Sentences with phrase «end use of fossil fuels»

And peak oil is easier to deal with than AGW, because unlike AGW, peak oil does not demand that we immediately end ALL use of fossil fuels.

We understand that the U.S. can not immediately end its use of fossil fuels and we also appreciate the advantages of being more energy independent.

The Fossil Free Scotland campaign aims to end the use of fossil fuels in Scotland within a generation.

Paris, the City of Light, which earned its moniker by early on adapting natural gas to light its public spaces, hosts COP21 (the 21st Conference of the Parties)-- often referred to as the UN Climate Change Conference — that aims to end the use of fossil fuels.

Most of the opposition to Keystone XL has nothing to do with our pipeline — it's about groups or individuals who want to end the use of fossil fuels.»

The sooner we take steps to end the use of fossil fuels, the better off we will be.

If we define «Adaptation to climate change» as ending the use of fossil fuels and quickly building renewable energy infrastructure, then yes, there is opposition — from established fossil fuel interests, mostly.

by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment, and Thomas Del Beccaro As appearing in Forbes In the church of climate change, carbon emissions are a sin and ending the use of fossil fuels our only prayer.

Instead, she revealed: it «is about the decarbonisation of the economy» — which means ending the use of fossil fuels, such as natural gas, oil, and coal.

Ending the use of fossil fuels isn't enough for the Club, however.

Not exact matches

Values above zero represent sources of CO2 — from fossil fuels and land use — while values below zero represent sinks of CO2, where the sources of CO2 end up.

Even the most optimistic estimates of the effects of contemporary fossil fuel use suggest that mean global temperature will rise by a minimum of 2 °C before the end of this century and that CO2 emissions will affect climate for tens of thousands of years.

«This is certainly true for fossil fuel - related approvals, where there is a clear causal connection between each phase of the fossil fuel supply chain (production, transportation, processing, and end - use) and the emissions from these activities can be estimated with existing tools and data.»

The goals include ending single use plastics, promoting alternatives to fossil fuel - based materials, promoting 100 percent recycling of plastics, corporate and government accountability, and changing human behavior concerning plastics.

«So this is a positive message: We know what to do — rapidly ending fossil fuel use complemented by a great variety of CO2 removal techniques.

«There is still time to avoid most of this warming and get to a stable climate by the end of this century, but in order to do that, we have to aggressively reduce our fossil fuel use and emissions of greenhouse gas pollutants.»

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.

And yet, their study on the use of fossil fuels doesn't end in Teller's class.

We will need to wait until the 16 academic - lead studies are completed to compare them with the national top - down emissions rate reported by Miller et al. for fossil fuel related emissions, including end uses and natural leakage, neither of which is being measured in these studies.

Energy Policy, the journal that recently published a paper laying out an ambitious plan to end fossil fuel use in New York State within a few decades, has now published a short critique by four researchers in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

There's no mention of nuclear power and a pretty simplified summary of how to end fossil fuel use with today's renewable - energy technologies.

We know what to do — rapidly ending fossil fuel use, complemented by a great variety of CO2 removal techniques.

Saudi Arabia is the second largest country subsidizing end - use fossil fuel prices, providing 69 percent of its $ 71.3 billion in fossil fuel consumption subsidies to oil, 19 percent to electricity, and 12 percent to natural gas in 2014.

Ending tropical forest loss, improving tropical forest management, and restoring 500 million hectares of tropical forests could reduce emissions enough to provide 10 - 15 years of extra time to reduce the use of fossil fuels, they write.

Values above zero represent sources of CO2 — from fossil fuels and land use — while values below zero represent sinks of CO2, where the sources of CO2 end up.

Once one deducts the small amount of oil and gas going into non-combustion end uses, the inferred possible total fossil fuel resources on this planet represent 2,873 Gt of carbon, which would generate 10,536 Gt CO2 when combusted.

