Source: Good News Network
An exciting new study shows that efforts to cut CO2 and tackle climate change in developed countries including the UK and US are beginning to pay off.
Eighteen countries so far have demonstrated how concerted policies and action on energy efficiency, renewables, and climate targets can work.
The study from the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests that policies supporting renewable energy and energy efficiency are helping to reduce emissions in 18 developed economies. The group of countries, which includes the UK, US, France and Germany, represents 28% of global emissions.
The research team analyzed the reasons behind changes in CO2 emissions in countries where emissions declined significantly between 2005 and 2015. The findings, published in Nature Climate Change, show that the fall in CO2 emissions was mainly due to renewable energy replacing fossil fuels and to decreasing energy use.
Not surprisingly, countries where CO2 emissions decreased the most were those with the largest number of energy and climate policies in place.
The researchers compared countries with declining emissions with countries where emissions…
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