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Understanding CO2 Emissions from the Global Energy Sector

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2014-02-24
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2014-02-24
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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 2010. Despite improvements in some countries, the global CO2 emission factor for energy generation has hardly changed over the last 20 years.
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Foster, Vivien. 2014. Understanding CO2 Emissions from the Global Energy Sector. Live Wire, 2014/5. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17143 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
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