Sentences with phrase «clean fuel sector»

What we found is that a well - designed Clean Fuel Standard — informed by experience with similar policies in California and B.C. — would not only help Canada cut pollution in keeping with our commitment under the Paris Agreement, it would create jobs in Canada's clean fuel sector and grow a new segment of our economy.

Clean fuel use in Canada could more than triple by 2030 with a Clean Fuel Standard, growing our clean fuel sector by $ 5.6 - billion a year.

Not exact matches

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

It came with a suite of complementary policies that included a low - carbon fuel regulation, a ban on coal - fired electricity and a private sector power call for clean and renewable electricity.

«Not only will EPA actions to curb carbon pollution through the Clean Power Plan and new fuel standards combat climate change, they will encourage economic growth, spur innovation in our energy sector, and improve public health for all of our communities.»

Speaking at the launch event, European Commissioner for Climate Action & Energy Miguel Arias Cañete said: «The European energy sector is undergoing a change of paradigm - from a system based on fossil fuels, towards a more efficient, more sustainable, clean energy sector.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

Consumption skyrockets even as efficiency improves To clean up its power sector, Singapore has switched from burning oil for electricity to burning natural gas, the cleanest form of fossil fuels.

Despite concerted global efforts to reduce carbon emissions through the expansion of clean and renewable energy resources, fossil fuels continued to dominate the global energy sector in 2012, according to new figures released yesterday by the Worldwatch Institute.

The only way to do that, as studies have shown, is to have an extremely clean electricity system and to significantly increase the use of that electricity to offset the use of fossil fuels in other sectors.

Awareness of the oil and gas sector's methane problem is affecting the «clean» fuel reputation of natural gas.

Paving the Way for Electric Drive in Much Larger Truck Sector: In both the U.S. and China, the transit sector has been the early adopter of advanced technologies and cleaner fuels in the heavy - duty vehicle sector.

Although the most visible example of the future of electric mobility is the consumer electric car, the commercial transportation sector and heavy industry are two major areas where transitioning to cleaner fuels will have a big impact on air quality, GHG emissions, and other undesirable consequences of fossil fuels.

Gatti's work is focused on efforts to reduce emissions in the transportation sector in the Northeast region, through electrification, efficiency, and clean fuels.

Instead Chairman Hochberg and the Bank continue to doggedly promote deadly and outdated fossil fuel technology at a time when the rest of the world is investing in the cutting edge, emerging clean energy sector.

At the same time, cleaner fuels produced by our country's world - class refining sector have helped make today's cars and trucks 99 percent cleaner for common pollutants than their 1970s forebears.

The American Lung Association supports programs and policies to encourage a transition from fossil fuel and biomass use in the residential and commercial sectors to cleaner alternatives.

The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan already calls for existing power plants to trim emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, and the administration is looking to use the EPA to force further improvements in fuel efficiency in the transportation sector, among other measures.

Wind energy will be an important player in cleaning electricity grids in Alberta and Saskatchewan and across Canada clean electricity grids will be needed for reducing fossil fuel use in other sectors through electrification and in the United States through clean energy exports.

It is simple, would move us away from carbon - based fuels, would cost most consumers nothing, and would stimulate innovation in the clean - energy sector.

Similarly, a decision by EPA to classify biomass fuels as «carbon neutral» in its Clean Power Plan regulations would boost that sector more than a well - designed and hefty carbon tax would shrink it.

Cost and Adoption Rates of Fuel - Saving Technologies for Trailers in the Canadian On - Road Freight Sector: Pollution Probe collaborated with the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) on a study to better understand the costs, performance levels, and current adoption rates of fuel - saving technologies for trailers in the Canadian on - road freight secFuel - Saving Technologies for Trailers in the Canadian On - Road Freight Sector: Pollution Probe collaborated with the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) on a study to better understand the costs, performance levels, and current adoption rates of fuel - saving technologies for trailers in the Canadian on - road freight secfuel - saving technologies for trailers in the Canadian on - road freight sector.

Advancing clean fuels: we need to end our reliance on fossil fuels to power our transportation sector.

To decrease Monoglia's dependency on such fuels and to reduce the environmental impact of the Mongolian energy sector, the government has set an ambitious objective: By 2020, clean energy from renewable sources is supposed to reach twenty to twenty - five percent of the Mongolian energy mix.

