The crisis slows global warming.

The volume of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide will decrease by 3% in 2009 because of the economic crisis. It will be a very sharp decline over the past 40 years.
Annual emissions grew by an average of the same 3%, reports AFP.


Environmentalists from the International Energy Agency believe that the global crisis has given the world a unique opportunity to limit the growth of atmospheric temperature by 2 degrees Celsius.


It means that mankind has the chance to make a real step towards clean energy, but only on condition that countries will choose the correct policy. Experts also point out that each year of delay adds $ 500 billion to the amount of investment, which would require the energy sector in 2010-2030. Meanwhile, scientists working in the UN Environment Program (UNEP), argue that by the end of the century the Earth's temperature will soar by nearly 3 degrees, even if all nations agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their claimed amounts.


Warming will occur primarily through the fault of developing countries which have no money for alternative energy. "Contribution" of China alone will amount 1 degree.