Addiction to Oil
b'This is Scott Amyx with today\\u2019s Climate Change Flash Briefing. One common factor across developed and developing countries has been the continue rise in the consumption of oil in the transportation sector. In EU, the amount of fuel used for flights and road transport has surged by 4 percent. In the U.S., fossil fuels used in cars rose by 1.4 percent. According to researchers, people are driving bigger petrol and diesel cars such as SUVs, and traveling more than before. UN Secretary General Ant\\xf3nio Guterres at the COP24 climate conference commented, \\u201cEven as we witness devastating climate impacts causing havoc across the world, we are still not doing enough, nor moving fast enough, to prevent irreversible and catastrophic climate disruption.\\u201d Stay tuned next time to find out the dire warning from the UN climate change report. And to learn more, visit https://ScottAmyx.com/.'