{"id":326,"date":"2022-09-16T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T08:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:58:56","slug":"4-24-emissions-and-growth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/endnotes\/what-weve-done-about-it\/4-24-emissions-and-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"4.24 Emissions and Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"notes\">\n<p class=\"author\"><a href=\"\/contributors#nicholas-stern\" rel=\"author\">Nicholas Stern<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">All online sources accessed on <time datetime=\"2022-05-12\">12 May 2022<\/time><\/p>\n<ol start=\"306\">\n<li>\n<p>\n<q>54 per cent higher in 2019 than in 1990<\/q> Olivier, J. G. J., and Peters, J. A. H. W., <cite><span class=\"book\">Trends in Global CO2 and Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 2020 Report<\/span><\/cite>, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, December 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbl.nl\/en\/publications\/trends-in-global-co2-and-total-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2020-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbl.nl\/en\/publications\/trends-in-global-co2-and-total-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2020-report<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<q>the global economy increased by about 120 per cent<\/q> World Bank, <cite>\u2018GDP (current US$)\u2019<\/cite>, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<q>80 per cent of the world\u2019s energy in 2019 was from fossil fuels<\/q> International Energy Agency, <cite><span class=\"book\">World Energy Outlook 2021<\/span><\/cite>, October 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/world-energy-outlook-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/world-energy-outlook-2021<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<q>annual emissions produced by the UK fell by 44 per cent<\/q> Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Affairs, <cite>\u2018Final UK greenhouse gas emissions national statistics: 1990 to 2020\u2019<\/cite>, 1 February 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/final-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-1990-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/final-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-1990-to-2020<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<q>its economy grew by 78 per cent<\/q> Office for National Statistics, <cite>\u2018Gross domestic product: chained volume measures: seasonally adjusted \u00a3m\u2019<\/cite>, 12 May 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/economy\/grossdomesticproductgdp\/timeseries\/abmi\/pn2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/economy\/grossdomesticproductgdp\/timeseries\/abmi\/pn2<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<q>the reduction would be much smaller (around 15 per cent)<\/q> Climate Change Committee, <cite><span class=\"book\">Progress in Reducing Emissions: 2021 Report to Parliament<\/span><\/cite>, June 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theccc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Progress-in-reducing-emissions-2021-Report-to-Parliament.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theccc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Progress-in-reducing-emissions-2021-Report-to-Parliament.pdf<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Stern All online sources accessed on 12 May 2022 54 per cent higher in 2019 than in 1990 Olivier, J. G. J., and Peters, J. A. H. W., Trends in Global CO2 and Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 2020 Report, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, December 2020, https:\/\/www.pbl.nl\/en\/publications\/trends-in-global-co2-and-total-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2020-report. the global economy increased by about 120&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":148,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-essay.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}