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Meteorological Administration · The World Meteorological Organization publishes the ‘Annual Report on Greenhouse Gases’
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The global concentration of carbon dioxide reached another high last year. Although global economic activity has slowed considerably due to the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), it is also predicted that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will not change significantly.
The Meteorological Administration and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released the ‘Annual Greenhouse Gas Report’ on the 23rd and announced that the global concentration of carbon dioxide last year was 410.5 ppm, an increase of 2, 6 ppm since 2018 (407.9 ppm), which continues to record a record. The carbon dioxide concentration of 410.5 ppm is 48% higher than the concentration of 1750 before industrialization.
The average concentration of carbon dioxide on the Korean peninsula last year, measured by the National Institute of Meteorology in Anmyeon-do, was 417.9 ppm, about 7.4 ppm higher than the world average. The increase compared to 2018 was 2.7 ppm, similar to the world average.
Furthermore, according to the Meteorological Administration, ‘radiative forcing’, which means the power to cause climate change, has increased by 45% since 1990. When looking at greenhouse gases that affect radiative forcing by type, carbon dioxide Carbon (66%) occupied the highest proportion. Then methane and nitrogen dioxide accounted for 16% and 7%, respectively.
Although economic activity around the world has contracted due to Corona 19, the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions is expected to be negligible. The WMO said that while global carbon dioxide emission decreased by 4-7% during corona propagation, it expected to reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by just 0.23 ppm from 0.08 ppm. .
Furthermore, the WMO urged that “given that the climate impact of GHG reduction appears several decades later, the faster we make efforts to reduce GHG emissions, the faster we can reduce the warming effect.”
Meteorological Administration Director Park Kwang-seok also said: “There is a desperate need to control anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide.
/ Reporter Kim Tae-young [email protected]
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