Fossil fuels consumption hit record highs in 2023, Energy Institute reveals
In 2023, total fossil fuel consumption reached a record high worldwide, the Energy Institute (EI) reported yesterday. Published in the 73rd annual Statistical Review of World Energy report by the EI (along with co-authors KPMG and Kearney), the release presented the first full global energy data for 2023. It stated that 2023 was a year of several historic energy consumption records – not all of them positive. Historic emissions and energy usagePerhaps most startlingly, the report revealed that global emissions from energy increased by 2% in 2023, exceeding 40 gigatonnes of CO for the first tim...