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IEA warns of coal’s comeback in energy mix by 2030

11/12/2007
China and India are expected to continue using coal as a major source of energy supplies, which would greatly increase the world’s carbon emissions, with drastic consequences for climate change, the International Energy Agency warned in a bleak picture looking at energy supply and demand until 2030.In absolute terms, coal demand is forecast to soar by 73% during 2005-30, with China and India representing over four fifths of the increase in its use to 2030, according to World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2007—China and India Insights. Currently the two nations account for 45% of world coal use.Fatih Birol, IEA’s chief economist, told reporters Nov. 7 in London that the growth in c...
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