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COP23: Announced global increase in CO2 emissions
The rise comes from the burning of fossil fuels, levels will grow by 2% in 2017. This Wednesday, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron stressed that the biggest polluters should help poor and vulnerable countries to cope with the effects of global warming.
According to the Global Carbon Budget, called in English Carbon Budget Project, produced annually by about 80 scientists from 15 countries and will be published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, global CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will grow by 2 % in 2017, after three stagnant years, mainly due to the greater use of coal in China. The authors of the report made the presentation at the Bonn climate summit (COP23).
Its main conclusion is that this year it will close with 37,000 million tons of carbon dioxide more in the atmosphere. If to that figure are added the rest of CO2 emissions caused by other activities such as deforestation, 2017 would be worth 41 billion tons more CO2. However, the figure of growth of emissions in China (3.5% after two stabilized years) is lower than the increase in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) forecast for 2017 by 6.8%.
The study also foresees that India's gases will grow by 2%, a figure lower than the average increase in emissions of this country in the last decade (6%) and lower than the forecast of the growth of its GDP, of a 6.7% The United States, however, will reduce its emissions by 0.4% in 2017, slightly less than the average of 1.2% that it has been reducing in the last decade, but also against a 2.2% increase in GDP expected for this year.
For its part, the European Union (EU) will lower its emissions this year by 0.2%, lower than the average annual decrease of 2.2% in the last decade, in which the increase in its GDP was 2, 3 %. Scientists calculate that emissions from the remaining countries, which account for around 40% of global gases, will increase around 2.3% in 2017.
On Wednesday, the German Chancellor and the French president highlighted at the Climate Summit in Bonn that the biggest polluters should help poor and vulnerable countries to cope with the effects of global warming. "Opportunities for innovation have to be for everyone, and especially for the poorest," said Merkel, who renewed Germany's commitment to mobilize along with other rich countries 100 billion dollars a year of private and public capital as agreed in Paris.
The French head of state invited a summit on December 12 in Paris in which the financing of measures will be specified. "In Paris we can and mobilize public and private funds with a specific plan," he said about the meeting.
"We all know that December 12 in Paris is a magical date and therefore this conference will surely be successful," Merkel praised. The date coincides with the same day two years ago when the Climate Agreement that bears the name of the French capital was closed.