Demand for SUVs a Major Contributor to the Increase in Global CO2 Emissions

Yale e360
Oct 29, 2019, 1:53 pm695 ptsHot
Growing demand for SUVs was the second largest contributor to the increase in global CO2 emissions from 2010 to 2018, an analysis has found. In that period, SUVs doubled their global market share from 17 percent to 39 percent and their annual emissions rose to more than 700 megatons of CO2, more than the yearly…

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