{"id":445675,"date":"2021-10-27T11:49:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T06:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=445675"},"modified":"2021-10-27T12:51:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T07:21:43","slug":"greenhouse-gas-concentrations-hit-a-new-record-in-2020-says-un-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/greenhouse-gas-concentrations-hit-a-new-record-in-2020-says-un-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record in 2020, says UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Meteorological Organisation reported Monday that greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high last year and increased at a faster rate than the annual average for the last decade despite a temporary reduction during pandemic-related lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>In its annual report on heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the UN weather agency also pointed to signs of a worrying new development: Parts of the Amazon rainforest have gone from being a carbon \u201csink\u201d that sucks carbon dioxide from the air to a source of CO2 due to deforestation and reduced humidity in the region, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Meteorological Organisation reported Monday that greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high last year and increased at a faster rate than the annual average for the last decade despite a temporary reduction during pandemic-related lockdowns. In its annual report on heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the UN weather agency also pointed to signs of a worrying new development: Parts of the Amazon rainforest have gone from being a carbon \u201csink\u201d that sucks carbon dioxide from the air to a source of CO2 due to deforestation and reduced humidity in the region, it said.<\/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-445675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445675","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=445675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}