Carbon dioxide emissions continue to grow amidst slowly emerging climate policies

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 04 December 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0659-6

A failure to recognize the factors behind continued emissions growth could limit the world’s ability to shift to a pathway consistent with 1.5 °C or 2 °C of global warming. Continued support for low-carbon technologies needs to be combined with policies directed at phasing out the use of fossil fuels.