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Emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide stayed level in 2015 at 36.3 billion tons (GtCO2) and are projected to rise ‘only slightly,’ by 0.2% in 2016.

MARRAKESH, Morocco – Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels have been nearly flat for three years in a row – a “great help” but not enough to stave off dangerous global warming, a report said Monday, November 14.
Emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide stayed level in 2015 at 36.3 billion tons (GtCO2) and were projected to rise “only slightly”, by 0.2% in 2016, according to the annual Global Carbon Budget report compiled by teams of scientists from around the world.
“This third year of almost no growth in emissions is unprecedented at a time of strong economic growth,” said research leader Corinne Le Quere of the University of East Anglia.
Driven largely by reduced coal use in China, this was a “clear and unprecedented break”…