Sentences with phrase «current energy policies»

Hoeller, P. and J. Coppel (1992), Carbon Taxes and Current Energy Policies in OECD Countries, OECD Economic Studies, No. 19, pp. 167 - 93.

If we want America to remain strong and wish to ensure that future generations have secure and prosperous lives, we must consider our current energy policies in the light of how these policies will affect our grandchildren.»

It is unlikely that DOE's current level of R&D funding or the nation's current energy policies will be sufficient to deploy alternative energy sources in the next 25 years that will reverse our growing dependence on imported oil or the adverse environmental effects of using conventional fossil energy.

While current energy policies play key roles in providing incentives for the use of solar energy in Indiana, businesses have an additional cost - saving option not available to residences: Businesses can deduct their investment in solar from their revenues — a tax policy known as depreciation.

He criticised current energy policy, saying «we may as well be burning # 50 notes outside our front doors».

While current energy policy focuses on preventing greenhouse gas emissions, the results show that freshwater impacts also need to be considered when deciding future national and international energy policies.

Developments in Key Non-Member Countries The Compendium furthermore analyses current energy policy trends in China, India and Russia.

In an exclusive interview with The Australian yesterday, Alinta Energy chief executive Jeff Dimery said current energy policy lacked vision and called for existing investments made under the RET to be grandfathered and further subsidies scrapped.

Remember this is the very architect of our current energy policy, the man who steered the suicidally expensive Climate Change Act through Parliament; the man who even this week pledged to decarbonise the entire British economy (not just the electricity sector) by 2030, meaning that nobody will be permitted to heat their house with gas.

Not exact matches

«OPEC's current strategy hinges heavily on the prospects of future demand growth,» Bassam Fattouh and Andreas Economou at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies wrote in a new paper on OPEC's policy and choices.

On December 2nd, Campbell Soup Company came out against the bill, saying that, «the current version of Senate Bill 58 would overhaul the current state policy on energy efficiency and renewable energy standards and discourage continued investment in renewable energy in the state:»

Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) notes that the bill protects an estimated «thousands» of solar jobs which have been at risk due to the expiration of targets under the state's current solar policy.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cEnergy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cenergy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

One of his current priorities is working with like - minded organizations across the country to advocate for a more coherent national approach to energy and resource policy.

Jenny Saunders OBE, Chief Executive of National Energy Action stated: «The CCC report highlights the UK Government must realign current policies and increase investment overall in programmes that can create warmth, comfort and make fuel bills affordable for vulnerable households.

The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timePolicy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timepolicy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

The first, the Ulster County Legislature's Energy and Environment Committee will meet on Thursday, May 3rd at 5:30 pm (at UCRRA located at 999 Flatbush Road in Kingston, NY) and, more importantly in order for your voice to be heard, a public hearing is set for May 23rd (VIEW our facebook event) with a potential vote to follow that would establish both new policy and a higher fee for our current commingled system imposed upon Kingston.

Despite the current problems of the Coalition it is certainly true that the PM's alliance with the Liberal Democrats has meant the Cameroonians at the head of the Conservative Party have been able to pursue their policies on tax, renewable energy, Europe and crime that would have been much harder if Brady, Carswell, Davis, Redwood and other members of the Conservative mainstream had held the balance of power.

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) is urging the Minority in Parliament to revise its current posture towards attempts to review Ghana's power agreement with AMERI.

Current polls show Harper's Conservative Party lagging behind the Liberals, who have pledged to undo many of the prime minister's energy and environmental policies and to push for a «pan-Canadian framework» for combating climate change.

Every day seemed to bring monumental developments in all spheres of current events, from international relations and gender inequality to health care and domestic energy policy.

Picks reflect the incoming administration's promised commitment to science as well as shifts in current energy and environment policies

A new analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term, according to a study appearing today in Nature.

The study, published in the journal Nature Energy, looks unsparingly at the history of hype around alternative fuel vehicles and what policies and innovations are needed to move from current shortfalls to widespread commercialization of low - carbon vehicles.

They indicate that particulates are the greatest current environmental risk to human health, with the impact on life expectancy in many parts of the world similar to the effects of every man, woman and child smoking cigarettes for several decades,» says study co-author Michael Greenstone, the director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School.

Speakers included Audun Rosland from the Norwegian Environment Agency who explained current climate policy and its challenges and constraints, and Peter Wehrheim from the European Commission who set out the options for including emissions from land use and forestry (LULUCF) in the EU 2030 climate and energy framework.

«Under current policies, we estimate that energy use and CO2 emissions would increase by a third by 2020 and almost double by 2050.

