For some small island nations, limiting global warming is about survival, their delegations have told the COP26 climate summit.
In 2019, atmospheric CO2 concentrations hit levels not seen on Earth for more than 3 million years.
Smoke billows from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant, near Belchatow, Poland, on November 28, 2018.has seen policymakers from all over the world assemble in Glasgow, Scotland, to make commitments aimed at keeping the goals of the Paris Agreement alive. According to researchers at Our World in Data, global carbon emissions have been rapidly rising since the mid-20th century, peaking in 2019 before falling slightly last year. The organization's data shows that emissions continued to rise after the Paris Agreement came into force.The charts below compare CO2 emissions over time between some of the world's biggest polluters, as well as countries' share of annual global carbon emissions.
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