A miner works inside a coal mine in Novovolynsk, Ukraine. (Reuters pic)PARIS: A 2.3% jump in global energy demand last year outstripped the expansion of renewables and helped drive record-high greenhouse gas emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday.
Fossil fuels satisfied nearly 70% of that growth for the second year running, with natural gas accounting for 45% of the rise in energy consumption, according to the Agency’s Global Energy & CO2 Status Report.
Double-digit growth in solar and wind power generation – 31% for solar – was still not fast enough to meet soaring electricity demand that also pushed up …read more
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