Sentences with phrase «if global energy policy»

If global energy policy isn't focused on developing and deploying all of these technologies, we will underutilize the tools at our disposal and reduce our chances of winning the fight against climate change.

Not exact matches

The International Energy Agency, which says that global oil demand could peak around 2020 if governments adopted particularly green policies, predicts that even if it happened, oil still would account for 23 % of total global energy in 2040, down from 32 % inEnergy Agency, which says that global oil demand could peak around 2020 if governments adopted particularly green policies, predicts that even if it happened, oil still would account for 23 % of total global energy in 2040, down from 32 % inenergy in 2040, down from 32 % in 2016.

Even if U.S. energy policy goes «drill baby drill,» there will be no escape from the vicissitudes of the global oil market

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

Finally, on the policy side, if there's evidence that existing technology is inadequate to affordably decarbonize a growing global energy system on a scale that would matter to the climate, and it's clear that we've utterly disinvested in energy research for decades, it's my job to write that, as I did in 2006, and repeat it on the blog as much as necessary.

1) The global energy infrastructure and investment is such that it will be impossible to switch fast enough away from fossil if we are going to meet 550ppm CO2 stabilisation (I actually think we should go for 450ppm but most policy uses double pre-industrial as the desired stabilisation) in time.

In Shellenberger's variant, you need to add the words «in China» to any claim about the role of an energy technology or policy in fighting global warming and see if it still holds up.

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.

If climate policy exceeds the pathway prescribed by NDCs, and overall energy demand is lower, cost reductions in solar PV and EVs can help limit global warming to between 2.1 °C (50 % probability) and 2.3 °C (66 % probability).

The need to develop a new ecologically and economically sustainable energy system may take decades to complete, but will not be possible if scientific, technical, economic, and policy innovations — and regional as well as global collaborations — are not developed, shared, and implemented.

Maria van der Hoeven, the IEA's executive director, said: «Coal's share of the global energy mix continues to grow each year, and if no changes are made to current policies, coal will catch oil within a decade.»

To placate them, the White House instituted energy policies that made it appear as if carbon dioxide and global warming were indeed grave threats.

Hall: The message really couldn't be any clearer: If you're looking for the magic bullet that will solve both our global warming crisis and our growing foreign policy crises, change the energy system.

The energy policies we choose today will determine if our nation will continue its march toward global energy leadership — a unique and once - in - a-generation opportunity.

However, the point I am making is that the efforts of the IPCC to define climate sensitivity will have no policy value if that which we measure (and the way in which we measure and calculate it) to achieve our records of global mean surface temperature is not in fact a true reflection of the heat energy at the surface.

One thing I would add — it ought to be obvious (and I certainly hope it is) that a process of «winding back and decelerating the present form of capitalism», including «more social democracy, more regulation», will only be effective at mitigating the effect of global warming (partially or wholly), if it includes a large suite of policies specifically aimed at addressing global warming, that is, replacing emissions - producing activities or processes (particularly energy sources) with non emissions - producing ones.