Worrying signs’ lockdown emissions reductions could be brief, says BP boss

Worrying signs’ lockdown emissions reductions could be brief, says BP boss

BP’s chief executive has raised concerns that the dramatic fall in carbon emissions seen last year may be “short lived”.

As Covid-19 plunged much of the world into lockdown in 2020, global emissions dropped by about 6.3%, a change that Bernard Looney said is “unmatched in modern peacetime”.

But despite the unprecedented fall, the largest since the end of World War 2, similar decreases will be needed every year for the next 30 years in order to meet the Paris Agreement.