A growing share of
global coal demand comes from those countries, though the coal boom climate hawks feared seems to be slowing somewhat.
Not exact matches
Global demand for
coal is expected to grow to 8.9 billion tons by 2016 from 7.9 billion tons this year, with the bulk of new
demand — about 700 million tons —
coming from China, according to a Peabody Energy study.
It indicates how rising prosperity is driving an increase in
global energy
demand and how that
demand may be met over the
coming decades through a diverse range of supplies including oil, natural gas,
coal, and renewable energy.
The increase in emissions of the all - important greenhouse gas
came as
global energy
demand itself increased thanks to strong economic growth — and that
demand was sated by all types of energy, including renewables but also oil,
coal and natural gas.