Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose Last Year. Here Are the Top 5 Reasons.<br />“The overall share of fossil fuels in global energy demand in 2017 remained at 81 percent,” the agency’s report said, “a level<br />that has remained stable for more than three decades despite strong growth in renewables.”<br />If the world wants to cut emissions quickly and meet the climate goals laid out in the Paris Agreement, the I. E.A.<br />For now, however, we’re still moving in the opposite direction: Carbon dioxide emissions from the use of coal, oil<br />and natural gas increased 1.4 percent globally in 2017 after holding steady for the previous three years, the International Energy Agency reported on Thursday.<br />China, which is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s industrial greenhouse gases, saw its emissions<br />rise 1.7 percent in 2017, fueled by rapid economic growth and an increase in oil and natural gas use.<br />That jump in Asian emissions overshadowed cuts made elsewhere in the world: The United States, for instance,<br />reduced its emissions 0.5 percent last year, driven by the growing deployment of renewable energy.<br />Over the past few years, coal demand has plummeted around the world as countries like the United States<br />and China shift away from the most carbon-intensive of all fossil fuels.
