A goose flies over a coal-fired power station in Boxberg, Germany, in January. Germany's Structural Coal Commission recommends the country should quit coal latest by 2038 in order to meet its emissions targets. – EPA pic, March 26, 2019.
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 said today 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.
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