) growth has increased 35 per cent faster than expected since 2000, October 23 A team of scientists from the University of East Anglia, the Global Carbon Project and the British Antarctic Survey have found that inefficiency in the use of fossil fuels increased levels of CO2 by 17 percent, while the other 18 percent came from the decline in the efficiency of natural land and ocean sinks which soak up CO2 from the atmosphere. “The decline in global sink efficiency suggests stabilisation of atmospheric CO2 emissions were up to 9.9 billion tons of C