{"id":117732,"date":"2020-12-29T01:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T09:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-causes-record-fall-in-fossil-fuel-emissions-in-2020"},"modified":"2020-12-29T01:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T09:22:18","slug":"coronavirus-causes-record-fall-in-fossil-fuel-emissions-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-causes-record-fall-in-fossil-fuel-emissions-in-2020","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus causes \u2018record fall\u2019 in fossil-fuel emissions in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coronavirus-causes-record-fall-in-fossil-fuel-emissions-in-20202.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude03 Well, at least fossil-fuel emissions went down.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel and industry are expected to drop by 7% in 2020, new analysis shows, as economies around the world feel the effects of Covid-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The latest estimates from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalcarbonproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Carbon Project<\/a> (GCP) suggest that these emissions will clock in at 34bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2) this year \u2013 a fall of 2.4GtCO2 compared to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This annual decline is the largest absolute drop in emissions ever recorded, the researchers say, and the largest relative fall since the second world war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude03 Well, at least fossil-fuel emissions went down. Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel and industry are expected to drop by 7% in 2020, new analysis shows, as economies around the world feel the effects of Covid-19 lockdowns. The latest estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP) suggest that these emissions will clock [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}