Industrialised world's greenhouse gas emissions rising "The emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from Europe, Japan, the United States and other highly industrialized countries could grow by 17% from 2000 to 2010, despite domestic measures currently in place to limit them, according to a new United Nations report released yesterday.
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Developed countries saw their combined emissions actually fall during the 1990s, by three percent, due to a 37% decline in transition country (ed. former East Bloc) emissions. They thus met the Climate Change Convention's intermediate aim of keeping the group's overall emissions at 1990 levels in 2000.
But greenhouse gas emissions in the highly industrialized countries rose by 8 percent during that period. The European Union's total emissions decreased by 3.5% from 1990 to 2000, with individual member States vaying between a decrease of 19% and an increase of 35%. Emissions increased in most other highly industrialized countries, including New Zealand (5%), Japan (11%), United States (14%), Australia (18%) and Canada (20%)."
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