Getting Serious About CO2 Emissions

Posted on | November 17, 2006 | Comments Off on Getting Serious About CO2 Emissions

Kyoto aside, developed world progress is poor-to-none when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions.

UN expert Yvo de Boer told The Wall Street Journal, “The rising trend is the worrisome part of it…”

Who’s at fault? Well the U.S., for one. But surprisingly, our 2004 numbers were up only 1.3% from 2000. In the same period the EU bumped up 2.4%. Greatest offenders? Spain (11.4%) and Austria (12.4%) Kudos to Germany and the UK (-.7% and -1%). It appears the rate of growth is slowing, but it’s still going up. To get it to turn down, the EU, the U.S. and Asia (notably China) will have to get serious pretty quick.