Energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide have stabilised, for now
But the capacity of the Amazon to absorb the gas is falling
IS IT A peak, a stutter or just a brief pause? Time will tell. But whatever it is, on February 11th the International Energy Agency (IEA), an intergovernmental organisation which collects such data, announced that emissions of carbon dioxide in 2019 which were related to energy had remained the same (33.3bn tonnes) as the previous year’s.
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