Vice President Mike Pence claimed in Wednesday’s Vice Presidential debate that “the United States still has lower CO2 emissions than the countries in the Paris Climate Accord, but we did it through innovation and we did it through natural gas and fracking.” ”
The United States’ carbon emissions have been steadily declining over the past few years, with the EPA reporting at the end of 2018 that “national greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced by 10%.” Carbon emissions formed most of the greenhouse gas emissions. Using 201, when the deal began, as a baseline, it appears that emissions have increased, according to EPA data, from 51.24 million metric tons in 2001 to 6777 million metric tons in 2018. Although the EPA has not finalized the data for 2019 yet, the International Energy Agency reports that the United States’ carbon emissions have fallen by 1 million million metric tons, more than in 2016 but considering the general downward trend of US carbon emissions. Keeping.
In terms of reducing crude carbon emissions, the United States is ahead of every other country in the rest of the world. In the Paris Agreement, many countries have seen a reduction in emissions or have not reduced their emissions at all. Canada, for example, saw a sharp decline in its emissions in 2007, but has seen a slow but steady increase in emissions since 2009 and has almost returned to 2005 levels of greenhouse gas emissions. China has also seen its carbon emissions rise.
While the United States lags behind other countries that support the Paris Agreement when it comes to reductions Percentage. For example, the European Union is expected to exceed its 20% reduction targets since 1990, and has seen a steady decline in carbon emissions since joining the Paris Agreement. The United States, on the other hand, is above its 1990 levels of greenhouse emissions, and since 2007 its emissions have declined, only a 10 percent decline.
Pence’s claim is partly correct: the United States ‘carbon emissions fell in 2007, and the United States’ emissions reductions have surpassed all other countries in terms of the Paris Agreement in terms of raw emissions. However, many individual countries have seen a reduction in their carbon emissions at a faster rate than the United States.
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