Finally, a positive climate-related note coming out of the fossil fuels industry at a time when its reputation is beyond battered as it takes the bulk of the blame for the world’s carbon emissions; energy-related CO2 emissions are set to decrease through 2030, and fossil fuels emissions will remain flat through 2050–despite economic expansion. It may not be an environmental utopia, but it might not be a catastrophe, either. In 2015, Paris-based global energy industry navel-gazer International Energy Agency (IEA) dropped a major bombshell when it revealed that energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions had remained unchanged since 2013 despite continued growth by the global economy. This marked the first time in 40 years when emissions had flatlined at a time of economic expansion, a milestone that flew in the face of established economic wisdom that had long assumed that rising fossil fuel consumption and climate-changing […]