2019 Preview: Renewable energy race to ramp up as oil use skyrockets

By | December 21, 2018
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Californian firefighters work to control the Carr Fire in July

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Early in the new year, if not sooner, the world will set a most unwelcome record. Global oil consumption will pass 100 million barrels per day for the first time – and keep climbing.

To have any chance of limiting warming to 1.5°C, greenhouse gas emissions need to start falling now, and fast, the latest UN climate report warned in October. But emissions are still increasing. They rose 3 per cent in 2018 and look set to keep rising in 2019.

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