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ENERGY:  The price of our development?

CURRENT BALANCE SHEET : Source Wikipedia

"Global marketed energy production in 2019 was, according to BP, 584.9  Exajoules , up 12.1% since 2009. It was broken down into 33.1% petroleum, 27.0% coal, 24.2% natural gas, 4.3% nuclear and 11.5% '' renewable energies (hydroelectricity 6.5%, wind power 2.2%, biomass and geothermal energy 1.0%, solar 1.1%, agrofuels 0.7%). 

Since the  industrial revolution , energy consumption has continued to increase. It has increased by 109% in 44 years, from 1973 to 2017 (final consumption). The  final consumption  world energy amounted in 2017, according to the International Energy Agency, to 9,717 Mtoe, of which 19% in the form of electricity; since 1990, it has grown a little faster than the population, but its distribution by energy source has hardly changed: the share of fossil fuels has fallen by 0.5 points, but their domination remains massive: 81.8 %; the share of renewable energies (RE) only increased by 0.8 points, from 15.5% in 1990 to 16.3% in 2017, because the decline in the share of biomass partly offsets the increase in other renewables Its breakdown by sector was: industry 29%, transport 29%, residential 21%, tertiary 8%, agriculture and fishing 2%, non-energy uses (chemicals, etc.) 9%.

Globally, emissions of  carbon dioxide  (CO2) due to energy in 2017 are estimated by the IEA at 32,840 Mt, up 112% since 1973, of which 44.2% produced by coal, 34.6% by oil and 20.5% % by natural gas; by sector in 2013, 37% came from industry, 23% from transport, 17% from households (housing) and 15% from services and agriculture. CO2 emissions per capita in 2017 are estimated at 4.37 tonnes in the world, 14.61 tonnes in the United States, 8.70 tonnes in Germany, 4.56 tonnes in France, 6.68 tonnes in China, 1 , 61 tonnes in India and 0.94 tonnes in Africa.

Within the framework of  international climate negotiations , all countries have pledged to keep the temperature rise below + 2 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era. To achieve this result, we must globally refrain from extracting a third of the oil reserves, half of the gas reserves and more than 80% of the coal available in the world's subsoil, by 2050. According to the IEA, the individual commitments of countries to  2015 Paris Conference on Climate Change  (COP21) are largely insufficient: they would only slow the progression of CO2 emissions and lead to a rise in temperatures of + 2.7 ° C in 2100. "(Wikipedia source)

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