In the IRENA case, electricity rises from 21 percent of total
global energy consumption today to 40 percent by 2050.
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Cheap shale gas is significantly reducing coal demand in the United States, but
global coal
consumption is still expected to rise 2.6 percent annually by 2017, the International
Energy Agency said
today in a report.
On its current course,
global energy consumption would be 40 percent higher in 2030 than it is
today.
In Brazil, the share of direct and indirect renewable use in final
energy consumption rises from 39 %
today to 45 % in 2040, compared with a
global progression from 9 % to 16 % over the same period.
But if every country moved up the
energy ladder — from wood and dung to fossil fuels and from fossil fuels to uranium — all humans could achieve, or even surpass, Western levels of
energy consumption while reducing
global environmental damage below
today's levels.
about 30 % of
global energy consumption is coal
today.