{"id":72030,"date":"2019-04-05T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=72030"},"modified":"2019-04-05T12:33:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:33:26","slug":"global-energy-and-co2-status-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/global-energy-and-co2-status-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Energy and CO2 Status Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which of the following international organization recently released Global Energy and Carbon dioxide Status Report 2019? <\/strong><br>(a) International Solar Alliance <br>(b) International Energy Agency <br>(c) World Meteorological Organization <br>(d) Friends for the Earths <br><strong>Answer: (b) <br>Related facts: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">null<li>The\nIEA\u2019s second <strong>Global Energy and Carbon dioxide Status Report\n2019 <\/strong>is an annual report\ngiving an overview of recent global trends and developments across fuels,\nrenewable sources, and energy efficiency and carbon emissions, in 2018.<strong><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The global energy-related <strong>CO2 emissions rose 1.7% to a historic high of 33.1 Gt CO2 in 2018. <\/strong><\/li><li>While emissions from all fossil fuels increased, the <strong>power sector accounted for nearly two-thirds of emissions<\/strong> growth. <\/li><li><strong>Coal <\/strong>use in power surpassed <strong>10 Gt CO2<\/strong>. <strong>Asia. China, India, and the United States accounted for 85% of the net increase in emissions<\/strong> while the emissions declined for Germany, Japan, Mexico, France and the United Kingdom.<\/li><li>The increase in emissions took place <strong>due to increase in energy consumption<\/strong> resulting from a robust global economy and also due to weather conditions in some parts of the world that led to increased energy demand for heating and cooling.<\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>IEA, for the first time assessed the <strong>impact of fossil fuel use on global temperature increases<\/strong>. It found that CO2 emitted from coal combustion was responsible for over 0.3\u00b0C of the 1\u00b0C increase in global average annual surface temperatures above pre-industrial levels. With this <strong>coal<\/strong> becomes the <strong>single largest source of global temperature increase.<\/strong><\/li><li>The global average annual concentration of&nbsp;<strong>CO2 in the atmosphere&nbsp;<\/strong>averaged <strong>407.4 ppm in 2018<\/strong>, up 2.4 ppm since 2017. This is a&nbsp;major increase from pre-industrial levels, which ranged between 180 and 280 ppm.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Trends by\ntechnology:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Coal-fired power plants<\/strong> were the <strong>single largest contributor to the growth<\/strong> in emissions observed in\n2018, with an increase of 2.9%, or 280 Mt, compared with 2017 levels, exceeding\n10 Gt for the first time.<\/li><li>Coal-fired\nelectricity generation accounted for <strong>30%\nof global CO2 emissions.<\/strong> The majority of that generation is found today in <strong>Asia.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Trends\nby region<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In <strong>China,<\/strong> CO2 emissions grew by 2.5%, or 230 Mt, to 9.5 Gt. It saw an\nincrease of over 5% in electricity generation from coal-fired power stations.<\/li><li><strong>United\nStates<\/strong> witnessed an increase of 3.1% in CO2\nemissions in 2018 against the reductions seen in 2017.<\/li><li><strong>India<\/strong>\nsaw <strong>emissions rise by 4.8%, or 105 Mt<\/strong>,\nwith the even growth distribution between power and other sectors such as\ntransport and industry. Regardless of the growth India\u2019s <strong>per capita emissions <\/strong>remained low at only 40% of the global\naverage.<\/li><li><strong>Emissions\nfell by 1.3%, or 50 Mt in Europe<\/strong>. The emissions\ndecline was driven by a drop of 4.5% in Germany. <\/li><li>Renewable energy generation also saw a\nrecord year in the <strong>United Kingdom<\/strong>,\naccounting for <strong>35% of generation<\/strong>, as\nthe share of coal fell to 5%, a record low.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/geco\/emissions\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.iea.org\/geco\/emissions\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webstore.iea.org\/global-energy-co2-status-report-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/webstore.iea.org\/global-energy-co2-status-report-2018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following international organization recently released Global Energy and Carbon dioxide Status Report 2019? (a) International Solar Alliance (b) International Energy Agency (c) World Meteorological Organization (d) Friends for the Earths Answer: (b) Related facts: null The IEA\u2019s second Global Energy and Carbon dioxide Status Report 2019 is an annual report giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-72030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}