decline since World War II, but remains a drop in the bucket in the grander scheme of climate change, scientists warn.

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