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title: "Pandemic to drive carbon emissions down 6% this year: WMO"
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# Pandemic to drive carbon emissions down 6% this year: WMO

> GENEVA, April 22 (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic is expected to drive carbon dioxide emissions down 6% this year, the head of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday, in what would be the biggest yearly drop since World War Two.

By Reuters · Published 22 April 2020, 15:49 SAST

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"This crisis has had an impact on the emissions of greenhouse gases," WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas told a virtual briefing in Geneva.

"We estimate that there is going to be a 6% drop in carbon emissions this year because of the lack of emissions from transportation and industrial energy production." (Reporting by Emma Farge; editing by Jason Neely)