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post  IEA: Global CO2 emissions up by 1.0 Gt (3.2%) in 2011 to
record high  24 May 2012   The “450 Scenario” of the IEA’s World
Energy Outlook 2011, which sets out an energy pathway consistent
with a 50% chance of limiting the increase in the average global
temperature to 2 °C, requires CO2 emissions to peak at 32.6 Gt
no later than 2017, i.e. just 1.0 Gt above 2011 levels.  The 450
Scenario sees a decoupling of CO2 emissions from global GDP, but
much still needs to be done to reach that goal as the rate of
growth in CO2 emissions in 2011 exceeded that of global GDP, the
IEA noted.   —IEA Chief Economist Fatih Birol  In 2011, a 6.1%
increase in CO2 emissions in countries outside the OECD was only
partly offset by a 0.6% reduction in emissions inside the OECD.
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