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Fri 03 Mar 2009Downturn 'could halve carbon emissions'
CLIMATE CONFERENCE:THE CURRENT economic downturn could result in carbon emissions worldwide falling by as much as 40 to 50 per cent if the slump persists for several years, according to Cambridge University economist Dr Terry Barker.
Dr Barker, who is director of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Research, said the Great Depression in the 1930s had reduced emissions by 35 per cent globally because so many factories had closed down, particularly in the United States.
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