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#FUEL CONSUMPTION DRIVER#

This means our quantity of reserves changes all the time – not only based on how much we consume, but by how much new resources are ‘unlocked’. Reserves represent only some fraction of resources, however we continue to discover new quantities of coal, and with time more becomes technologically feasible to extract. In other words, we know it’s there and it would be technologically and economically feasibly to extract it. “Proved reserves” represents coal that we know with reasonable certainty could be recovered in the future under existing economic and technological operating conditions. It’s important to distinguish reserves versus resources here. In the interactive chart we see proved coal reserves across the world. Which countries have the potential to extract and sell them? But where in the world does our existing reserves of fossil fuels remain? In previous sections we looked at how much fossil fuels different countries produced or consumed. When will countries phase out coal power?.Share of the workforce employed in the coal industry, United Kingdom.Share of primary energy from fossil fuels.Share of electricity production from oil.Share of electricity production from gas.

Share of electricity production from fossil fuels.

Share of electricity production from coal.

Per capita fossil energy consumption vs.

Per capita energy consumption from coal.

actual oil production in the United States

Global carbon budget for a two-degree world.

Fossil-fuel subsidies as a share of GDP.

Fossil fuel production over the long-term.

Fossil fuel consumption per capita by source Line chart.

Fossil fuel consumption per capita by source Stacked area chart.

Employment in the coal industry in the United Kingdom.

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources.

Electricity generation from fossil fuels.

Coal production per capita over the long-term.

Coal production and imports in the United Kingdom Tonnes.

Coal output per worker in the United Kingdom.

Coal output from opencast and deepmines in the United Kingdom.

Annual percentage change in oil consumption.

Annual percentage change in gas consumption.

Annual percentage change in fossil fuel consumption.

Annual percentage change in coal energy consumption.

Annual change in fossil fuel consumption.

Annual change in coal energy consumption.

This article presents the long-run and recent perspectives on coal, oil and gas – how much countries produce and consume where our fossil fuel reserves are and what role the fuels play in our energy and electricity systems. They are also a major contributor to local air pollution, which is estimated to linked to millions of premature deaths each year.Īs low-carbon sources of energy – nuclear and renewables – become readily available, the world needs to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels.

#FUEL CONSUMPTION DRIVER#

When burned they produce carbon dioxide (CO 2) and are the largest driver of global climate change. Fossil energy has been a fundamental driver of the technological, social, economic and development progress which has followed.įossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) have, and continue to, play a dominant role in global energy systems.īut they also come with several negative impacts. But the Industrial Revolution unlocked a whole new energy resource: fossil fuels. For most of human history our ancestors relied on very basic forms of energy: human muscle, animal muscle and the burning of biomass such as wood or crops.