Using a wide array of data, researchers have determined that the year-on-year emissions drop of 8.8 per cent was the largest in modern history. — winhorse / IStock.com pic via AFP
Using data including hourly electricity production, vehicle traffic from more than 400 cities worldwide, daily passenger flights and monthly production and consumption figures, they determined that the year-on-year emissions drop of 8.8 per cent was the largest in modern history. Zhu Liu from the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing said the study was the most accurate yet undertaken on the pandemic's effect on emissions.
In April, when restrictions on movement and workplaces were at their height, total emissions dropped a whopping 16.9 per cent compared with the same month in 2019. The authors of yesterday's study agreed with the writers of similar research released in August claiming that the 2020 emissions dip was unlikely to ease the climate emergency in the long term.
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