Paris Agreement signatories China, India and US lead the way as world’s coal consumption reaches all-time high
01/26/2022 / By Roy Green
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Coal 2021 report revealed that signatories in the Paris Climate Accord or Paris Agreement accounted for the majority of the world’s coal consumption, which jumped by nine percent and reached an all-time high last year.
China was again the runaway leader, consuming 4.4 billion tons of fossil fuel, which is over half (50.5 percent) of the world’s total consumption. India was a distant second with 966 million tons consumed and the United States, despite having the world’s biggest coal reserve, ranked third with 731 million tons.
The IEA report was released after the end of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. COP26 was held to further strengthen the Paris Agreement forged by 196 countries in 2015. China, India and the U.S. were among the signatories.
Together, these three nations accounted for 70.3 percent of the volume of coal the world burned to fuel homes and businesses, with the steel and cement industry among the major consumers.
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