Emissions by industrialized countries of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming showed a “worrying” upward trend in the 2000–2004 period and state policies must be intensified to achieve further cuts, according to a United Nations report released.
Although the overall emissions by these countries dropped 3.3 per cent in the 1990–2004 period, this was mostly due to a 36.8 per cent decrease by economies in transition of eastern and central Europe (EITs), and the other industrialized Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) registered a 11 per cent increase.
“The worrying fact is that EITs, which were mostly responsible for the overall emissions reductions of industrialized countries so far, as a group have experienced an emission increase of 4.1 per cent in the period 2000-2004,” UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said at the launching of the report in Bonn, Germany.
“This means that industrialized countries will need to intensify their efforts to implement strong policies which reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” he added.
The report, Greenhouse Gas Data, 2006, constitutes the first complete set of data submitted by all 41 industrialized Parties. The United States, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is not a party.
Emission reductions are urgently required in the transport sector but they seem to be especially difficult to achieve, growing by 23.9 per cent from 1990 to 2004, the report noted.
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