In fact, new data from the International Energy Agency show that, in 2014, global CO2 emissions did not rise, suggesting that efforts to mitigate climate change may already be having a more significant effect than previously thought. This is particularly notable because the recent pause in emissions growth, unlike the other three that have occurred in the last 40 years, occurred amid economic expansion at a respectable annual rate of 3%.
这一结果大大有利于全球减排。事实上国际能源署的新数据表明，2014年全球二氧化碳排放量没有增加，这表明减轻气候变化的努力可能正在产生比以往所认为的更大的效果。这一点尤其令人瞩目，因为最近的排放停止增长与过去40年中所发生过的三次不同，它是在经济扩张仍能达到相当出色的3%的年率的情况下实现的。