My initial blog on this subject (https://enerworks.com/2015/03/could-reducing-co2-help-grow-the-economy/) highlighted a report from the International Energy Association documenting global economic growth without associated increase in man-made CO2 emissions.  This was very interesting (and promising) news because up until this point it was widely thought the world economy couldn’t grow without also increasing man-made CO2 emissions. With this follow up report, the International … Read More

The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently announced that growth of global CO2 emissions in 2014 were unchanged from 2013 at 32.3 billion tons of CO2 emissions. What makes this news significant is that according to the IEA, this marks the first time that global CO2 emissions remained unchanged while the global economy grew by 3%. This marks the first time … Read More