Part Four / What We’ve Done About It

4.6 The Rise of Renewables

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  1. For 200 years, global CO2 emissions have grown Stoddard, I., et al., ‘Three decades of climate mitigation: why haven’t we bent the global emissions curve?’, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 46, 2021: 653–89, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104.

    now at the highest level since the 1950s Ibid.

    In the world’s high-income countries, CO2 emissions are falling Friedlingstein, P., et al., ‘Global carbon budget 2021’, Earth System Science Data, 14 (4), 2022: 1917–2005, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1917-2022.