Sentences with phrase «consumption patterns of the past»

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The decline in coal consumption fits an overall pattern seen in China over the past few years, which suggests that China is running out of high quality coal.

Unlike the usual situation in which consumption of services grows more quickly than goods, the past few years have seen this pattern reverse (Graph 26).

I have lived a total of 19 years outside the U.S., in three different countries, and in none of them have I seen such intense patterns of consumption (although, unfortunately, over the past 20 years, these patterns have been changing for the worse).

There are alternatives I don't think I convinced either of my two audiences that fossil fuels are going to disappear overnight, but once I drew their attention to recent declines in Chinese coal production and a stall in global carbon emissions they did appear to concede that basing future investment decisions simply on past patterns of consumption might not be the wisest of strategies.

One measure of the disposition of coal stocks, called days of burn, is an estimate of how many days a stockpile of coal would last at a plant based on past consumption patterns.

This analytical report presents past trends in domestic energy policy in the Arab region and the capacity of today's policies and institutions to reverse current unsustainable production and consumption patterns, and meet development and energy security needs.