Fossil fuel use and emissions hit record highs as world struggles with deadly heat, storms and fires

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(CNN) — The world consumed record amounts of oil, coal and gas last year, pushing planet-heating carbon pollution to a new high, according to a report published Thursday, shattering climate scientists’ hopes that global energy emissions may have peaked. The growth in fossil fuels drove a 2.

The report paints a bleak picture of a world struggling to wean itself off planet-warming fossil fuels even as the impacts of the climate crisis become more intense.A coal-fired thermal power plant on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, in India in March 2022. last year, pushing planet-heating carbon pollution to a new high, according to a report published Thursday, shattering climate scientists’ hopes that global energy emissions may have peaked.

A woman uses an umbrella to shade herself from the sun in the Queens borough of New York City on June 18. The city is under an extreme heat alert. Overall,the proportion of fossil fuels in the 2023 global energy mix remained largely the same at 81.5%, down just 0.5% from the previous year.India’s fossil fuel consumption was up 8% last year and, for the first time ever, the country used more coal than Europe and North America, combined.

 

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