EIA Findings Show Big Policy Changes Needed For Paris Climate Goals

The Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) annual assessment of global energy trends is finding that carbon emissions will continue to rise under current climate policies, underscoring the high stakes of next month’s international climate summit during which world leaders will be pressed to agree to tougher steps to curb emissions. “If current policy and technology trends continue, global energy consumption and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions will increase through 2050 as a result of population and economic growth,” EIA says in a...