New data shows that global man-made greenhouse gas emissions increased 15% between 2000 and 2005, representing a sharp jump in the rate of emissions growth, which was 3% for the period 1990-1995 and 6% between 1995 and 2000.
Global annual emissions of greenhouse gases increased from 24 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalents in 1970 to 33 billion tonnes in 1990 and 41 billion in 2005.
A total of 560 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases were released into the atmosphere between 1990 (the reference year of the Kyoto Protocol) and 2005.
According to the Joint Research Centre (JRC - EC) press release, although carbon dioxide showed the largest growth of 18% between 2000-2005, global anthropogenic emissions of methane and nitrous oxide also increased considerably (by 11% and 6% respectively), while emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases increased by as much as 40%.
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