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Global carbon emissions hit record high 1.4% on growing energy demand

Goddey Odin

Goddey Odin is  Businessamlive content writer.
You can contact him on goddey.odin@businessamlive.com with stories and commentary.

March 22, 20181.1K views0 comments


Global energy-related carbon emissions rose in 2017 for the first time in three years, the International Energy Agency said Thursday, proof that the world’s efforts to fight climate change are falling short.

Global energy demand rose by 2.1 percent last year to 14,050 million tonnes of oil equivalent, more than twice the previous year’s rate, boosted by strong economic growth, according to preliminary estimates from the IEA.

Some 70 percent of those additional needs were met by fossil fuels oil, gas, and coal, pushing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions up by 1.4 percent, after three years of remaining flat.

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The rest was covered mostly by renewables.

Fatih Birol, IEA Executive Director said in a statement that “The significant growth in global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2017 tells us that current efforts to combat climate change are far from sufficient,”

“For example, there has been a dramatic slowdown in the rate of improvement in global energy efficiency as policymakers have put less focus in this area,” he said.

But the overall increase in CO2 emissions masked major improvements in some individual countries, including the United States, a big polluter.

In fact, the US saw the biggest drop in emissions, helped by a higher deployment of renewables.

Emissions also declined in Britain, Mexico, and Japan, the IEA said.

The 29-nation IEA provides analysis on global energy markets and advocates policies enhancing the reliability, affordability and sustainability of energy.

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