The Dual Challenge

Affordable, reliable energy has been key to human flourishing, but growth in emissions from our current energy system has increased global temperatures.

Note: GDP is adjusted for purchasing power parity.

Sources: Bain & Company analysis; BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2021; Vaclav Smil, Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives, 2017; Maddison Project Database 2020, Jutta Bolt and Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2020 update"; World Bank; Our World in Data.