Carbon Emissions This Year Will Reach An All-Time High, Study Says

A new report from the Global Carbon Budget shows that global carbon dioxide emissions are on track to rise by 2.7 percent in 2018, a spike that will bring emissions to an all-time high, according to CNN.

Reducing carbon emissions is the central mission of the Paris Agreement. Carbon emissions have created the current climate change Earth is experiencing, and many recent reports say that rising temperatures will have deadly consequences on human life in a matter of years.

The Global Carbon Project is an international research project. According to their findings, the current rise in CO2 emissions is due to an increase in coal use around the world. In relation to the Paris Agreement, these findings are pretty grim.

“Global emissions need to peak well before 2030 to meet either of the Paris goals,” says lead researcher Corinne Le Quere.