The Developed World Shows Dramatic Improvements in Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions/China Sets Ambitious Carbon Goals

Concern about carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and air quality are global. China’s rapid industrialization has led to massive air quality problems in its cities (and to water quality problems in many parts of the nation.) Other emerging nations continue to face similar challenges as they attempt to balance rapid expansion and sustainable development goals. Air quality can be so poor in New Delhi, India at times that it is difficult to see and challenging for airplanes to land. The looming industrialization of the continent of Africa will pose the same types of challenges. The International Energy Agency (IEA) publishes global reports on CO₂ emissions, those that result from fuel combustion. Since one of the IEA’s primary functions is to track global usage of such energy sources as oil and coal, it is reasonable for them to estimate the carbon output from those fuels. The situation in 2013 worsened, with the IEA reporting a rise in CO₂ emissions by 2.9% to 32.2 billion tons worldwide (the 2013 figure is the latest data available).

The good news was from developed nations such as America. In 2013, emissions in the developed world fell. In the U.S., for example, CO₂ emissions dropped by 15.7% (returning to the level in 1990), while all OECD countries dropped by 7.2%, according to the IEA. This decrease was in spite of higher populations, higher economic activity and greater numbers of cars, trucks and aircraft. America is making very significant progress in this regard thanks to the rapidly growing adoption of natural gas as an alternative to coal—a direct result of the discoveries of massive amounts of gas in shale fields.

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