Carbon dioxide emissions in OECD countries have risen by 7.8 per cent this
decade, according to new calculations by the World Energy Council. The findings
have alarmed climatologists because industrialised countries agreed in 1992 to
stabilise their output of the greenhouse gas at 1990 levels by 2000.
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