Sentences with phrase «with global energy demand»

With global energy demand rapidly increasing, especially in developing countries where millions still live in poverty, the green agenda has been a dead end from day one.

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If the quadrant with high energy demand and low technology is the world that materializes, Shell's modeling suggests, global oil demand won't peak until perhaps the late 2040s.

According to the International Energy Agency, reducing pollution to levels consistent with limiting climate change to less than two degrees would see 715 million EVs cruising the streets in 2040 — which would also shrink global oil demand by 20 % relative to today.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

In March this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that unless the industry approves fresh investments in new projects, global oil supply may be struggling to catch up with demand after 2020, which could result in a sharp jump in oil prices.

One such trend, with incredible potential for Canada, is the rapid growth of Asia's emerging economies and their impact on global demand for energy and natural resources.

Canada's largest utility, Hydro Quebec, is reviewing its commercial energy strategy after being inundated with demand from global digital currency miners rushing to the province to benefit from political stability and low energy prices.

The price rise occurred with energy demand across both developed and emerging economies elevated by stronger global economic growth.

By mid-2014, increased U.S. production combined with other energy production began to exceed global demand, leading to excess oil inventory.

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.

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.

The new study aimed to systematically pinpoint the drivers of water demand in the energy system, examining 41 scenarios for the future energy system that are compatible with limiting future climate change to below the 2 °C target, which were identified by the IIASA - led 2012 Global Energy Assesenergy system, examining 41 scenarios for the future energy system that are compatible with limiting future climate change to below the 2 °C target, which were identified by the IIASA - led 2012 Global Energy Assesenergy system that are compatible with limiting future climate change to below the 2 °C target, which were identified by the IIASA - led 2012 Global Energy AssesEnergy Assessment.

But whereas dealing with the ozone hole required a simple and inexpensive chemical substitute, global warming demands a totally different way of producing energy.

One issue, of course, is that while the focus is on developing or refining energy technologies with limited or no emissions of greenhouse gases, the discussion is taking place in a world where real - time pressures are driving the expansion of conventional fossil fuel menus to keep up with ballooning global energy demand.

But it's worth adding because that level of disinvestment is so clearly incompatible with trajectories for global energy demand (the same is true in agriculture).

The combined strength of SkyPower's wealth of global experience in developing utility - scale solar parks and Grupo Uribe's long - standing credible presence in the Mexican energy sector enables the joint venture to rapidly deploy its capital and resources in order to immediately execute on large - scale solar development opportunities to align with Mexico's demand for solar.

Low demand (e.g., due to a significant increase in energy efficiency) is combined with high RE deployment, no employment of CCS and a global nuclear phase - out by 2045 in the third mitigation scenario, Advanced Energy [R] evolution 2010 (Teske et al., 2010)(henceforth ER - energy efficiency) is combined with high RE deployment, no employment of CCS and a global nuclear phase - out by 2045 in the third mitigation scenario, Advanced Energy [R] evolution 2010 (Teske et al., 2010)(henceforth ER - Energy [R] evolution 2010 (Teske et al., 2010)(henceforth ER - 2010).

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.

Providing energy for all would have a minimal impact on global energy demand, with an increase of 0.2 % (37 million tonnes of oil equivalent) relative to our base case.

The study is the first to model demand for oil, gas and thermal coal under the International Energy Agency's Beyond 2 Degrees Scenario introduced last year, aligned with 1.75 C, the mid-point of the Paris Agreement, and compare it with the IEA's New Policies Scenario, aligned with 2.7 C, consistent with emissions policies announced by global governments.

The Assessed 2oC Scenarios produce a variety of views on the potential impacts on global energy demand in total and by specific types of energy, with a range of possible growth rates for each type of energy (above chart).

Internationally, the energy consumption of China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico will lead to a major global demand increase, which is likely to be met in large part from fossil fuels,» warning that the capacity to deal with these very substantial potential emissions «must urgently be developed.»

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...

With 1000 + articles worldwide, the report made a noteworthy contribution to a global public discussion on peak fossil fuel demand, including an endorsement from Nick Butler at the FT that «it deserves to be read by everyone working in the energy sector, by policy makers and perhaps most urgently by investors».

In this paper, produced by Carbon Tracker, Energy Transition Advisors and Earth Track, potential coal supply from the PRB is compared with a demand profile consistent with an International Energy Agency (IEA) scenario to restrict global warming to a two degrees Celsius (2 °C) outcome, in line with the upper limit at the recent COP21 agreement in Paris.

Within the context of Connecticut energy demand and climate laws, the team is reviewing and synthesizing the findings of three separate New England natural gas demand reports released in 2015, examining issues related to compliance with Connecticut's Global Warming Solutions Act, and placing these findings in the context of expected near - and medium - term capacity and demand of natural gas in Connecticut.

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.

Several studies have shown that global energy demand, roughly 12.5 TW increasing to 17 TW in 2030, can be met with just 2.5 % of accessible wind and solar resources, using current technologies [refs below].

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.

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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Next week's Senate hearing is timely, with EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski unveiling the agency's International Energy Outlook, which forecasts that global energy demand will rise nearly 50 percent between now andEnergy Outlook, which forecasts that global energy demand will rise nearly 50 percent between now andenergy demand will rise nearly 50 percent between now and 2040.

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Global energy demand will increase by about 25 percent by 2040, with most increases coming from non-OECD countries, especially China and India.

WWF's report, produced with researchers at Dutch organizations Ecofys and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, says the share of oil, coal, gas and nuclear in the global energy mix could be cut down to 5 % by 2050, and energy saving measures can cut total demand by 15 % from 2005 levels, starting from an assumed baseline of 520EJ / a.

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.

Faced with the need to rapidly reduce greenhouse emissions, many believe that energy efficiency and renewable energy sources can completely replace fossil fuels and meet global energy demand.

In particular, it reviews the main challenges faced by the countries of the region in their quest for sustainable development, with a focus on emerging trends related to increasing demands for infrastructure development, energy supply, and commodity exports, as well as opportunities offered by the global response to climate change.

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].

The energy trajectory that is consistent with the agreed climate goals (the World Energy Outlook's 450 Scenario) has global oil demand peaking inenergy trajectory that is consistent with the agreed climate goals (the World Energy Outlook's 450 Scenario) has global oil demand peaking inEnergy Outlook's 450 Scenario) has global oil demand peaking in 2018.

As Eban Goodstein, Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, so aptly shared immediately following the election, «Our work will not go away... Meeting the needs of billions of more people all aspiring to a better quality of life demands that we still rewire the world with clean energy, still reinvent the global food system, still rebuild smart and inclusive cities, and fundamentally, put sustainability and sufficiency at the heart of what we are doing on the planet.

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.

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.

Although more efficient or higher energy star rating houses may experience less absolute changes in energy requirement due to changing climate, they appear to have greater percentage changes in H / C energy demand, especially in regions with a H / C balanced temperate climate such as in Sydney where the increase is projected to be up to 120 % and 530 % for high star rating houses when the global temperature increases 2 °C and 5 °C respectively, potentially posing significant pressures on the capacity of local energy supply

The share of coal in the global energy mix is forecast to decline to 26 % in 2022, from 27 % in 2016 because of sluggish demand compared with other fuels.

Efficiency is good and we should strive for more, but it won't eliminate the need to develop enormous quantities of cheap and zero carbon energy to meet the demands of the growing global economy.6, 7 Can't we solve global warming with renewables?

Along with a drop in demand for energy, the slowdown in global, and in particular Chinese, demand for rare minerals has impacted the industry significantly.