2024 Fossil Fuel Emissions Are Headed for a Record

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "When you put the whole global sum together, fossil fuels are still winning," Dr. Peters said.
56% : Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are on track to reach a record 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024, a 0.8 percent increase over 2023 levels, according to new data from the Global Carbon Project.
56% : "At last year's climate talks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, representatives from nearly every nation approved a pact that called for "transitioning away from fossil fuels" and accelerating climate action this decade.
54% : In the United States, carbon dioxide emissions are expected to drop modestly this year, by around 0.6 percent.
48% : One year after world leaders made a splashy promise to shift away from fossil fuels, countries are burning more oil, natural gas and coal than ever before, researchers said this week.
46% : "Solar and wind is displacing fossil fuels in some countries, but then you have other countries where the economies are growing too strongly for renewables to keep up," said Glen Peters, a senior researcher at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research in Oslo and one of the authors of the report.
45% : That's a notable shift from the past few decades, when China was building hundreds of coal plants to fuel breakneck growth and carbon dioxide emissions were rising sharply each year.

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