# Summary
- burned more coal fuel in 2023 than in 2022 (according to the Global Carbons Project)
- the average has slightly declined; India and China have faced proliferation, EU and the US are in the midst of a decline
- 36.8 billion tonnes of CO2 will be emitted at the end of 2023
- Emissions from deforestation and other land-use changes were also projected to have fallen slightly
- planting trees do not seem to make a big difference in emissions → not big contributor to change
- leaders of Cop28 will modify and adjust the Paris 2024 plan so it targets a goal that resonates with the current situation
- Pierre Friedlingstein, a climate scientist at the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute: “The impacts of climate change are evident all around us but action to reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuels remains painfully slow.
- more than 117 governments at the summit in Dubai agreed to triple the world’s renewable energy usage and double the rate of energy efficiency by 2030
- not enough action and immediate filtration to support the amount of fossil fuel used in warfare/rural underdeveloped nations
- technology to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere would have done almost nothing to stop global heating this year
# Conclusion
- The most affected people are the Paris Agreement 2024 participants. They originally expected a 1.5C increase in average temperature, but now that it turns out, their scientists underestimated it. The current expected temperatures are 2C to over. The indirectly affected people are the people who backed out of supporting countries to go eco-friendly with their energy and use sustainable energy,
- This event is important because it shows that the current initiatives estimated to surpass 3 trillion, (worth more than Apple) are not working and are doing nothing but maybe slowing down the pace of global warming.
- This article shows the current situation we are in. We have underestimated our emissions, and our new initiatives show little to no efficiency. In addition, we have spent billions of dollars in basically slowing down the increase rate, not much of any use,