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4.24 As Emissões e o Crescimento

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  1. em 2019 foram 54% mais elevadas do que em 1990 Olivier, J. G. J., e Peters, J. A. H. W., Trends in Global CO2 and Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 2020 Report, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, de Dezembro de 2020, https://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/trends-in-global-co2-and-total-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2020-report.

    a economia mundial cresceu cerca de 120% Banco Mundial, ‘GDP (current US$)’, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD.

    em 2019, 80% da energia mundial teve origem em combustíveis fósseis Agência Internacional de Energia, World Energy Outlook 2021, de Outubro de 2021, https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2021.

    as emissões anuais do Reino Unido caíram 44% Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Affairs, ‘Final UK greenhouse gas emissions national statistics: 1990 to 2020’, 1 de Fevereiro de 2022, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/final-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-1990-to-2020.

    a economia cresceu 78% Office for National Statistics, ‘Gross domestic product: chained volume measures: seasonally adjusted £m’, 12 de Maio de 2022, https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/abmi/pn2.

    a redução seria muito menor (cerca de 15%) Climate Change Committee, Progress in Reducing Emissions: 2021 Report to Parliament, de Junho de 2021, https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Progress-in-reducing-emissions-2021-Report-to-Parliament.pdf.