Climate Home: In its International Energy Outlook 2016, the influential US Energy Information Administration maps a range of scenarios.
There are high and low economic growth, high and low oil price variants in the report published on Wednesday. Notably absent is a projection compatible with international climate goals.
In the reference case, greenhouse gas emissions from energy worldwide increase 34% from 2012 levels to 43 billion tonnes in 2040.
It contrasts starkly with models showing how to limit...