Abstract
This study attempted to identify common trends for the black economic development of the major developed and developing countries as well as exceptions to these trends. It investigated these economies' and carbon dependences in the last 44 years. Drawing on the traditional concept of energy intensity, this study developed the term of b lack to account for the intensity of fossil fuels in the total mix as opposed to that of renewable sources. Using time series of fossil fuels and nuclear power consumption, population, GDP data of 14 major economies and a combination of statistical analytical methods, it studied the trends of these economies in fossil and non-renewable fuel consumption and de- pendence and the related CO2 emissions individually and in groups. Based on the analysis of the group trends and exceptions of the main developed and developing economies' carbon-based intensities and carbon intensities, the study dis- cussed the policy imp lications of these findings for these economies' future sustain- able development.
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