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Harnessing Energy Efficiency to Overcome a Bleak World Energy Outlook
Last month the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its World Energy Outlook 2012 and unfortunately the world outlook is not so good. To be more precise, a key conclusion of the report is that “Taking all new developments and policies into account, the world is still failing to put the global energy system onto a more...[read more]
Beyond Oil: IEA Report Confirms Leading Role for Renewables
IEA's World Energy Outlook 2012 generated a flurry of stories about the prediction the U.S. will emerge as the world's leading oil producer by 2020. While it is important news, it is only one of several profound shifts occuring in global energy markets.Equally profound, though less reported, was the fundemental shift in...[read more]
Lowballing Carbon Dioxide Emissions Projections: IEA Edition
The International Energy Agency has released a new analysis that helps to demonstrate the systemic failure of policy analyses focused on carbon dioxide emissions reductions.In the new report the IEA projects that by 2030 the world will be emitting about 45 Gt (gigatonnes) of carbon dioxide. Yet, in 2008, just 4 years ago the IEA was...[read more]
Fossil-Fuel Subsidies: Why We Crunched The Numbers
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Something crucial was missing from the first-ever global inventory of tax breaks for oil companies and other fossil-fuel subsidies when the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released it last fall. The report detailed all the subtle and not-so-subtle supports for production and consumption of oil,...[read more]
International Energy Agency: Double Current Pace of Clean Energy Development
Climate-change skeptics like to call environmentalists “alarmists” because of their call for urgent action to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The skeptics say the science is too uncertain, that there’s no rush to act, and those who argue otherwise are sanctimonious lefties out of touch with reality.For them it’s drill baby, drill.It’s a...[read more]
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“It certainly has been a very big deal. But on the other hand . . . oil is still up near $100/barrel. All these cornucopian stories that have been coming out for nearly a year now have promised cheap oil but it remains relatively expensive. And the steep decline rates of the Bakken wells will start hitting us soon. So I think the shale oil has been hyped a bit too ...”
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