{"id":16835,"date":"2023-12-15T10:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=16835"},"modified":"2023-12-15T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:45:38","slug":"world-coal-consumption-to-hit-record-high-in-2023-says-iea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/12\/world-coal-consumption-to-hit-record-high-in-2023-says-iea\/","title":{"rendered":"World coal consumption to hit record high in 2023, says IEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The International Energy Agency (IEA) has said that it is expected that global coal use will hit a record high in 2023, fueled by strong demand in emerging and developing economies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The demand for coal is seen rising 1.4 percent in 2023, surpassing 8.5 billion tonnes for the first time as usage in India is expected to grow 8 percent and that in China up 5 percent due to rising electricity demand and weak hydropower output, IEA said in a report released on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Coal is the largest energy-related source of the CO2 emissions responsible along with other greenhouse gases for global warming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Half of the world\u2019s coal use comes from China, the agency said, so the outlook for coal will be significantly affected in the coming years by the pace of clean energy deployment, weather conditions, and structural shifts in the Chinese economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Coal use is set to drop by about 20 percent this year in both the European Union and the United States, the report said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The agency said it was difficult to forecast demand in Russia, currently the fourth-largest coal consumer, because of the continuing conflict in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, the IEA noted that overall coal use is not expected to drop until 2026, when the major expansion of renewable capacity in the next three years should help lower usage by 2.3 percent compared with 2023 levels, even with the absence of stronger clean energy policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Global consumption is forecast to remain well over 8 billion tonnes in 2026, the report said. To reach goals set by the Paris Climate Agreement \u2013 reached in 2015 by governments who agreed to phase out fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy in the second half of the century \u2013 the use of unabated coal would need to fall significantly faster, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">At the United Nations COP28 climate talks in Dubai this week, world leaders agreed <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">to a deal that would, for the first time, push nations to transition away from fossil fuels to avert the worst effects of climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, the agreement did not go so far as to seek a \u201cphase-out\u201d of fossil fuels, for which more than 100 nations had pleaded. Rather, it called for \u201ctransitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe absence of explicit \u2018phase-out\u2019 language in the draft is significant, as it is a more measurable and definitive term, sending a strong message globally about a total shift away from fossil fuels,\u201d Harjeet Singh, head of global political strategy at Climate Action Network International, told Al Jazeera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The International Energy Agency (IEA) has said that it is expected that global coal use will hit a record high in 2023, fueled by strong demand in emerging and developing economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,194,982,30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-world","category-international","category-environment","category-headline"],"views":70,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16839,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835\/revisions\/16839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}