By Brady Dennis
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (click here) have reached the highest levels on record, scientists projected today, in the latest evidence of the chasm between international goals for combating climate change and what countries are actually doing.
Between 2014 and 2016, emissions remained largely flat, leading to hopes that the world was beginning to turn a corner. Those hopes have been dashed. In 2017, global emissions grew 1.6 per cent. The rise in 2018 is projected to be 2.7 per cent.
The expected increase, which would bring fossil fuel and industrial emissions to a record high of 37.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, is being driven by nearly 5 per cent emissions growth in China and more than 6 per cent in India, researchers estimated, along with growth in many other nations throughout the world.
Emissions by the United States grew 2.5 per cent, while emissions by the European Union declined by just under 1 per cent....
