Sentences with phrase «global energy demand grew»

Global energy demand grew by 2.1 % in 2017 according to IEA estimates, more than twice the growth rate in 2016.

«As global energy demand grows over this century, there is an urgent need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and imported oil and curtail greenhouse gas emissions,» said Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.

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Let's invest in this transition and make sure Canada is a global leader in clean energy technologies and services, so that we're exporting solutions to meet growing global demand.»

And at a time of growing global demand for energy, strengthened collaboration across the border can position North America as a leading provider of advanced energy, related technologies and services.

In plain terms, we are choosing to penalize our own energy industry with severe financial measures, when other jurisdictions like the U.S. are slashing taxes and red tape, rejecting carbon taxes, and calling for expanded fossil fuel production due to growing global demand.

To meet the demands of growing consumption, a larger share of the global surface is being used for agriculture, livestock, forestry, energy plantations and infrastructure.

A lost decade of innovation Matt Rogers, the energy consultant who became DOE's chief official implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, believed «the United States» greatest competitive advantage is aligning technological innovation and high technology manufacturing to serve growing domestic and global demand.»

Nevertheless, the demand side grows fastly with booming population growth and urbanization, while the supply side is more endangered with increasing water scarcity due to global change, limited phosphorus reserves and vast amounts of energy required for nitrogen production.

The Principal Investigator of the study, Dr Felix Eigenbrod, Associate Professor (Spatial Ecology) at the University of Southampton's Centre for Biological Sciences, says: «The growing geographic disconnect between energy demand, the extraction and processing of resources, and the environmental impacts associated with energy production activities makes it crucial to factor global trade into sustainability assessments.

Greenpeace reports that data centers running these infrastructures consume 1.5 to 2 percent of global energy demand (3 percent in the U.S.), growing at a rate of 12 percent yearly.

Researchers and some energy experts say that this form of cooling — known as solar thermal — could help to slake the growing global demand for fuel to run energy - hungry air conditioning.

There is good news on the employment front for engineers in the United States: salaries for engineers are rising amid the growing global demand for technology services across industry sectors, particularly healthcare and energy.

The growing global demand for food and bio-energy, and the recent rises in food prices, slow down progress in reducing poverty, but increase demand for water from the agriculture and energy sectors.

Schools, like everyone else, face increased bills as global demand for energy continues to grow.

BP outlook: Energy demand grows as fuel mix continues to diversify; EVs in global car parc at 15 % by 2040, but electric share of VMT at 30 %

It includes not only traditional energy companies, but also firms that are «energy - intensive» end users of energy who have the potential to benefit from the abundance of U.S. supply as well as growing global demand for energy.

Global demand for energy is growing rapidly and must continue to grow to provide the needs of developing economies.

McKibben's enemy, of course, is the outsize influence on policy exerted by the array of companies extracting fossil fuels from the Earth to satisfy the growing global demand for energy.

Natural gas grows to account for a quarter of global energy demand in the New Policies Scenario by 2040, becoming the second - largest fuel in the global mix after oil.

He told producers that if current policies remain in place global energy demand will grow by 25 % by 2015, and by that time oil demand will reach 99.5 mb / d.

Southeast Asia is another rising heavyweight in global energy, with demand growing at twice the pace of China.

From a global perspective, we are faced with daunting challenges as documented in World Resources, 1996 - 97: the accelerating confluence of population expansion, increased demand for energy, food, clean drinking water, adequate housing, the destructive environmental effects of pollution from fossil fuels and nuclear waste, plus the growing divergence between the haves and have - nots and the potential for ensuing conflicts.

These points are especially critical considering that for at least the next several decades, by all reasonable estimates, global energy demand will continue to grow.

The drive to meet the world's ever - growing energy demand means that global power sector commitments — the projected lifetime carbon emissions of currently working power plants — have not declined in a single year since 1950.

This technical document stresses that an important challenge for Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) is to increase agriculture production to meet growing global demand for food, fiber and energy without proportionally increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

However, in absolute terms both energy demand and the share being met by fossil fuel are growing faster since 1990 than the growth in new renewable energy sources, which is accelerating, but not yet fast enough to curb the increasing global CO2 trend.

