In 2025, global addiction to fossil fuels continues to increase CO2 emissions

Two years ago, at COP28 in Dubai, the international community committed to a “gradual exit from fossil fuels”. Yet countries are struggling to escape addiction, in a stormy geopolitical context. Even though COP30 has just started in Belém (Brazil), the trends remain the same: gas, oil and coal emissions, which represent 90% of the CO2 produced by human activity, continue to reach record levels. They will still grow at a sustainable rate of 1.1% in 2025, exactly the same as in 2024, according to preliminary estimates published earlier on Thursday, November 13 on the journal’s website. Earth System Science Data. This