Pandemic to drive carbon emissions down six percent this year: WMO

The coronavirus pandemic is expected to drive carbon dioxide emissions down six percent this year, the head of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday, in what would be the biggest yearly drop since World War II.

"This crisis has had an impact on the emissions of greenhouse gases," WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas told a virtual briefing in Geneva.

"We estimate that there is going to be a 6 percent drop in carbon emissions this year because of the lack of emissions from transportation and industrial energy production."

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Source(s): Reuters