CO2 emissions remain steady

This graph from the report "No growth in total global CO2 emissions in 2009", published yesterday by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), leaves me profoundly depressed.

It shows that in the industrialised countries, CO2 emissions went down thanks to the economic crisis. At the same time, it increased quite a bit in the developing economies. Result of this sum is a steady state over 2009 - this is so not the decline we had hoped for!

Every time I work myself up towards a little optimism, something like this comes and kicks my feet from under me.

We are not going to beat this thing, are we.