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Greenhouse gas emissions from energy production are just months away from blowing past the level they hit before the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily reduced demand, the International Agency warns in an analysis released this week.
“New figures from the global energy watchdog found that fossil fuel emissions climbed steadily over the second half of the year as major economies began to recover,” The Guardian reports. “By December 2020, carbon emissions were 2% higher than in the same month the year before.”
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The numbers mean that “we are putting the historic opportunity to make 2019 the definitive peak of global emissions at risk,” said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol. “If in the next few months governments do not put the right clean energy policies in place, we may well be returning to our carbon-intensive business as usual.”