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Understanding CO2 emissions from the global energy sector [1]

The energy sector contributes about 40 percent of global emissions of CO2. Three quarters of those emissions come from six major economies. Although coal-fired plants account for just 40 percent of world energy production, they were
responsible for more than 70 percent of energy-sector emissions in 2010. Despite improvements in some countries, the global CO2 emission factor for energy generation has hardly changed over the last 20 years.

Publication Date: 
04/03/2014
The World Bank [2]
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide [3], Energy [4], Green House Gases [5], Carbon Intensity [6], Coal [7], India [8], Global [9], Renewable Energy [10]

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