Understanding CO2 Emissions from the Global Energy Sector

The energy sector contributes about 40 percent of global emissions of CO2. Threequarters of those emissions come from six major economies. Although coal-fired plants account for just 40 percent of world energy production, they were responsible for more than 70 percent of energy-sector emissions in 2...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Foster, Vivien, Bedrosyan, Daron
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
CO2
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17143