Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality

Asia Pacific

PACIFIC OCEAN

JAPAN

Europe and Eurasia

CHINA

RUSSIA

GERMANY

INDIA

In 2004 43 % of the electricity produced in the world came from coal.

INDIAN OCEAN

Africa and Middle East

In brown: share of lignite and sub-bituminous coal

Thousand million tonnes Coal reserves at the end of 2006

300 200

SOUTH AFRICA

ATLANTIC OCEAN

100

20

Sources: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2007 ; US Department of Energy Information Administration (EIA), International Energy Annual 2004 , 2006; EIA, System for the Analysis of Global Energy Markets , 2007; World Energy Council, Survey of Energy Resources 2004 ; Coaltrans World Coal Map 2005 ; International Energy Agency; OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms, 2008; Atlas Environnement du Monde Diplomatique 2007; Colin Campbell, Association for the study of peak oil and gas, 2007.

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