World Energy Consumption - Emissions

Emissions

Global warming emissions resulting from energy production are a serious environmental problem. Efforts to resolve this include the Kyoto Protocol, which is a UN agreement aiming to reduce harmful climate impacts, which a number of nations have signed. Dangerous concentration remains a subject of debate. A global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius is considered high risk by the SEI. Even to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius demands a 75% decline in carbon emissions in industrial countries by 2050, if the population is 10 mrd in 2050. Across 40 years, this averages to a 2% decrease every year. In 2011, the warming emissions of energy production continued rising regardless of the consensus of the basic problem. According to Robert Engelman (Worldwatch institute), in order to prevent collapse, human civilization must stop increasing emissions within a decade regardless of the economy or population (2009).