Purdue energy economist Wally Tyner found that current policies enable Indiana businesses to save money by using solar energy.

Inman plots Hubbert's work and short - lived impact on US energy policy, until the geologist's death in 1989, but his uncritical approach relegates any attempt to find current relevance for Hubbert to a 20 - page epilogue.

Wigley also assumed no energy policy changes from current standards, like renewable energy incentives or carbon taxes.

Mahowald said current U.S. energy policies will likely lead to large negative impacts on ocean fishery productivity, but there is hope: «Renewable energy has become more affordable, so as a country, we're moving more toward renewables,» she said.

Such a pathway is exceedingly difficult to achieve, given the current widespread absence of policies to drive rapid movement to carbon - free energies and the lifetime of energy infrastructure in place.

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Advocates and policymakers should invest energy and resources to develop bold federal policies to combat the current administration's agenda and to serve as a road map once the political powers in Washington change.

I Guess the Bush Administration Doesn't Think Highly of Pickens» or Gore's Proposals The fact that this proposal is announced just days after Al Gore calls for all U.S. electricity be generated renewably within 10 years, and two weeks after T. Boone Pickens unveiled his plan to radically increase U.S. wind power and use natural gas to offset petroleum in transportation, shows how mired in business - as - usual thinking regarding energy and environmental policy the current administration is.

Ma also calculated the expected number of premature deaths in China in the future if the country meets its current targets to restrict coal combustion and emissions through a combination of energy policies and pollution controls.

That challenge has been largely ignored, with the policy focus placed on emissions and emissions reduction and the political will to reduce them, without due regard to the current limits on alternative low carbon energy technologies.

A comprehensive policy will be needed — one with multiple reduction triggers (Downstream Cap and Trade as well as CO2 based CAFE standards for example), an expansive energy R&D policy (much like the one called for by Nordhaus and Shellenberg), and an adaptation plan for areas that will be critically effected by the warming predicted without any current reduction policy.

The advisers called for a review and shift in energy subsidies and incentives, a review of energy policies and progress every four years, and a tripling of the current $ 5 billion a year for energy research, development, demonstration and deployment, with $ 12 billion of the resulting total going to advancing the frontiers of energy sciences and large - scale demonstrations of promising technologies.

I like the ideas of the PCAP report considerably, but we should all bear in mind that if a Republican wins there will be no change in our current disasterous energy policy (with the exceptions of Ron Paul and possibly John McCain).

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.

Energy groups risk wasting $ 1.6 trillion of investment by assuming that current emissions - cutting policies will not be tightened up in the light of the latest science and international climate change goals, according to the think tank Carbon Tracker.

«For example, adopting best - in - Canada policies on renewable energy, staged phase - out of coal power and pricing carbon pollution in Saskatchewan and Alberta would be three times more effective in reducing carbon pollution than current policies.

Apart from many other facts and estimates concerning energy trends the report shows two interesting scenarios: the New Policies Scenario (where current G20 agreements are implemented) and the... Continue reading →

Assuming that current and announced climate policies are implemented, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that, despite the extensive, worldwide government support for renewables and increasing energy efficiency, fossil fuels are expected to meet approximately 75 % of primary energy demand in 2040, down marginally from the historic share of aroundEnergy Agency (IEA) forecasts that, despite the extensive, worldwide government support for renewables and increasing energy efficiency, fossil fuels are expected to meet approximately 75 % of primary energy demand in 2040, down marginally from the historic share of aroundenergy efficiency, fossil fuels are expected to meet approximately 75 % of primary energy demand in 2040, down marginally from the historic share of aroundenergy demand in 2040, down marginally from the historic share of around 80 %.

Exxon Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson led the drive, telling an audience at The Economic Club in Washington D.C. current policies are out of step with the energy landscape in the shale era.

That's because the analysis is based purely on announced projects in each country and assumes that current subsidies will expire and that energy policies around the world will remain on their current bearing.

Policy recommendations are made regarding the required reform of current market and regulatory frameworks to accommodate high shares of such energy sources in a timely, cost - effective, and secure fashion.

ExxonMobil expects wind power, solar power, and biofuels to supply about 2 percent of world energy by 2030, despite the fact that current calculations by the Renewable Energy Policy Network estimate that renewable energy already supplies roughly 4 percent of world energy by 2030, despite the fact that current calculations by the Renewable Energy Policy Network estimate that renewable energy already supplies roughly 4 percent of world Energy Policy Network estimate that renewable energy already supplies roughly 4 percent of world energy already supplies roughly 4 percent of world power.

A combination of technology and policy solutions could provide a pathway to reduce direct carbon dioxide emissions from the cement industry by 24 % below current levels by 2050, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI).