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3 Years Of Painful Cuts Sets Oil Markets Up For Serious Supply Crunch

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Total global oil production could decline for the next several years in a row as scarce new sources of supply come online. According to data from Rystad Energy, overall global oil output will fall this year as natural depletion overwhelms all new sources of supply. A sharp rise in oil prices would spur new investment and new drilling.

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Study Finds Global CO2 Emissions Dropped 1.3% in 2009; Emissions in China and India Rose 9% and 6%

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The decrease in emissions follow the decrease in the global economy. While emissions from oil and gas have decreased, emissions from coal have remained stable; the share of coal as a fuel has increased. This is not unexpected ”, said Gunnar Myhre, senior research fellow at CICERO and one of the scientists behind the article.

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Worldwatch Institute report finds global energy intensity increased in 2010 for second year in a row

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Particularly during the surge of what was called the “knowledge-based economy” from 1991 to 2000, global economic productivity increased without parallel increases in energy use. But after the second half of 2008, when international oil prices dropped 75%, global energy intensity started rising.

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IHS Markit: global commercial vehicle production to drop 22% in 2020 in wake of COVID-19

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The China policy response to assist the commercial-vehicle industry has been broad, with a variety of direct and indirect supports announced, locally and nationally. The local industry is already recovering, with commercial vehicle plants re-opened. The local industry is already recovering, with commercial vehicle plants re-opened.

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IRENA, IEA study concludes meeting 2?C scenario possible with net positive economics

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To meet the climate goals set in the Paris Agreement and keep the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees, the CO 2 emission intensity of the global economy would need to be reduced by 85% in 35 years. Gt by 2050 to limit warming to no more than two degrees above pre-industrial temperatures. —IRENA Director-General Adnan Z.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5 Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? Globally, more than 100 nations have established renewable energy targets.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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ACORE is an organization of member companies and institutions that are dedicated to moving renewable energy into the mainstream of America’s economy. Dr. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “ M barrels/day of oil within the next 10 years ”. Billion vs. $28.3 Billion in 2008).

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