Energy demand (and emissions) will continue to grow-BP

摘要

Weaknesses in global energy markets, a slowdown in China's growth and a global climate change agreement-despite all these recent events, the demand for energy will continue to grow substantially over the next 20 years, along with carbon emissions. So says the 2016 edition of the BP Energy Outlook, the sixth edition of the company's forecast of energy trends and what it sees as 'the most likely' scenario for global energy markets over the next two decades. The 2016 Outlook says that global energy demand will increase by 34% between 2014 and 2035, or by an average of 1.4% per year. It says that, despite low carbon sources of energy growing faster than 'carbon-intense' fuels, carbon emissions will continue to rise by around 1% a year (albeit at a slower rate than they have done over the last two decades).