CO2 reduction and economic growth: Can they go hand-in-hand?

Fearing a trade-off with economic growth, countries feel discouraged to cut their CO2 emissions. But do the two really not go together? Environmental scientist Ranran Wang and her colleagues investigated the relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions in 73 countries from 1970 to 2016. Wang: “We also identified mechanisms by which countries drove down their CO2 emissions, especially during economic growth.”


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Source: Phys.org