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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jillian Ambrose

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Fossil fuel use reaches global record despite clean energy growth - You Need To See This

A man works atop a building as smoke billows from the chimney of the coal-powered Ennore Thermal Power Station plant near Chennai
For the first time, India’s coal-powered stations, such as the Ennore plant near Chennai, used more coal than Europe and North America combined last year. Photograph: Idrees Mohammed/EPA

The world’s consumption of fossil fuels climbed to a record high last year, driving emissions to more than 40 gigatonnes of CO2 for the first time, according to a global energy report.

Despite a record rise in the use of renewable energy in 2023, consumption of fossil fuels continued to increase too, an annual review of world energy by the Energy Institute found.

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