A recent British study confirmed that greenhouse gas emissions in 2021 will increase by about 5%, and will return to the levels recorded before the start of the Corona virus pandemic.
Professor at the University of Exeter in the UK, Pierre Friedlingstein, said the increase in harmful emissions in the near future to the previous level indicates a return to the “old hydrocarbon economy”, and the research results were presented in the journal “Earth System Science Data”.
Friedlingstein and his colleagues emphasized that the main increase in emissions will come from four sources: the United States and the European Union, at 7.6% each, China and India, at 4% and 12.6%, respectively, and in other countries of the world, the indicators will not exceed the level of 2019.
The researcher stressed that “those investments in the green sector, which were included in the plans to restore the economies of many countries after the epidemic, were not serious to avoid a sharp increase in emissions.”
According to Friedlingstein and colleagues, the rapid return of emissions to previous levels raises questions about whether humanity will be able to maintain the global level of global warming at 1.5 °C by the end of the twenty-first century.
Earlier, the world’s leading countries agreed to “save the planet” at the end of the G-20 summit, and countries committed to limiting the rate of global warming, and it is planned to keep it at a level of 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the level before the epidemic.