The BBC is reporting that global carbon emissions fell by 1.3% in 2009.
The recession is being blamed for the fall in the industrialised nations, but those big falls were offset by developing countries like India and China.
Two things spring to mind.
Firstly, when are we going to stop calling India and particularly China "developing"?
Secondly, there is a small strain of green activists that welcomed the recession as a way to push down emissions. This clearly hasn't worked on a global scale, and locally will only turn people against you as you try to keep them "depressed" (in both meanings of the word).
These are the figures given in the BBC article, but there's no link to all of the countries yet:
China +8%
India +6.2%
Germany -7%
UK -8.6%
Japan -11.8%
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