Dong, Kangyin; Hochman, Gal; Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2018
-middle-income countries. Improved energy efficiency, reflected in the declining energy intensity of gross domestic product, has substantially … contributed to limit global carbon dioxide emissions at the current level; otherwise, the world's current carbon dioxide emissions … would have been 40 percent higher. Despite the recent rapid expansion of renewable energy, its contribution to slowing the …