Sentences with phrase «emissions from burning fossil fuel declined»

The EIA estimates that due largely to the drop in coal - fired electricity, U.S. carbon emissions from burning fossil fuel declined 3.4 percent in 2012.

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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.

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.

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 ceFossil 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 cefossil fuels from projects presently in operation will produce enough greenhouse gas emissions to push the world well past 2 °C of warming this century.

Scientists in the US say parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of greenhouse gas emissions — which means that the long - term decline in rainfall over south and south - west Australia results from fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer by human activity.

In the first big study of the impact of the recession on climate change, the IEA found that CO 2 emissions from burning fossil fuels had undergone «a significant decline» this year - further than in any year in the last 40.

Emissions of CO2 from fossil - fuel burning jumped by 5.9 % in 2010, upending the hope that a brief decline during the recession might persist... This solidified a trend of rising emissions that will make it hard to forestall severe climatEmissions of CO2 from fossil - fuel burning jumped by 5.9 % in 2010, upending the hope that a brief decline during the recession might persist... This solidified a trend of rising emissions that will make it hard to forestall severe climatemissions that will make it hard to forestall severe climate change.