How did global carbon dioxide emissions decline only by 6.4% in 2020 despite major global lockdowns and travel restrictions? What would have to happen for them to drop by say 50%?

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Source for the 6.4% number: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00090-3

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Shockingly to many ordinary people (although not to the large oil companies), consumers are actually not big contributors to emissions and climate change…it’s almost as if the whole “carbon footprint” thing [was made up by an oil company to make consumers blame themselves and not take action against big oil](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook).

This was brilliantly evidenced by the statistics you cite in your post, OP.