ThinkProgress: The International Energy Agency has confirmed that global carbon dioxide emissions have decoupled from economic growth. The IEA reports that for the second year in a row, the world economy has grown while energy-related CO2 emissions - the primary cause of climate change - remained flat, thanks to energy efficiency and a big surge in renewables.
This decoupling is "unprecedented" and "huge according to IEA chief Fatih Birol. The IEA explains that the only three previous times in the last four...