Emissions start to fall despite economic growth

In a rare piece of good news on climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are projected to fall this year as the extraordinary growth in China's greenhouse gas pollution slows to a crawl.

As politicians from 195 countries work in Paris to cut planet warming emissions, the latest assessment by scientists from the Global Carbon Project found those from industrial activity and burning fuels such as coal and oil ground to a halt in 2014, growing by just 0.6 per cent.

This year they forecast a decline of 0.6 per cent.

Read Tom Arup’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Paris UN climate conference 2015: Emissions start to fall despite economic growth.”