The report indicates that the world is lagging behind in its efforts to control climate change. By Jeremy Hodges

The global carbon emissions they had the largest increase in seven years in 2018, according to BP's annual review of global energy, which indicates that the world is lagging behind in its efforts to control climate change.

The report, one of the most consulted surveys on global energy trends, revealed that primary demand increased at the fastest pace of this decade in 2018, although economic growth weakened. China, India and the United States were responsible for two thirds of the increase of 2.9% in consumption.

The state of emergency is accumulating throughout the world to contain a global increase in temperature, which has risen by 1 degree centigrade since the beginning of the industrial revolution and at least this increase will double by the end of the century. It marks the fastest climate change since the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago.

"At a time when society is increasingly concerned about climate change and the need to act, the demand for energy and carbon emissions grow at their fastest pace in years"Said Spencer Dale, chief economist at BP, at a briefing in London.

Much of the increase was driven by more volatile weather patterns. An increase in the number of days that were unusually hot or cold increased the use of energy for heating and coolingsaid Dale. As a result, global CO2 emissions increased for the third year in a row, a trend that will probably continue for the time being.

Nearly 200 countries pledged to take action to limit warming to less than 2 degrees through the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015. Their goal was to limit the heavy storms, droughts and famine expected to be more frequent with climate change out of control.

Even the dirtiest fossil fuel for power generation is increasing. Both consumption and coal production increased at their fastest pace for five years, driven by the need of Asia's developing economies to connect millions of households to a reliable source of electricity. This is despite the fact that the coal share of primary energy has been reduced to just over a quarter of the primary energy and 17 gigawatts of plants burn the fuel that is being withdrawn.

The BP report contained some more hopeful trends. The consumption of renewable energy increased 15% in 2018, close to the record increase of the previous year. China, again at the forefront, is adding more renewable energy than the combination of the more developed OECD countries, BP said.

The growth in the production of wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and waste burning accounted for approximately one third of the increase in total power generation, or the same as the increase in coal.

"Renewables can not expand fast enough," said Dale.