A steep drop in the use of coal to generate power led to the fall in emissions last year, a new study shows. Global carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector fell by 2 percent last year, the biggest fall since at least 1990, owing to reduced coal usage in Europe and the United States, according to a study published …
Global emissions have to start falling as soon as possible to meet the Paris goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius. This year’s U.N. climate negotiations in Madrid, the longest in 25 nearly annual such gatherings, ended Sunday with major polluters resisting calls to ramp up efforts to keep global warming at bay. While it wasn’t officially on the agenda, most participants …
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