Carbon Dioxide Emissions 'Cut by Recession'

Written by Telegraph.co.uk
Friday, 13 November 2009
Article Source: Telegraph.co.uk Global greenhouse gas emissions will be 9 per cent below what they were expected to be in 2012 as a result of the recession, researchers said today. But the lower levels will delay by just 21 months the moment the world reaches the temperature rises predicted to cause ''dangerous'' climate change if ''business as usual'' emissions resume after economic recovery, they warned. The researchers at the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) centre for climate change economics and policy said that if the downturn deteriorates into a depression as bad as the one seen in the 1930s, emissions will be 23 per cent lower than they would have been without the recession. Learn more...

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