Some grim news: global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry will rise around 3% in 2018, the fastest in 7 years, dashing any hope of a peak. I break down the details of the Global Carbon Project data over at @CarbonBrief: carbonbrief.org/analysis-fossi…. A few key takeaways: 1/5 
China led the world in emissions increases, with emissions rising by around 0.5 GtCO2 – or around 5% – between 2017 and 2018. Much of this was driven by government stimulus of the construction industry. 2/5
US emissions also rose, around 2.5%, driven by a cold winter and hot summer. This is despite near-record retirements of coal generation in the electric power sector. Thankfully, US emissions are likely to decline in 2019. 3/5
More broadly, while there is encouraging news from electricity generation – with coal on the decline and renewables rapidly expanding globally – emissions from transportation and industry continue to increase unabated. 2019 is expected to see another emissions rise. 4/5
Each year that emissions continue to increase make ambitious climate goals of limiting warming to well-below 2C or to 1.5C that much more difficult to achieve. 5/5
(Figure in the above tweet made by @robbie_andrew and featured in their new ERL paper: doi.org/10.1088/1748-9…)
