Global carbon dioxide emissions -2024

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Global carbon dioxide emissions -2024

Why in news?

• According to a peer-reviewed report by a scientist, the collective has found that carbon emissions are set to rise 0.8% in 2024 since last year. This islower than the 1.2% rise in 2023, over 2022.

Important point:

• In 2023, the largest absolute contributions to global fossil CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions were from China (31%), the United States (13%), India (8%), and the EU 27 (7%).
• India’s contribution to go up 4.6%,in 2023 as compared to 2022.
• These four regions account for 59% of global fossil CO2 emissions, while the rest of the world contributed 41%.
• EU-27 represents 27 of the most economically developed European countries.