Comments - U.N. Demands Payments for Climate Schemes as Biden Readies for Return to Paris Agreement - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T00:59:45Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A202825&xn_auth=noWORLD AND US PRIMARY ENERGY C…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-01-21:4401701:Comment:2030212021-01-21T13:47:27.432ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p><strong>WORLD AND US PRIMARY ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND CAPITAL COST</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/world-total-energy-consumption">https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/world-total-energy-consumption</a></p>
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<p>World energy consumption is projected to increase to 736 quads in 2040 from 575 quads in 2015, an increase of 28%, according to the latest from the US Energy Information Administration, EIA.</p>
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<p><strong>WORLD AND US PRIMARY ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND CAPITAL COST</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/world-total-energy-consumption">https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/world-total-energy-consumption</a></p>
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<p>World energy consumption is projected to increase to 736 quads in 2040 from 575 quads in 2015, an increase of 28%, according to the latest from the US Energy Information Administration, EIA.</p>
<p>See URL and click on PPT to access data, click on to page 4 of PowerPoint</p>
<p><a href="https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/ieo/">https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/ieo/</a></p>
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<p>Most of this growth is expected to come from countries that are not in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, and especially from countries where demand is driven by strong economic growth, particularly in Asia.</p>
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<p>Non-OECD Asia, which includes China and India, accounted for more than 60% of the world’s total increase in energy consumption from 2015 through 2040.</p>
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<p><strong>PARIS AGREEMENTS</strong></p>
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<p>China, India, and other developing Asian countries, and Africa, and Middle and South America need to use low-cost energy, such as coal, to be competitive.</p>
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<p>They would not have signed up for “Paris”, if they had not been allowed to be more or less <strong>exempt</strong> from the Paris agreements</p>
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<p>Obama agreed to commit the US to the Paris agreements, i.e., be subject to its financial and other obligations for decades.</p>
<p>However, he never submitted the commitment to the US Senate for ratification, as required by the US Constitution.</p>
<p>Trump rescinded the commitment. It became effective 3 years later, one day after the US presidential elections on November 3, 2020.</p>
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<p>If the US had not left “Paris”, a UN Council likely would have determined a level of renewable energy, RE, spending, say $500 billion/y, for distributing to various poorer countries by UN bureaucrats.</p>
<p>The Council would have assessed OECD members, likely in proportion to their GDPs.</p>
<p>The US and Europe would have been assessed at 100 to 150 billion dollars/y each.</p>
<p>The non-OECD countries likely would continue to be more or less <strong>exempt</strong> from paying for the Paris agreements.</p>
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