Global carbon emissions are set to get back close to the levels they were at before Covid.
Dr Glen Peters, from the Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, Norway, said: "What many of us were thinking in 2020 - including me - was more of a recovery spread out over a few years, as opposed to a big hitch in 2021.
The 16th annual Global Carbon Budget report was compiled by more than 94 authors who analysed economic data and information on emissions from land activities, such as forestry.It shows that, if we continue along as we are and don't cut emissions, there's a 50% likelihood of reaching the 1.5C of warming in about 11 years. This concurs with the findings in a recent UN reportProf Corinne Le Quéré, from the University of East Anglia, said: "To limit climate change to 1.
Dr Peters said commentators should remember that, while China is responsible for nearly 30% of global carbon emissions, that left another 70% for the rest of the world to tackle. "China is doing very well on many dimensions: it's deploying solar, it's deploying wind, electric buses, electric vehicles, and so there's lots of positive things going on in China," Dr Peters explained. "But unfortunately, the stimulus packages often tend to focus on industrial sectors - construction, steel, cement. This requires coal.
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