Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality

Dirty coal is here to stay

Brown coal * Hard coal ** Major consumers in red Main production basins

North America

Coal producers are already taking advantage of the oil shortage and might even more in the future.

UNITED STATES

The end of the oil era

Oil production

Peak Oil

Thousand million barrels a year

30

ATLANTIC OCEAN

20

10

Forecast

0

South and Central America

1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030

2040 2050

Forecast

Coal consumption Thousand million Kilowatt hours

60 30 40 50 10 20 0

OECD countries non OECD countries

1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030

* Lignite and sub-bituminous coal (the dirtiest) ** Anthracite and bituminous coal (coking coal and steam coal)

KICK THE HABIT THE PROBLEM

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