Guardian: Have global emissions begun a 'permanent slowdown'? Are we on the verge, finally, of tackling climate change? Those are the tantalising questions posed by the latest round of global CO2 figures released by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC).
According to the new report, after a decade of growing at a hair-raising 2.9% per year, the growth rate in CO2 from fossil fuels and industrial processes has dropped to 1.4%, or just...