Some visual note-taking from documents I’ve been reading. No big surprises but useful reminders of some fundamental observations. In summary, they show that:
- global energy production is increasing
- global energy consumption is increasing
- global energy use per capita is increasing
- increasing energy efficiency does not lead to an overall reduction in energy use
- correspondingly, global emissions are rising
- economic growth is tightly coupled to energy use
- taking current climate pledges into account, we’re currently on course for a 4c increase in temperatures by 2100
Click on the images to go to the source. Some are direct links to PDF files.
World energy supply
World energy consumption
Energy use per capita
World C02 emissions
Economic growth
The rebound effect of efficiency
Decline of net energy
