IEA Special Report Urges UN Greenhouse Gas Emissions Confab to Build on Momentum of Positive Decoupling of Global Economic Trends and Energy-Caused Emissions

摘要

A peak in global energy-related emissions could be achieved as early as 2020 and at no net economic cost, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects in a World Energy Outlook Special Report on Energy and Climate Change. IEA maintains that energy will be at the core of the discussion of efforts to significantly constrain the global temperature creep. The use of low-carbon energy sources is expanding rapidly, and "there are signs that growth in the global economy and energy- related emissions may be starting to decouple." The agency claims to show how to achieve an early peak in emissions in the framework of the upcoming UN climate talks - - the 21st UN Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris in December 2015. World greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from energy production and use are double the level of all other sources combined, "meaning that action to combat climate change must come first and foremost from the energy sector," the report states.