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No, the growth in global CO2 emissions has stalled in 2015
In 2015, global CO2 emissions have stalled, due to a 2% decline in global coal combustion.
In 2012, 2013 and 2014, global emissions increased on average by about 1.3%, about three times slower than in the preceding decade.
In 2015, CO2 emissions in China and the United States declined by 0.7% and 2.6%, respectively. Emissions in the Russian Federation and Japan also decreased, by respective 3.4% and 2.2%.
These increases were counterbalanced by increases in India of 5.1%, as well as in the European Union, which saw an increase of 1.3%, following four years of decreases.
No, after increasing up to and peaking in 2004, OECD emissions are now back at the 1990 level.
However, total emissions in other countries have continued to increase rapidly.
... and by December 2015, 188 parties have submitted their intended national determined climate actions (INDC)
188 parties submitted their INDCs for the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December
2015. These countries represented about 97% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2012.
Olivier JGJ, Janssens-Maenhout G, Muntean M and Peters JAHW (2016), Trends in global CO2 emissions; 2016 Report, The Hague: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency; Brussels: Joint Research Centre.
The PBL Climate Pledge INDC tool gives a summary of the greenhouse gas
emission reduction proposals (pledges), domestic policies of major countries
and regions and the impact on the emissions by 2030
