'Encouraging' low point for gas emissions
GREENHOUSE gas emissions by all the Group of Eight industrial nations – except Russia – fell in 2006 in the deepest dip since the world started trying to slow climate change in 1990, a new survey revealed yesterday.
Rising oil prices, some measures to curb global warming and a milder winter in the US in 2006, which depressed energy demand, all contributed to an overall 0.6 per cent dip in G8 emissions in 2006 from 2005. Michael Raupach, of the Earth Observation Centre in Australia, said that while the Reuters sur-vey results were "encouraging", far tougher action was needed to stabilise emissions to avert "dangerous" climate changes.
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