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In 2018, global commercial operations emitted 918 million tonnes (Mt) of CO 2, 2.4% of all CO 2 emissions: 747 Mt for passenger transport and 171 Mt for freight operations. [3] Between 1960 and 2018, CO 2 emissions increased 6.8 times from 152 to 1,034 million tonnes per year. [1] Emissions from flights rose by 32% between 2013 and 2018. [24]
A related phenomenon driven by climate change is woody plant encroachment, affecting up to 500 million hectares globally. [231] Climate change has contributed to the expansion of drier climate zones, such as the expansion of deserts in the subtropics. [232] The size and speed of global warming is making abrupt changes in ecosystems more likely ...
The 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as the Katowice Climate Change Conference or COP24, was the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. [ 1] It was held between 2 and 15 December 2018 at the International Congress Centre in Katowice, Poland.
WMO. UNEP. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. [ 1] The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) set up the IPCC in 1988.
Human activities — the way we heat our homes, fuel our cars and produce food — all contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, which is part of a process that causes the temperature of the planet ...
1.4–3.8 °C. Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report ( AR4) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was published in 2007 and is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information concerning climate change, its potential effects, and options for ...
This is a list of sovereign states and territories by carbon dioxide emissions[ n 1 ] due to certain forms of human activity, based on the EDGAR database created by European Commission and Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. The following table lists the 1970, 1990, 2005, 2017 and 2022 annual CO 2 emissions estimates (in kilotons of CO ...
The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C ( SR15) was published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on 8 October 2018. [ 1] The report, approved in Incheon, South Korea, includes over 6,000 scientific references, and was prepared by 91 authors from 40 countries. [ 1] In December 2015, the 2015 United Nations Climate ...