{"id":352485,"date":"2020-05-21T11:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T06:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=352485"},"modified":"2020-05-21T12:28:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T06:58:21","slug":"global-carbon-emissions-set-to-see-steepest-fall-since-world-war-ii-thanks-to-covid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-carbon-emissions-set-to-see-steepest-fall-since-world-war-ii-thanks-to-covid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Global carbon emissions set to see steepest fall since World War II, thanks to Covid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global carbon emissions are set to see their steepest fall this year since World War II, thanks to unprecedented lockdown measures enforced around the world to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, in its evaluation of the pandemic\u2019s effect on carbon missions, has predicted that emissions will fall between 4.2 and 7.5 per cent on last year, as against a rise of 1 per cent that was earlier predicted of 2020 before the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of a relative drop, you\u2019d have to go back to the first half of the last century, around WWII. Certainly, in modern times, this is an unprecedented drop,\u201d The New Scientist quoted Glen Peters of the research centre as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global carbon emissions are set to see their steepest fall this year since World War II, thanks to unprecedented lockdown measures enforced around the world to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. The Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, in its evaluation of the pandemic\u2019s effect on carbon missions, has predicted that emissions will fall between 4.2 and 7.5 per cent on last year, as against a rise of 1 per cent that was earlier predicted of 2020 before the COVID-19 outbreak. \u201cIn terms of a relative drop, you\u2019d have to go back to the first half of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}