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Current energy policies unsustainable
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/business/energy-environment/11oil.html
November 11, 2009
Gloomy Energy Report Sets the Stage for Climate Negotiations
By JAD MOUAWAD
As the world heads for tough negotiations over a global climate deal next month, an influential forecasting agency said on Tuesday that current energy policies were not sustainable, and that a vast transformation of energy use was required to fend off the worst consequences of global warming.
In the absence of a global deal to limit the emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas blamed for climate change, energy consumption will soar over the next decades. This would result in a catastrophic rise in global temperatures, according to the International Energy Agency, an adviser to industrialized nations that is based in Paris.