Sentences with phrase «decline of the fossil fuel»

DENVER — Even as governments worldwide have largely failed to limit emissions of global warming gases, the decline of fossil fuel production may reduce those emissions significantly, experts said yesterday during a panel discussion at the Geological Society of America meeting.

2018 must be the year that a managed decline of fossil fuel production is agreed to and begun.

Bill H: «2018 must be the year that a managed decline of fossil fuel production is agreed to and begun.»

Entitled «The Sky's Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production,» the report says that just burning fossil fuels from projects presently in operation will produce enough greenhouse gas emissions to push the world well past 2 °C of warming this century.

At a time when countries must be planning for a just transition and a managed decline of their fossil fuel sectors, Norway is doing the opposite: it is looking for ways to keep adding new reserves to the mix.

Publicly commit to managing the decline of the fossil fuel industry within the Paris goals of 1.5 degrees Celsius or well below 2 degrees Celsius.

The report confirms that while Norway has precedent - setting potential, the country must step up and lead in a managed decline of its fossil fuel sector.

And perhaps of more immediate concern, the dismantling of the old economy and the decline of the fossil fuel industry is being fiercely resisted by those who own it.

For my money, they are merely a symptom of a power struggle related to the decline of fossil fuels.

In short — will this be a managed decline of fossil fuel production, or an unmanaged decline?

While all countries will need to undergo a managed decline of their fossil fuel sectors, the poorest nations will need significant support, including being allowed to burn their fair share of the global carbon budget to aid in the transition.

Two redevelopment proposals in Europe and North America are portending a possible renewable energy transition for hard - hit coal communities facing dislocation from the decline of the fossil fuel resource.

The Sky's the Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production

The year the world turned, primarily because the market woke up to the economic threat posed by climate change and the economic opportunity in the inevitable decline of fossil fuels.

The Lofoten Declaration calls for no new exploration or expansion of oil, coal, or gas, and a managed decline of the fossil fuel sector.

calls for no new exploration or expansion of oil, coal, or gas, and a managed decline of the fossil fuel sector.

Norway has all of the characteristics of a country that must be a first mover in the managed decline of its fossil fuel sector, and they are feeling the heat (see here, here, and here).

calls for a managed decline of the fossil fuel sector in line with the Paris climate goals.

* distance in time from Hiroshima, the Cold War, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and the protest movement of the 70's (in the main) * aging population, meaning many younger respondents don't have personal experience of this negative history * immigration (in Australia particularly), from countries with nuclear power already, or which didn't have strong antinuclear movements * willingness to reconsider the option, based on both climate change, and the increasingly visible decline of fossil fuels * smarter, better educated population

Not exact matches

Yet, despite this decline, Arctic temperatures have soared and the most likely culprit is the build - up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning, forest clearing and other human activity, Kaufmann and his colleagues wrote.

That's been the goal of solar panel makers for a long time, because as those prices decline electricity from the sun costs the same as, or is even cheaper than electricity from burning fossil fuels.

From a climate perspective, there is some good news about the likely decline in the growth of fossil fuel production discussed by others at the panel, Tans said.

The uptake of fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) by the ocean increases seawater acidity and causes a decline in carbonate ion concentrations.

The Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's most sweeping climate policy aiming to cut emissions from power plants that burn fossil fuels, is another factor in the decline of the coal industry.

As a result there is really no controversy about the cause of the declining pH. The decline in pH of 0.1 units since the 1800s and the present rate of decline of -0.0017 units per year bear the clear stamp of the hand of man, i.e. the burning of fossil fuels.

The new study, published last week in the journal Environmental Research Letters, showed that emissions of sulfur dioxide, a common air pollutant released during coal and fossil fuel combustion, increased from 2000 to 2006, after which they started to decline.

A 6 % / year decrease of fossil fuel emissions beginning in 2013, with 100 GtC reforestation, achieves a CO2 decline to 350 ppm near the end of this century (Fig. 5A).

Since 2005 the consumption of higher carbon fossil fuels has begun to decline very significantly, which has caused individual U.S. end - use Sectors» carbon emissions to also decline.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil - fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery.

The drought - induced decline of carbon - dense tropical forests and their replacement by lower - carbon savannas would release enormous amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere, amplifying global warming far beyond the effects of just the CO2 released by burning fossil fuels.

In this century, given continuing growth in the use of fossil fuels, many climate scientists see the concentration exceeding 450 parts per million or even 550 parts per million before stabilizing and — someday, perhaps — declining.

I have yet to see how society will replace our present massive use of fossil carbon in time to minimize the impact of the decline in available low cost liquid fuels after Peak Oil.

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.

A reduction in fossil fuel usage means a decline in standards of living (though not, necessarily, quality of life).

Discussion of fossil fuel depletion has no positive outcome, as it is a monotonic decline with no respite.

Climate change, global economic instability, overpopulation, erosion of community, declining biodiversity, and resource wars, have all stemmed from the availability of cheap, non-renewable fossil fuels.

So, observing that C13 in the atmosphere has been declining steadily though very slightly since 1850, they claim that this is due to man's burning of fossil fuels, which are generally believed to be derived from fossilized plant matter.

If declining alternative energy prices are the hammer on fossil fuels, then the onset of climate change is the anvil.

With the recent steep fall in oil prices and associated declines in other energy prices, the stars are aligned for adopting a carbon tax on consumption of fossil fuels, Lawrence Summers, a former treasury secretary and presidential adviser, says in the Washington Post.

Rapidly declining costs of wind and solar energy technologies, increasing concerns about the environmental and climate change impacts of fossil fuels, and sustained investment in renewable energy projects all point to a not - so - distant future in which renewable energy plays a pivotal role in the electric power system of the 21st century.

And not coincidentally, as renewables» share of electrical generation has grown, that of fossil fuels has declined.

The introduction of machines powered by cheap and easily accessible fossil fuels led to a decline in the use of wind power, but since reserves of these fuels are finite and as the world becomes more conscious of the pollution generated by these fuels, focus has turned once again to tapping this free source of energy.

In the present work, a multidisciplinary approach is used to examine how contributions of H2SO4 and MSA to particle formation will change in a large coastal urban area as anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions of SO2 decline.

I guess my observation is that if fossil fuel use will necessarily decline naturally, due to the laws of nature and physics, then that is a fruitless avenue to expend resources.

Increasing regulations are driving the sulfur content and use of fossil fuels down (21), resulting in declining atmospheric SO2 concentration and particulate sulfate concentrations.

CO2 production will decline as fossil fuels decline, solving the problem, if any, of anthropogenically induced climate change.

The motivating question was: «Is the dramatic decline in oil prices a complete gift to the West because of the enormous funds being saved, or is it an unintended Trojan horse because development of renewable energy as well as new fossil - fuel sources will decline in the West, posing longer new challenges?»

Meanwhile, as the costs of producing fossil fuels rise, those for renewables are in sharp decline (PDF).

Taken together nuclear and renewable energy sources have led to a decline in overall share of fossil fuels from 88 % in 1990 to about 86 %, the lowest in decades.

Convinced that an energy transition from fossil fuels to green energy is under way, the federal government hasn't seemed too concerned about the decline of Canadian oil and gas.