In its 2018 Energy Outlook, BP shows how growing industrialisation and prosperity will drive an increase in global energy demand and how that demand will be met with the most diverse energy mix Energy Outlook, BP shows how growing industrialisation and prosperity will drive an increase in global energy demand and how that demand will be met with the most diverse energy mix energy demand and how that demand will be met with the most diverse energy mix energy mix the...

Now consider that global energy demand is expected to grow nearly 35 percent by 2040 as developing nations advance and billions of people join the middle class.

The thrust of the roadmap paper puts the onus squarely on fossil fuel management to respond properly to how growing climate regulation, advances in cleaner technology, cheaper renewables, and greater energy efficiency hit demand and the implications those global trends have for commodity prices.

In addition, diverse sectors such as wild - capture fisheries, aquaculture, offshore energy, deep sea mining, marine transportation, and coastal tourism are expanding to meet growing global demand.

The growing sense of global urgency over our twin crisis — climate change and energy security — is now driving businesses to become green, consumers to demand green and policy makers to drive policies to accelerate the market adoption of green products.The most notorious subsidy is the 51 - cent gas credit for ethanol.»

The company expects energy demand to grow at an average of about 1 % annually over the next three decades — faster than population but much slower than the global economy — with increasing efficiency and a gradual shift toward lower - emission energy sources: Gas increases faster than oil and by more BTUs in total, while coal grows for a while longer but then shrinks back to current levels.

As we seek to increase production of oil and natural gas to meet growing global energy demand, we are committed to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions within our operations.

Global demand for coal is expected to grow to 8.9 billion tons by 2016 from 7.9 billion tons this year, with the bulk of new demand — about 700 million tons — coming from China, according to a Peabody Energy study.

Global electricity demand is expected to grow three times more quickly than other energy.

With 70 % of global energy demand currently met through the burning of carbon - based fuels, and demand predicted to double by 20351, the world faces a growing challenge: reducing climate change causing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions while not damaging a fragile global economy that is sustained by these abundant fossil fuels.

It remains one of the greatest ironies of the environmental movement that those most concerned with global warming, like Ms. Collard, are opposed to nuclear energy, the only non-greenhouse gas - emitting power source that can effectively replace fossil fuels while satisfying Canada's growing demand for energy.

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[The rise] of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere should remind us of our continuing success at expanding the global supply of energy to meet a growing demand.

It is projected that — with current policy settings — global energy demand and associated supply patterns based on fossil fuels — the main drivers of GHG emissions — will continue to grow.

Even allowing for improved energy efficiency, if global energy demand continues to grow along the anticipated trajectory, by 2030 the investment over this period in energy - carrier and - conversion systems will be over 20 trillion (1012) US$, being around 10 % of world total investment or 1 % of cumulative global GDP (IEA, 2006b).

As demand for energy grows, the global investment community is looking for new opportunities for capital growth on the development of new generation.

With energy demand growing at twice the pace of China, Southeast Asia is what IEA WEO 2017 calls «a rising heavyweight in global energy» [1].

Check out how Samsung is trying to lead the way in trimming our global energy consumption (even as our demand seems to grow) and how it is cleaning up after itself in the e-waste area.

To achieve the goal of 100 % renewable energy production, Ecofys forsees that global energy demand in 2050 will be 15 % lower than in 2005, despite a growing population and continued economic development in countries like India and China.

Fears that the rising demand for biofuels is contributing to a global surge in food prices are founded, but such pitfalls can be avoided if top energy consumers invest in efficient crops grown in tropical nations, promote research and encourage the biofuel trade, said Corrado Clini, chairman of the GBEP.

Faced with a perceived conflict between expanding global energy access and rapidly reducing greenhouse emissions to prevent climate change, many environmental groups and donor institutions have come to rely on small - scale, decentralized, renewable energy technologies that can not meet the energy demands of rapidly growing emerging economies and people struggling to escape extreme poverty.

Despite the desire to move away from fossil fuels, oil and gas will remain dominant in the global energy mix — and the energy world will continue to be consumed by the need to find oil and gas to meet growing global demand.

A couple of the big - picture projections in ExxonMobil's annual global energy outlook: The world's energy needs will grow 25 percent between now until 2040, with oil, natural gas and coal continuing to meet 80 percent of that demand.

They note global electricity demand has grown much less than expected (thanks in part to energy efficiency).