{"id":5212,"date":"2020-05-20T15:44:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2020-05-21T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:58:59","slug":"global-carbon-emissions-continue-to-drop-due-to-covid-19-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/global-carbon-emissions-continue-to-drop-due-to-covid-19-lockdowns\/5212\/","title":{"rendered":"Global carbon emissions continue to drop due to COVID-19 lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"
A new study, published in Nature Climate Change<\/em><\/a>, shows that daily carbon emissions have decreased by 17%. A 17 million tonne reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide<\/a>\u00a0has seen emissions drop to levels that were last observed in 2006.<\/p>\n A team of researchers found that emissions from surface transport<\/a> account for 43% of the decrease in global emissions and a further 43% of this reduction is due to low industry activity. Although aviation<\/a> is the economic sector most impacted by the lockdown, the industry has seen minimal reduction in emission.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, due to people being at home more often, residential emissions will marginally offset the reduced carbon emission from global industries. In individual countries, emissions have decreased by 26% on average at the peak of their confinement.<\/p>\n Co-author Professor Pierre Friedlingstein, of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter<\/a>, said: \u201cTo limit warming below 1.5\u00b0C, global emissions need to decline by about 7% per year over the coming decade. Although the current crisis is definitely not the way we wish to achieve such reductions, it illustrates that changes in personal behaviour, such as more home working and less travel, do have a direct impact on CO2 emissions.\u201d<\/p>\nThe impact of reduced transport and industry<\/h3>\n
Further analysis of emission data<\/h3>\n