G20 per capita CO2 emissions from coal rise 7% from 2015, research shows (www.reuters.com)

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G20 countries account for 80% of world power sector emissions, with per capita CO2 from coal power at 1.6 tons last year, up from 1.5 tons in 2015 and significantly higher than a global average of 1.1 tons, Ember said.

Is this from EVs or more powerful phones? I don't understand the cause of this. Any ideas?

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[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Who's fault is that? Most of the West got massive emissions reductions on paper by switching from coal to natural gas... A resource that China and India don't have so readily accessible.

I say on paper because methane leakage in the extraction and transportation of natural gas can exceed the GHG emissions of actually burning natural gas for energy.

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