«With a clean electricity system comes opportunities to reduce fossil fuel usage in these sectors: for example, electric vehicles displace...

Because by pushing power generators to ditch fossil fuels for cleaner alternatives, the plan aimed to not only protect our planet, but accelerate the renewable energy revolution already underway across the country and grow jobs in the green - tech sector that already employs over 3 million Americans.

«With a clean electricity system comes opportunities to reduce fossil fuel usage in these sectors: for example, electric vehicles displace petroleum use and electric heat pumps avoid the use of natural gas and oil for space and water heating in buildings.»

Clean energy jobs are high paying jobs and more people are already employed by this growing sector than by the fossil fuel industry.

However, despite this market reality, the NEP's reliance on thermal power fuels scepticism about India's commitment to clean energy, and could distort investor confidence in the renewables sector.

A Clean Fuel Standard is a triple clean - energy win for Washington's transportation sector and cliClean Fuel Standard is a triple clean - energy win for Washington's transportation sector and cliclean - energy win for Washington's transportation sector and climate.

The directives seem to forget that the use of renewable fuels are not the only way to reduce CO2 emissions and make the transport sector cleaner / greener.

4 Hunger Biofuels have long been hailed as a clean, green, renewable alternative to fossil fuels, tailor made for the transport sector.

From the perspective of the Alliance to Save Energy, what they are doing is very important, because we believe that the cheapest, quickest, and the cleanest way to improve and reduce energy use in the transportation sector is by improving fuel economy and that's something that plug - in hybrid electric vehicles can do in spades.

Specifically, a clean - energy investment agenda generates more than three times the number of jobs within the United States as does spending the same amount of money in the fossil fuel sectors.

Although the transportation sector is made up of more than CAFE covered vehicles, reducing average fuel economies is as detrimental to the environment as revising downward or rescinding the Clean Power Plan (CPP).

Because Ontario is contractually obligated to pay for most of the production costs of curtailed and exported energy, OSPE believes it would be better to find productive uses for the surplus clean electricity to displace fossil fuel consumption in other economic sectors.

Growing economic headwinds in the fossil fuel sector — particularly in the coal and oil industries — may bring about radical change much sooner than Obama's Clean Power Plan.

«I'm optimistic because through DivestInvest, you can avoid the risks facing the fossil fuel sector, limit the wider climate risks, and make attractive returns from the clean economy,» said Sarah Butler - Sloss, Chairman of the Ashden Trust and Founder, Ashden.

If that sector is ammonia, we will have clean ammonia for food, the beginnings of a clean liquid fuel supply, and a suite of technologies that can take us into a clean future.

NCSEA works with its members and partners to transform our state and region's energy system through leading - edge market innovation and policy advocacy primarily in ten clean energy technology sectors: alternative fuel vehicles (primarily electric vehicles), biogas, energy efficiency, energy storage, fuel cells, geothermal, hydropower / marine, smart grid, solar, and wind.

«The electricity sector has embarked on an unstoppable shift from its high - pollution, dirty - fueled past to a safer, cleaner - powered future, and the stay can not reverse that trend.»

Of course, Volkswagen will continue to pursue the development of fuel efficient engines in all sectors, following the tracks of the gas engines with TFSI and the diesels with Clean - Diesel TDI (Think Blue Motion), as well as following their plans to introduce a large hybrid motor, to debut in the Audi Q7.

With the energy sector showing signs of profound, disruptive change, and with the former chairman of Duke Energy arguing that a price on carbon is inevitable, investors are rightly spooked by the prospect of a carbon bubble — whereby fossil fuel assets become stranded because they either can't be exploited due to climate concerns, or clean energy alternatives simply squeeze them out of the marketplace.

Of course now the mantle of innovation in the automotive sector lies with plug - in vehicles, but regular hybrids without the ability to charge from a power outlet are still much superior to non-hybrids when it comes to reducing fuel consumption and cleaning up tailpipe emissions.

To dramatically cut emissions from this sector, a comprehensive solution must include improved vehicle fuel efficiency, smart growth policies that reduce vehicle miles traveled, and clean fuel alternatives.

Guidance recommends interventions across sectors, including comprehensive sexuality education in schools; higher age limits for alcohol consumption; mandating seat - belts and helmets through laws; reducing access to and misuse of firearms; reducing indoor air pollution through cleaner cooking fuels; and increasing access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.