Not exact matches
If the current strong growth of plastics usage continues as expected, the plastics sector will account for 20 % of
total oil consumption and 15 % of the
global annual carbon budget by 2050.
An IEA collective action would be initiated in response to a significant
global oil supply disruption and would involve IEA Member Countries making additional volumes of crude and / or product available to the
global market (either through increasing supply or reducing demand), with each country's share based on national
consumption as part of the IEA
total oil consumption.
Analysis in the new WEO - 2017 showed that for the first time the largest share of
global subsidies that benefit fossil fuel
consumption went to keep electricity prices artificially low (41 % of the
global total), ahead of
oil (40 %) and natural gas.
In 2006 alone,
oil producing companies and countries burned close to 170 billion cubic meters of natural gas, equivalent to a whopping 27 % of
total U.S. natural gas
consumption or 5.5 % of
total global production of natural gas.