Source:
BP’s 2019
Statistical Review
of World Energy
SUMMARY:
The growth in carbon
dioxide emissions
from energy use
was +0.5% in 2019,
way down from
+2.1% growth in 2018,
and less than half the
ten-year average
growth rate of
+1.1% per year.
Slower energy
demand growth,
increased use
of renewables,
and natural gas
replacing coal,
helped reduce
the CO2 emissions
growth rate in 2019.
Due to the pandemic,
2020 CO2 emissions
are likely to be lower
than in 2019.
BP’s CEO
Bernard Looney
wrote that
getting to net zero
CO2 emissions
by 2050,
means the world
would need
2020-sized
reductions in
CO2 emissions
every other year,
for the next
25 years !
CHINA DETAILS:
China’s CO2
emissions
increased
by +3.4%
in 2019,
higher than
the ten-year
average
growth rate
of +2.6%
BP’s Statistical
Review of World
Energy showed
the fastest
growth rate
of Chinese
CO2 emissions
since 2011.
Chinese
CO2 emissions
accounted for
the single largest
share of global
CO2 emissions
in 2019 – 28.8%,
according to BP.
China was the key
driver of energy
consumption growth
last year.
China's coal capacity
surged in 2019, raising
the world’s net capacity
additions of coal-fired
power generation
for the first time
since 2015.
Earlier this year,
leading environmental
economist Lord Nicholas
Stern said that China
would be the key to the
global action to fight
CO2 emissions
and climate change.
According to Lord Stern,
China needs to reduce
its reliance on coal,
which continues to drive
CO2 emissions up,
despite their massive
building of renewable
energy sources.