Asia Energy Consumption excerpt
"Environmental experts at an international symposium have called for a change in fuel consumption patterns, especially among developing countries, to reduce "greenhouse" gasses worldwide. All countries, especially developing ones, need to switch their fuel source from coal to oil to gas, increase power plant efficiency by 30-60 percent and investigate the use of solar and wind energy, said panelists at the Tokyo symposium on the Sustainable Future of the Global System. Experts from international agencies and leading institutions worldwide attended the symposium, which was organized by the Tokyo-based United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. They discussed scenarios for reduction of greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide, which utilization of coal and oil produces in large quantities. They agreed that although no single "new" energy source can replace fossil fuels, the source of 90 percent of the world's primary energy, energy must be converted into quality carriers such as electricity and gas. The extent to which energy can be conserved is enormous and underestimated, they stressed. Reports said that lack of advanced technology and heavy reliance on coal in some 130 developing countries with 85 percent of the world population have caused carbon emissions in these countries to increase rapidly."
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