In March, the International Energy Agency published its Global Energy Review 2025. The report covers energy trends in 2024, including those from non-renewable and renewable energy sources and resulting carbon dioxide emissions. Below are some key findings from the report.

Aside from a miraculous case of how an Italian teenager survived for 42 minutes underwater without oxygen in 2015 or Stéphane Mifsud’s static apnea (holding one’s breath without moving) underwater world record of 11 minutes and 35 seconds in 2009, air—rather, oxygen—is something human beings can’t literally live without. 

It is early evening in Copenhagen. At the intersection where traffic crossing the Queen Louise Bridge meets Frederiksborggade Street, special traffic lights for the bike lane have just turned green, and a constant stream of bikes safely navigates the junction.