A key measure of global progress on energy efficiency is expected to accelerate in 2025, according to the latest annual update from the International Energy Agency or IEA. Energy Efficiency 2025, the IEA's annual report on efficiency trends around the world, finds that global primary energy intensity ' the main metric for tracking efficiency progress ' is on course to improve by 1.8% this year, up from just 1% in 2024. Preliminary estimates indicate that several key economies, such as India and China, are showing some indications of stronger progress compared with their average since 2019. The rate of global improvement in energy efficiency has been largely lacklustre since 2019, averaging around 1.3% per year. That's down significantly from the average of around 2% per year between 2010 and 2019. The global rate of improvement currently falls well short of the goal of 4% by 2030 that was set at COP28 in Dubai in 2023 where nearly 200 governments agreed to work together to double the global average annual rate of energy efficiency improvements by 2030.

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