Author: J.A.H.W. Peters

Trends in global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions

by J.G.J. Olivier, K.M. Schure, J.A.H.W. Peters | Oct 20, 2017

This latest report by Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research concludes that in 2016, total global greenhouse gas emissions continued to increase by about 0.5% reaching 49.3 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent…Read more

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