En ny rapport fra tænketanken Ember konkluderer, at selvom de fleste G20-lande afbrænder mindre kul per indbygger, på grund af overgangen til vedvarende energi, forbliver kulemissioner en udfordring for nogle.
Ifølge rapporten, er Australien og Sydkorea de største kuludledere per indbygger og har været det siden 2020. Selvom deres afbrænding af kul per indbygger er faldende, udleder de i gennemsnit tre gange mere kulforurening per indbygger end verdensgennemsnittet.
Rapporten konkluderer også, at kulemissioner i udviklingslande stiger, det gælder også for Kina hvor afbrænding af kul steg med 30% fra 2015 til 2022.
Fra rapporten: ”The speed of clean transition is not fast enough to help drive fossil phasedown and keep 1.5C within limit. (…) The G20 accounts for 80% of global emissions. Within the group, however, an individual’s coal emissions in 2022 were notably higher, with per capita figures reaching 1.6 tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared to the global average of 1.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide. With the nearing deadline to limit rise in global temperatures to 1.5C, G20 countries must be united in their efforts to triple renewables and plan for rapid and deep cuts in coal power generation.”
Dave Jones, Global Insights Lead hos Ember, udtaler: “China and India are often blamed as the world’s big coal power polluters. But when you take population into account, South Korea and Australia were the worst polluters still in 2022. As mature economies, they should be scaling up renewable electricity ambitiously and confidently enough to enable coal to be phased out by 2030.”
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