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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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EU fossil fuel CO2 emissions hit 60-year low | Fossil emissions ‘finally back to 1960s levels’, say analysts, but they warn levels are still falling too slowly (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Last year was also good for a lot of new climate legislation on EU level. The big once were a sales ban of fossil fuel cars by 2035 and a second emissions trading scheme for transport and heating. Also the current emissions trading scheme has had certificates removed in the coming years.

Lets see how it will continue to go, but as it stands the EU is 1t above global per capita CO2 emissions. That is going to create some interesting dynamics in climate policy, with the EU gaining a bit more credibility.