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Tuesday, 21 December 2010 06:12 |
AsiaViews, Edition: 34/VII/November2010
Category: ENVIRONMENT
Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels in 2009 dropped 1.3 percent worldwide from the year before to 30.8 billion tons, marking the first yearly decrease this century, a group of researchers said.
The scientists from Britain, the United States, France and elsewhere attributed the decline to the global financial crisis and economic downturn.
Japan posted an 11.8 percent drop, compared with declines of 8.6 percent for Britain, 8.4 percent for Russia, 7 percent for Germany and 6.9 percent for the United States.
But the rate rose in emerging economies. China marked an increase of 8 percent, while India's emissions were up 6.2 percent and South Korea saw a 1.4-percent increase, according to the report carried in the Nov. 21 online edition of the British journal Nature Geoscience.
But the group said the rate of decline was less than half the 2.8-percent fall predicted a year ago for 2009.
The Asahi Shimbun 23 November 2010
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