"Trends in current supply and consumption are clearly unsustainable - environmentally, economically and socially. They can and should be changed, "warns Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency. Cautioning against voltage expected due to the accelerated decline of deposits and the increase in demand - it will bring into production the equivalent of six Saudi Arabia to 2030 - he believes that "the era of cheap oil is complete. "On the part of the fight against global warming, challenges will lie ahead not less. Although OECD countries reduced their emissions to nothing, the limit of 450 ppm CO2e would still be exceeded. Excerpts from last Agency report, here are the facts, figures and tables describing the magnitude of the task.
International Energy Agency, November 12, 2008
"We can not let the financial crisis and economic delay political action urgently needed to ensure security of energy supply and reduce the increase emissions of greenhouse gas emissions. We must make a global revolution in the field of energy, consisting of improved energy efficiency and increasing implementation of low-carbon energy, "said Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IEA) in London to mark the presentation of the "World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2008" - the new edition of the publication of the agency that provides a prospective table on energy issues.
Projections
In the baseline scenario of the WEO-2008, which assumes the continuation of current government policies:
the global primary energy demand grows by 1.6% per year on average between 2006 and 2030 - an increase of 45%. Figure lower than expected last year, mainly due to the impact of the economic downturn, the prospect of higher prices and new policy initiatives.
Oil demand increases by 85 million barrels per day currently to 106 mb / d in 2030 - Or 10 mb / d less than expected last year.
Coal demand increases more than any other source of energy in absolute terms, accounting for more than a third of the increase in energy consumption.
Modern renewables grow faster than the gas to become the second largest source of electricity soon after 2010.
China and India account for over half of the increase of energy demand by 2030 while the Middle East is a new and consuming region.
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