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World energy consumption to rise by 36pct

10 November 2010 08:50 (UTC +04:00)

Baku - APA-Economics. The World Energy Outlook by the International Energy Agency predicted that global energy consumption is expected to continue to rise until 2035, but growth of greenhouse gas emissions will likely slow down on international efforts to fight climate change, SteelGuru reported.
The report said that global energy consumption will shoot up 36% in 2035 from that of 2008. it said that "The global consumption of primary energy will increase 1.2% annually until 2035 due to a steep rise of demand by large developing nations, such as China, that are not yet members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.â€
The report said that the world’s use of fossil fuel, however, will drop to 55% of all its energy use in 2035 from 68% in 2008 while renewable energy will make up 33% of the total consumption of primary energy, up from 19% in 2008.
Global greenhouse gas emissions, which result in global warming, are predicted to jump 28% in 2035 from 2008.
The report said that international efforts to fight climate change will help slow down the increase of greenhouse gas emissions, but that will not be enough to reverse global warming or achieve what global leaders agreed to do in Copenhagen last year.
Leaders at the Copenhagen Climate Summit agreed to a set of measures they said will help limit the rise of global temperatures by 2035 to 2 degrees Celsius.