A 2.3 percent jump in global energy demand in 2018 outstripped expansion of renewables and drove record-high greenhouse gas emissions - IEA
An aerial view shows the newly arrived foundation platform of Leviathan natural gas field, in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Haifa, Israel. January 31, 2019.
"We have seen an extraordinary increase in global energy demand in 2018, growing at its fastest pace this decade," said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol. CO2 emissions in 2018 from coal used to generate power surpassed 10 billion tonnes for the first time, Birol said. Another discouraging trend given efforts to tame global warming was a slowdown last year in energy efficiency gains to 1.3 percent, only half the average improvement rate for the 2014-2017 period.
Demand for electricity – which the IEA has called the "fuel of the future" – grew by a brisk four percent, accounting for half of the overall growth in primary energy demand.
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