{"id":77512,"date":"2021-01-04T13:56:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T13:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=77512"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:56:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T13:56:35","slug":"after-century-growth-have-carbon-emissions-reached-their-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/after-century-growth-have-carbon-emissions-reached-their-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"After a Century of Growth, Have Carbon Emissions Reached Their Peak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">In late March, approximately&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/more-people-under-lockdown-than-alive-during-world-war-ii-2020-3?r=US&amp;IR=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a third of the world\u2019s population<\/a>&nbsp;found themselves under some kind of stay-at-home order due to COVID-19. The effects were dramatic: Virtually overnight, bumper-to-bumper traffic gave way to empty roads; bustling airports became echoing ghost towns; retail stores and restaurants closed their doors and turned off the lights. And some started wondering whether the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 and the abrupt halt in all those normal, fossil fuel\u2013burning activities of life \u2014 would have a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/climate\/coronavirus-could-cause-the-first-big-emissions-drop-in-a-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lasting effect<\/a>&nbsp;on the overheating planet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Now, as 2020 draws to a close, scientists have an answer \u2014 of a sort. According to the latest data from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/essd.copernicus.org\/articles\/12\/3269\/2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Carbon Project<\/a>, worldwide carbon dioxide emissions declined by around 7 percent this year, or 2.4 billion metric tons. That\u2019s roughly equivalent to all of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/articles\/investing\/092915\/5-countries-produce-most-carbon-dioxide-co2.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India\u2019s CO2 emissions<\/a>in a normal year, and is the biggest absolute drop in emissions&nbsp;<em>ever<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">In late March, approximately&nbsp;a third of the world\u2019s population&nbsp;found themselves under some kind of stay-at-home order due to COVID-19. 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