Sentences with phrase «dominated by fossil fuels»

Even if renewables growth rates outpace the most optimistic projections, Utility Dive reported at the time, the U.S. grid in 2040 would still be dominated by fossil fuels if more regulatory action isn't taken to curb greenhouse gas pollution.

The energy infrastructure that we inherited from the 20th century is one dominated by fossil fuels and uranium, mined in relatively few localities in the world.

And isn't all of the above just a sop to the status quo, in which a diverse array of energy sources dominated by fossil fuels provides the energy for the rest of the economy?

Beginning to use plant - based products will certainly help the company achieve its sustainability goals, though LEGO is just doing their part in a global economy still dominated by fossil fuels — finite resources that are the primary contributor to human - caused climate change.

FPL's energy portfolio is dominated by fossil fuels, specifically natural gas.

Figure 7 China's energy consumption is still dominated by fossil fuels and coal in particular.

Since, the solar power is Green House Gas (GHG) emissions free, the power generated will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be approximately 93,022 tonnes of CO2e per year, thereon displacing 95,145 MWh / year amount of electricity from the generation - mix of power plants connected to the INDIAN GRID, which is mainly dominated by fossil fuel based power plant.

To ensure that the energy market remains dominated by its fossil fuel company funders, ALEC promotes an array of «model» bills that undermine efforts to protect the environment.

«The city is dominated by fossil fuel - powered cars.The elite still gets around, but most urban dwellers face poor transport infrastructure.»

Not exact matches

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

«Unfortunately, our governments have become so dominated by money that both parties are heavily dependent on contributions from industry, including especially the fossil fuel industry.»

World energy consumption is forecast to increase by 44 percent from 2006 to 2030, with almost two - thirds of that coming from developing countries and fossil fuels that continue to dominate energy supply, according to the Energy Information Administration's 2009 outlook report [pdf] released today.

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.

Although renewable energy is making good progress, large - scale power generation is still dominated by burning fuel, whether uranium or fossil carbon.

Since global fossil fuel use is dominated by the G8, and since much deforestation involves raw material export to G8 countries, the failure to plainly address these issues is an abdication of responsibility.

Here in California, the farming landscape in the Central Valley is dominated by absentee owned corporate farms, featuring lots of fossil fuel fertilizer and massive irrigation.

Moving beyond the country's, and the world's, existing energy menu, which is still by far dominated by abundant and relatively cheap fossil fuels, is hard, whatever your preferred path.

Our «free» communication is not free; for example the New York Times holds on to its independence but is hardly free of its major financiers, who are the ever - growing wealth / fossil fuel antiregulation robber baron freedom sector dominated by ever fewer people.

After all, the goal of reducing CO2 emissions by eliminating fossil fuel usage was there right at the start, when the mainstream scientific view was still that negative feedbacks dominated the system.

Right now, the public policy debate is dominated by the people who oppose divesting the energy economy from fossil fuels.

Similarly, China's peaking its emissions by 2030 means that its energy system will remain fossil fuel dominated.

In a climate discourse dominated by targets and carbon caps, Gates has provided a refreshing and clear - eyed look at the first - order importance of direct public investment to develop clean, affordable technologies to replace fossil fuels on a global scale.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasts that by 2040, the world will shift from a generation mix dominated by fossil - fuel plants to one with 60 per cent zero - emissions energy sources.

However, for fossil fuels, the fatalities are dominated by the fatalities to members of the public due to the toxic emissions.

«Just as the concept of a «hiatus» or «pause» began to dominate the discourse in our field because of factors external to the science itself (i.e. the politically - motivated insistence by climate change deniers and fossil - fueled politicians that there was a «pause» or «hiatus» in warming), so too are some authors caught up in a «Groundhog Day» exercise of writing repeated articles about how there wasn't a pause.»

Although projected increases in greenhouse gas concentrations caused by fossil fuel combustion are expected to dominate 21st century climate change, some studies suggest that anthropogenic land use may yet be at least as important and may remain so in the near future (8).

The results, published in the journal Earth's Future, point to two possible pathways: 1) a relatively steady but substantial rise in sea levels even if we sharply reduce global emissions, flooding 100 million people's homes worldwide by the end of the century, and 2) a wild - card world that could jeopardize civilization itself if fossil fuels continue to dominate.

Not only is gas the scarcest of the three fossil fuels (and dangerously dominated by Russia as far as Europe is concerned), but it is probably no better for greenhouse emissions than coal once the effect of leaks is considered.