• Global Energy Review 2020 has been issued by the International Energy Agency ( IEA), describing the effect of Covid-19 on global energy demands and CO2 emissions.

IEA’s Global Energy Review 2020:

• Global Oil demand was also severely affected, down nearly 5% in the first quarter, largely due to a decline in mobility and aviation, accounting for nearly 60% of global oil production.
• The road transport operation globally was almost 50 percent below the level for 2019 by the end of March and aviation 60 percent below.
• Global energy demand declined by 3.8% in the first quarter of 2020.
• Global coal demand was struck the hardest, dipping by almost 8% relative to the first quarter of 2019.
• Global gas demand was declined by only 2%.
• Demand for renewable energy increased in COVID.
• Electricity demand has been significantly reduced as a result of lockdown measures by 20%.
• In 2020, the study predicts that electricity consumption will plunge/fall by 6 percent, which is seven times the downturn since the global financial crisis of 2008. In the first quarter of 2020, global CO2 emissions were over 5 percent lower than in 2019.