The sharp rise of carbon emissions from 2009 to 2010 - by nearly 6% - suggests that the global financial crisis has had little impact in slowing down the world's output of greenhouse gases, according to an analysis published on 4 December (G. P. Peters et al. Nature Climate Change 2011). The rise was mainly due to high emissions growth in a few key economies. China's emissions were up by 10.4%, India's by 9.4% and Brazil's by 11.6%. See go.nature.com/bvlgbj for more.
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