M a r c h  2 0 1 9 — Volume 27, Issue 03

GENI-us Letter 2019-03

2018 IEA Report: Our Addiction To Coal And Natural Gas Is Growing

Dear GENI Friend,

Working to alter the energy path of our planet is hard. Every year the International Energy Agency publishes the World Energy Outlook — and the reality of our fossil-fuel addiction is evidenced by these statistics. Last year global energy demand grew at 2.3%, its fastest pace this decade, with coal and natural gas providing 70% of this growth.

Change in primary energy demand Mtoe, 2016-2040The projections for the coming decades offer a bifurcated future to 2040.

The US, EU and Japan energy demand will shrink from increased energy efficiencies. While the energy demand of the rest of the world will skyrocket to meet their development goals. All people want lighting, refrigeration, transportation and telecommunications — which require energy. If done with fossil fuels, we will all feel the dire consequences of enhanced climate change: stronger storms, increasing heat/droughts and sea level rise.

Is this our fate or can we change course? The Paris Agreement goals and Marrakech Climate Action plans provided every nation with a renewable energy mandate and a national action strategy. If we don’t change course now, we are likely to end up where we are headed.

In Partnership for the Planet,

Peter MeisenGENI's 25th Anniversary Seal -- 1987-2012
Peter Meisen, President

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