The world cut its daily carbon dioxide emissions by 17 per cent at the peak of the pandemic shutdown last month, a new study found.
KENSINGTON, MD. -- The world cut its daily carbon dioxide emissions by 17% at the peak of the pandemic shutdown last month, a new study found.
For a week in April, the United States cut its carbon dioxide levels by about one-third. China, the world's biggest emitter of heat-trapping gases, sliced its carbon pollution by nearly a quarter in February, according to a study Tuesday in the journal Nature Climate Change. India and Europe cut emissions by 26% and 27% respectively.
"It's like you have a bath filled with water and you're turning off the tap for 10 seconds," she said. "That underscores a simple truth: Individual behaviour alone ... won't get us there," Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann, who wasn't part of the study, said in an email. "We need fundamental structural change."
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