The carbon footprint of the average American is about 17.6 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents a year, about twice the footprint of a person living in the European Union or the United Kingdom, and almost 10 times that of the average Indian citizens 1.7 tons annually. Instead, nations would need to roughly triple their current emissions-cutting pledges to limit the Earths warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above the preindustrial average  a central aim of the Paris climate agreement. However, if all governments meet their 2050 net zero emissions targets, warming could be as low as 2.1C. We cannot go back to the old normal of inequality, injustice and heedless dominion over the Earth, he said. Last year saw the highest global emissions ever recorded, at 59 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, a category that includes not only the principal greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, but also methane and other climate-warming agents.
Last year saw the highest global emissions ever recorded, at 55 billion taxes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.
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