A steep drop of 17% in human-generated CO2 worldwide was recorded in April 2020 compared to the daily average for 2019. Now the same amount of planet-heating pollution is being pumped out as it was in 2006. India's CO2 emissions fell 15% in March and 30% in April. However, it started slowing down by early 2019, much before the global lockdown halted most economic activities throughout the world