Global Coal Use , Set to Reach , Record High in 2022.<br />ABC News reports that on December 16, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that coal use across the world <br />is on track to reach a new record in 2022. .<br />The news comes amid consistently <br />high demand for the fossil fuel. .<br />According to the Paris-based agency, while <br />coal use only grew by 1.2% in 2022, the increase <br />pushed utilization of the fossil fuel to an all-time high.<br />8 billion metric tons of coal, were burned in 2022, beating <br />the previous record set in 2013.<br />The world’s coal consumption will remain <br />at similar levels in the following years <br />in the absence of stronger efforts to <br />accelerate the transition to clean energy, International Energy Agency, via ABC News.<br />According to the agency, high demand <br />in emerging Asian economies is likely to <br />offset any decline in use by mature markets. .<br />This means coal will continue to be <br />the global energy system’s largest single <br />source of carbon dioxide emissions by far, International Energy Agency, via ABC News.<br />According to the IEA, higher prices <br />for natural gas have driven the increased <br />reliance on coal for generating power.<br />The world is close to a peak in fossil fuel use, <br />with coal set to be the first to decline, <br />but we are not there yet, Keisuke Sadamori, International Energy Agency's <br />director of energy markets and security, via ABC News.<br />China, the world's biggest consumer of coal, said recently <br />that it plans to boost coal use through 2025 in order to <br />avoid a repeat of widespread power shortages that occurred in 2021.
