In particular, reducing
domestic demand for fossil fuels would lower the price of those fuels in other countries, thereby increasing their use in those countries.
Carbon Tracker compared
demand for fossil fuels in a 1.75 C world — the mid-point of the Paris Agreement — with demand in a 2.7 C world, looking at oil, gas and coal production to 2035 and capital investment to 2025.
Climate policy - makers, both at the domestic and international levels, have focused almost exclusively on curtailing
demand for fossil fuels energy, with scant attention, until recently, to the supply side.
A strategy to reduce
demand for fossil fuels by pricing carbon and letting the market sort it out means oil will continue to flow through pipelines as long as there is demand for it, Gillian Steward writes.
The controversial pipeline has become emblematic of our inability to reconcile world
demand for fossil fuels with the environmental imperatives imposed upon modern civilization.
The breakthrough could someday lead to a new source of the clean - burning fuel,
ease demand for fossil fuels and boost the economy of Florida, where sunshine and seawater are abundant.
In an interview at The Times last week, Fox said his focus on human - driven climate change emerged as he grappled, after that small fracking success, with the
unrelenting demand for fossil fuels and emerging impacts of warming temperatures, made emblematic by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
Feed - in tariffs on fossil energy imports to the United States would surely end up reducing
demand for fossil fuels as more and more renewable capacity became available — which is exactly what you would want to see happen if you are serious about slowing the rate of global warming.
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strong demand for all fossil fuels seems a certainty at this time, even taking into account stronger policies to mitigate global warming risks, though sustained high prices may slow growth slightly.
«GDP goes up because the fee and dividend provides a boost to consumer spending, reducing
demand for fossil fuels does not have a significant impact on American employment and reduces energy imports from abroad, and the border adjustment means American firms are on a level playing field when it comes to competing on the world market.»
And an HSBC oil markets report suggested that
if demand for fossil fuels fell because of climate - related market shifts or some other reason, then prices for oil and natural gas could fall as well.
Even with the Guardian's welcome campaign, the world still needs a transparent price on carbon pollution to
strangle demand for fossil fuels by replacing them with non-carbon alternatives.
From the abstract: «The emission scenarios used by the IPCC and by mainstream climate scientists are largely derived from the
predicted demand for fossil fuels, and in our view take insufficient consideration of the constrained emissions that are likely due to the depletion of these fuels.
Rising demand for fossil fuels would continue to drive up energy - related carbon - dioxide (CO2) emissions through to 2035, making it all but impossible to achieve the 2 °C goal, as the required reductions in emissions after 2020 would be too steep.
Policy focused on reducing
demand for fossil fuels starts from the premise that we are not able by internalizing legal - ethical mandates / strictures, foresight, and rational planning to change our behavior.
In subsequent posts I will show that resource limitations are just decades away, not centuries, and that the scramble for resources will
increase demand for fossil fuel energy.
While Trump's rolling back a policy that may have loomed over coal producers in coming decades, it's going to take more to overcome market forces and
raise demand for the fossil fuel to a level that'll put miners back to work, coal executives and analysts say.
Wary of how public concern over climate change could
drop demand for fossil fuel products, the Kochs have spent the last 15 years dumping over $ 61 million to front groups telling us that global warming doesn't exist, or that it would destroy our economy to stop runaway climate change.
Divesting from this list has been the
default demand for fossil fuel divestment campaigners across the globe and continues to be a powerful point of departure for the divestment discourse.
Second, reduced
U.S. demand for fossil fuels would result in lower global prices for those fuels, making them more attractive in unregulated countries.
This appears to indicate that companies should explain how
lower demand for fossil fuels might impact new capex on large projects or expansion plans, associated with a low demand 2 ˚C scenario.»
GRE strives to demonstrate energy - efficient technologies that can be transferred to their customers and reduce
future demand for fossil fuel - based electric generation.
For over fifteen years, rapid Chinese growth and industrialization brought a tremendous amount
of demand for fossil fuels and metals around the globe.
Referencing Architecture 2030's submission to the UNFCCC — the Roadmap to Zero Emissions: The Built Environment in a Global Transformation to Zero Emissions report — he demonstrated how a combination of reducing the built environment's
demand for fossil fuel energy while increasing the world's supply of renewable energy sources will meet the Paris Agreement's long - term 1.5 °C goal.
«All these trends point in the same direction, which is that
global demand for fossil fuels, in general, are likely to be less than companies are assuming,» said Andrew Logan, director of oil and gas and insurance programs at Ceres.
The clean energy industry's continued ability to cut costs and reduce
the demand for fossil fuels is pivotal to its success in the coming years.
The development of more efficient technologies will not necessarily lead to a reduction in
the demand for fossil fuels.