PARIS (AFP) - the carbon dioxide emissions reached a record level last year, the International Energy Agency said Monday, prospects to limit the global temperature increase to two degrees Celsius dimming.
"Related to (the energy-carbon dioxide CO2) emissions in 2010 have been the highest in history, according to the latest estimates," the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a statement.
After a decline in 2009 caused by the global financial crisis, the emissions are estimated to climbed to a record 30.6 gigatonnes (Gt), a jump of five per cent of the previous year in 2008, when achieved levels 29.3 Gt, I said it.
In addition, the unions IEA considers that 80% of projected emissions in the electricity sector by 2020 are already locked, as they will come from power plants that are currently in place or under construction today.
"This significant increase in CO2 emissions and future emissions due to investments in infrastructure lock represent a serious setback to our hopes of limiting global temperature increase, to not more than two degrees C," said Fatih Birol, Chief Economist of the IEA.
World leaders agreed a target of limiting the temperature increase to two degrees C (3.6 ° Fahrenheit) in discussions on climate change of the United Nations in Cancun, Mexico last year.
To achieve this goal, the concentration in the long term of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere must be limited to about 450 parts per million of CO2 equivalent, only an increase of five percent from an estimate millionièmes 430 million in 2000.
The IEA calculated that in order to achieve this level, based on country emissions targets agreed to achieve by 2020, that global emissions related to energy in 2020 should not be greater than 32 gt.
The increase in emissions during the next few years, therefore, must be less than between 2009 and 2010 if the target must be reached, said IEA.
"Our latest estimates are an another wake-up call," Birol said. "The world has edged incredibly close to the level of emissions should not be achieved until 2020, the target of two degrees c is to be achieved."
"In view of the decline of the margin of manoeuvre in 2020, unless bold and decisive decisions are taken soon, it will be extremely difficult to succeed in this global objective agreed in Cancun."
While the nations committed themselves to Cancun to limit global warming to two degrees C, they agree to details on how to get there and tear evil on the future of the Kyoto Protocol, whose first series of emission reduction commitments expire at the end of next year.
"The challenge to improve and maintain the quality of life for people in all countries while limiting emissions of CO2 was never plu," said IEA.
Emerging countries have affected emissions limits can stop their growth and development, with only advanced countries able to afford the type of green technology that can enable them to maintain their standard of living all reduction of emissions.
The IEA believes that 40% of global emissions came from the club OECD in advanced countries in 2010, although these countries represent 25% of growth in emissions compared to 2009.
Countries not members of the OECD - led by China and the India - saw much higher increases in emissions as economic growth accelerated, said IEA.
However, on a per capita basis, OECD countries collectively emitted 10 tonnes, compared with 5.8 for China and 1.5 tonnes in India, added the Agency, the arm of the energy policy of the OECD.
