Guest place from Dr. Samuele Furtari
If a leader described self -described that nobody follows, is the leadership available? Perhaps. The next question could be, where is the guide going?
These inquiries could certainly be placed on the European makers of energy policy, which as a ground breaker for an alleged transition from fossil fuels in favor of “green” technologies. (We use qualified quotes because wind turbines and solar collectors have many environmental treasures.)
According to the latest data from the Energy Institute, European managers do not take a train on which the world jumps, but a corner of the corpse towards self -destruction.
EU policy decisions have led to so-called renewable sources-mainly wind and solar, which formed more than a third of the European electricity mix and exceed the coal for a significant scope.
Renewable energies in absolute numbers worldwide grow quickly. In 2024, wind, solar and other renewable energies contributed 5.6% to the global energy mix.
However, the growth of renewable energies does not keep up with increasing global energy requirements. In the past ten years, the consumption of the fossil fuel has increased more than seven times faster than the growth of renewable energies. In contrast to the narrative, which is often presented by the media, coal production has increased and has increased by more than 10% in the past decade.
Fossil fuels – coal, oil and natural gas – made up 87% of global energy in 2024, while the proportion of renewable energies has been passed on for wind and solar in the past 20 years to single -digit digits.
Last year, global energy supply increased by almost 2%, which is due to increasing demand for all types of energy. 65% of the increase was the Asian-Pacific region, which corresponds to 47% of global energy consumption and in which 83% of the coal is burned and ruled as the king of fuel sources. Together, China, India and Indonesia produced 71% of the coal of the globe.
In the past 10 years, the EU’s energy requirement has decreased by almost 6 exajoules (EJ), while global use has increased around 13 times – almost 77 exajoules EJ.
The EU management has therefore managed to reduce European energy consumption and to increase the role of renewable energies on the continent. But at what costs?
“In 2008, the economies of the United States and the euro zone were about the same size,” writes Andy Kessler in Wall Street Journal. “Since 2010, the Pro Head Inland Product (GDP) has basically flat in Europe. Today, the US GDP per capita is almost twice as large as Europe.”
Instead of undergoing the global energy transition imposed by Germany, the world grows economically and in a phase in which they are added to existing new sources instead of replacing them. (See my paper “Energy deduction, not transition” for a more detailed discussion.)
In view of the fact that most of the world’s population after greater prosperity – and thus cheap, plenty of energy, as the EU desired before it desired before its conversion into ecologism – it is very unlikely that these trends will be reversed. Economic and social imperative as well as the need for secure energy supply make a reduction in fossil fuels and unlikely.
As a result, the gap between poorly advised climate ambitions and the reality of global energy consumption will only expand. The failure to achieve the announced climate goals is now so obvious that it is reasonable to anticipate a submission of the Paris Agreement, as it is becoming increasingly difficult to hide the extent of this failure.
Paradoxically, the latest edition of the statistical review of the world of Energy Institute of this failure clearly shows that the European Commission continues to propose utopian goals, such as: B. a reduction of their own emissions by 90% by 2040.
The reality is that the European industry consecration, moves jobs somewhere else and that citizens are fed up with taking the legislative template for a climate policy that inevitably leads to economical suicide. Yes, the EU can achieve zero net, but it will be zero across the board: Zero Industry, Zero Prosperity and zero global influence.
So, there you have it: the EU, an advocate of guidelines that cannot make a difference in the climate and industrial masochism.
Dr. Samuele Furtari is a professor of energy policy in Brussels and London, former high-ranking officer of the General Directorate of the European Commission for Energy and Member of the CO2 coalition. He is the author of the paper, “energy deduction, not transition” and 18 books, including “Energy uncertainty: organized destruction of the competitiveness of the EU”.
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