The planet received some good news on Monday amid gloom over possible climate change policies of US President-elect Donald Trump.
Tech Times reported that worldwide carbon emission levels did not increase in 2015, and was consistently flat for the third year in a row in 2016, said researchers at the Global Carbon Project and the University of East Anglia.
The report said that carbon dioxide emissions and fossil fuels are said to increase at a negligible 0.2 percent in 2016 from 2015 levels.
This year is the third in a row that carbon emission levels have changed negligibly, and that worldwide emissions flattened to 36.4 billion metric tons.
According to Engadget, the Paris agreement and the Marrakesh plan of action are two global initiative encouraging countries to decrease their carbon output and help to decrease CO2 emissions.
But the progress could be rendered moot if Donald Trump, the newly elected president of the USA, decides to reject climate change, as he always has.
Trump reportedly wanted to shut down crucial government projects that are tailor made to decrease the US carbon footprint. Trump might pull out of the Paris agreement and disband the environmental protection agency.
Such actions would lead to the US producing billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere than the country did under President Obama.
Tech times reported that the big surprise is that the slowdown is caused by China, and scientists have attributed it to the decrease in the consumption of coal in the country, which is a big source of carbon dioxide emissions.
China's climate change policies have become the most effective force since it produces most of the emissions, a whopping 30 percent.
Researchers claim that China's energy statistics are wrought with inconsistencies, but if the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses can change and give good results, then the impact on climate change would be massive.
