Global fossil fuel emissions to hit new record - study

Global fossil fuel emissions are set to hit a new high in 2025, according to research that also warns curbing warming under 1.5C would now be essentially "impossible". The annual Global Carbon Budget report looks at humanity's emissions of planet-heating CO2 from burning hydrocarbons, cement production and land use - like deforestation. It relates the figures to the warming thresholds outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement. An international team of scientists found that CO2 emissions from fossil f