Another was given by Richard Faesy at the BE conference: «We need to electrify all fossil fuel end uses,» he said, because that gives us the best chance of reducing the effects of climate change.

And, as a result of human ingenuity and the free market (which got us where we are today), new technologies will come along that will eventually replace fossil fuels for many of the lower added - value end uses, such as electrical power generation or transportation.

Saudi Arabia is the second - leading subsidizer of end - use fossil fuel prices, providing 61 percent of its $ 48.6 billion in fossil fuel consumption subsidies to oil, 26 percent to electricity, and 14 percent to natural gas in 2015.

Extinction is our choice, unless within the next 8 years we have stopped using fossil fuels, planted millions of trees, ended logging, and prepared our cities and agriculture for the inevitable sea rise.

Yes, and that's where this thing ends up with a weirder problem courtesy of the same Ozone Action place where Gelbspan and their people simultaneously somehow «obtained» the documents which have long been used to accuse skeptic climate scientists of accepting fossil fuel industry bribes in exchange for lying to the public about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

Even in Canada, the second largest hydropower producer in the world, 76 % of end use energy is provided by fossil fuels.

This does 2 things — you end up paying twice for generation, despite any claims of being cheap and secondly if your aim is the reduction of co2 you are not succeeding in that either, since u using fossil fuels when the suns not shining or the winds not blowing.

The 2016 Democratic Party Platform last July now carries this approach to a new extreme by advocating that all use of fossil fuels be ended by 2050, which is highly unlikely to even be achievable at any cost.

An Islamic climate change declaration calls for the end of fossil fuel use by 2050.

At the end of the day, counting as well the EXTRA energy used to manufacture this EXTRA generating capacity, wind farms cause MORE fossil fuels to be consumed than if they did not exist.

The ONA foresaw far - reaching economic and political effects, predicting that by the end of the twentieth century, concerns about greenhouse «could culminate in pressure for action to restrict fossil fuel use».

And he states at the end of the article that the huge decline in death rates is because of the extended use of fossil fuels.

But Waxman and Markey ended up using virtually all of the money raised from carbon auctions to buy off fossil fuel interests, leaving virtually nothing for technology innovation.

The G7 language on decarbonisation this century is not specific, however, and does not promise an end to the use of coal or other fossil fuels.

The complete end of the use of fossil fuels can never occur.

(B) Fossil fuel emissions terminate at the end of 2015, 2030, or 2050 and land use emissions terminate after 2015 in all three cases, i.e., thereafter there is no net deforestation.

Yesterday, on the eve of the UN Climate Talks, the Pacific Climate Warriors and activists from around the world used their bodies, their culture and their spirits to demand an end to the era of fossil fuels.

To achieve this lower level, there must no net increase in emissions in the second half of this century — effectively spelling the end for the coal industry, and major reductions in the use of all fossil fuels.

The Net Load Peak Energy Bill would require the CPUC and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to work with CAISO to set up, by the end of 2019, «policies or procedures» through which LSEs meet «net peak load» energy and reliability needs «while minimizing the use of fossil fuels and utilizing low - carbon technologies and electrical grid management strategies.»

Scientists say unabated fossil fuel use must be phased out well before the end of the century to limit global temperature rise to 2C — the international goal.

Instead, Simmons says they are part of President Barack Obama's larger strategy to end fossil - fuel use.

The increase in greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and from land - use changes «is unrelenting, and that, in the end, is going to dominate most of the other things that are going on» that contribute to the slowdown, he said.

There are various types of technologies that can play significant roles in mitigating climate change, including energy efficiency improvements throughout the energy system (especially at the end use side); solar, wind, nuclear fission and fusion and geothermal, biomass and clean fossil technologies, including carbon capture and storage; energy from waste; hydrogen production from non-fossil energy sources and fuel cells (Pacala and Socolow, 2004; IEA, 2006b).

We need to end the exploitation and use of fossil fuels and other dirty energy in Europe, now.