Africa has approximately 30%
Africa has approximately 30% of the earth’s remaining mineral resources
Source:
National Geographic
Food-Water-Energy
Global Energy Demand
A power-hungry world will see global energy demand rise by a third by 2035.
Source:
World Energy Outlook
Oil barrels
Approximately 40.000.000 barrels of oil are pumped per day.
Source:
http://www.eia.gov/
Energy consumption per day
Approximately 185.849.657 MWh of energy is used per day.
Source:
http://www.bp.com/
Peoples' Hunger
10.124.817 people died of hunger in 2013.
Source:
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
Water Consumption
4.448.478 billion liters of water were consumed in 2012.
Source:
http://www.ifpri.org/
Bochkarev on EU-Russia Gas Competition
EWI Senior Fellow Danila Bochkarev,spoke in Ljubljana, Slovenia recently about the effects of the energy industry on EU-Russia relations.
“Europe's becoming more active on the energy [front], while Russia is becoming more defensive,” he said. “The idea is how to find a compromise.”
Bochkarev listed some areas of conflict over energy, including market competition and deregulation, climate change/environmental standards, and maintaining secure gas supplies.
Click here to read a summary of Bochkarev’s speech in Natural Gas Europe.
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