Manya Rathore
Research expert covering India
Climate change in China - statistics & facts
The global carbon dioxide emissions per capita had generally increased from 4.16 metric tons to 4.7 metric tons in 2019, with fluctuations in between. Along with other greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, scientists reported an increase in surface temperature of the planet at around 0.9 Celsius degrees warmer in 2020 than the average in the twentieth century. While some countries experienced increasingly warm weather, the climate in some other countries became more extreme, with example in terms of higher frequency of natural catastrophes. The Americas and Asia were the continents that bore 88 percent of the economic damage caused by natural disasters in 2020.
