US accounts for more than third oil expansion
mardi 19 septembre 2023 à 01:32* The US accounts for more than a third of the expansion of global oil and gas production planned by mid-century, despite its claims of climate leadership,*
I suspect these figures are skewed by not including increases in coal mining. China is building new coal-fired generators at a prodigious rate and must be planning a comparable increase in the rate of coal mining. Whether the US or China comes out worse overall when all kinds of fossil fuel are counted, I don't know, but they must both be very bad.
*World Bank spent billions of dollars backing fossil fuels in 2022, study finds.*