Global carbon emissions set to rise in 2022 – IEA

World on course for 33.8bn t of CO₂ emissions this year, but major deployments of renewables and EVs have slowed rate of increase

The world is on track to emit 33.8bn t of CO₂ in 2022, a 300mn t increase on 2021, according to new IEA analysis. The agency estimates that the increase would have reached 1bn t were it not for major deployments of renewable power and electric vehicles this year. “The global energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a scramble by many countries to use other energy sources to replace the natural gas supplies that Russia has withheld from the market. The encouraging news is that solar and wind are filling much of the gap, with the uptick in coal appearing to be relatively small and temporary,” says IEA executive director Fatih Birol. “This means that CO₂ emissions ar