Sentences with phrase «even global energy policy»

«As one of the largest energy markets in Europe and the third - largest economy in the IEA, few countries have quite the same impact on European or even global energy policy,» said Claude Mandil, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), today in Berlin at the launch of Energy Policies of IEA Countries — Germany 2007 Review.

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The International Energy Agency, which says that global oil demand could peak around 2020 if governments adopted particularly green policies, predicts that even if it happened, oil still would account for 23 % of total global energy in 2040, down from 32 % inEnergy Agency, which says that global oil demand could peak around 2020 if governments adopted particularly green policies, predicts that even if it happened, oil still would account for 23 % of total global energy in 2040, down from 32 % inenergy in 2040, down from 32 % in 2016.

Even if U.S. energy policy goes «drill baby drill,» there will be no escape from the vicissitudes of the global oil market

Even though global emissions are forecast to decline overall to 2040, existing and planned energy policies will not be enough to improve air quality, the report said.

We would argue that global climatic disruption will make these relationships even more crucial as the ever - escalating climate change impacts permeate issues of economic security, national and international security, national energy policy, environmental and natural resource management and protection, and so on.

A 2011 Pike Research report projects that even without new pro-geothermal policies, global investment in this energy source will more than double from $ 3 billion in 2010 to $ 6.8 billion in 2020.

Germany and France will heavily shape future European and even global energy and environmental policies — Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium and other nations may also phase out their nuclear plants — but to date there has been little investigative reporting on the planned shift from nuclear energy to fossil fuels and renewables.

China's top global warming negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, is not even on the 21 - member commission that China created in January to set energy policy.

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

Last year, carbon emissions were unchanged even as the global economy grew by 3 per cent compared with 2013, according to a report by Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), a think tank linked to the UN Environment Programme.

This even more difficult and costly goal requires urgent implementation of unprecedented new energy policies, the widespread deployment of technologies still under development, and additional investments in the energy sector that could reach 1.1 % of global GDP each year between now and 2050.

It also highlights how domestic policy initiatives and seismic energy market shifts can quickly conspire to derail a once flourishing business model, even without a global climate deal, or federal carbon price.

The climate wars between the major political parties have cost us a host of lost business and employment opportunities, even a global leadership role, and yet we drift on without an energy policy that might provide some relief to rising power costs and some strategy to meet our commitments to reduce emissions.

Even in light of the recent policy work in the US energy sector, the ambitious goals and approaches to carbon emissions reductions coming out of global climate summits, and an increasing awareness of the various environmental issues we're facing, any changes we're making in our habits, systems, and policies feel like they're too little, too late.