Interactive infographic: Fossil fuels' shrinking share of global energy mix

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Fossil fuels would shrink to roughly 50% of total primary energy supply in 2050, from about 80% in 2020, if the world meets the minimum Paris Agreement target of 2C warming, according to projections by S&P Global Platts Analytics' Scenario Planning Service in its Annual Guidebook 2020 released in February

Extraordinary measures would be needed across the energy sector to meet this emissions target, with three categories having the largest impacts: energy efficiency, shifting direct fossil fuels demand to electricity and hydrogen, and the decarbonization of electricity and hydrogen.

Near term, demand-destruction from the coronavirus outbreak has created uncertainty in the 2020 figures.

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