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original post »Today, the International Energy Agency announced that carbon emissions have remained stable in the absence of an economic contraction for the first time in 40 years.
The IEA tracks emissions due to energy use; as such, factors like deforestation and concrete production could still have led to a small increase in emissions. Still, as far as energy is concerned, carbon dioxide emissions were the same in 2013 and 2014: 32.3 billion tonnes (each tonne is 1,000kg). This came despite the fact that the global economy expanded by a healthy 3 percent in 2014.
There were three previous instances where the IEA has seen falling emissions: the early 1980s, 1992, and 2009, all of which were associated with economic downturns.
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