LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) - Carbon dioxide emissions fromenergy consumption grew by 0.1 percent last year in theirsmallest advance since 2009 due to lower coal use and sluggishgrowth, BP said on Wednesday in its annual energy review.
The rise slowed from 0.5 percent in 2014, it said in the BPStatistical Review of World Energy, first published in 1952 andconsidered an industry handbook.
Global primary energy consumption rose by 1 percent in 2015,just below a 1.1 percent rise in 2014, but less than the 10-yearannual average of 1.9 percent, the review showed.
Coal consumption fell by 1.8 percent versus a 10-year annualaverage of 2.1 percent growth.
Coal's share of global primary energy consumption fell to29.2 percent, taking its lowest share since 2005.
Emissions growth was below average in every region exceptEurope and Eurasia, BP said.
Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Union,estimated last month that the EU's CO2 emissions from energy usein 2015 increased by 0.7 percent.
(Reporting by Nina Chestney; editing by Jason Neely)
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