Sentences with phrase «for fossil fuel resources»

But before doing so, pay attention to this very important note: solar energy potential and energy potential shown for the other renewable energy resources is annual potential, while the energy potential shown for the fossil fuel resources is total recoverable reserves.

For a system designed for fossil fuel resources, this will mean transforming the grid to accommodate large increases in renewable energy resources.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, however, government resources are actually flowing the other way: according to a report from the U.S. - based National Resources Defense Council, since 2009, global subsidies for fossil fuels have almost tripled to an estimated US$ 775 billion tresources are actually flowing the other way: according to a report from the U.S. - based National Resources Defense Council, since 2009, global subsidies for fossil fuels have almost tripled to an estimated US$ 775 billion tResources Defense Council, since 2009, global subsidies for fossil fuels have almost tripled to an estimated US$ 775 billion this year.

The trading of fossil fuels internationally compromises U.S. economic power in exchange for this resource.

Unlike the wells from which we get our fossil fuels, however, the resources for theological energy are renewable.

Yes it's a far stretch from UFO's to an enlightened civilization, but those who are visiting are surely more sane than this planet of nations competing for resources, polluting the water and land while still using fossil fuels, fighting in «God's» name...

The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia

The economy is primarily driven by primary industry, natural resources and secondary industry including coal mining, processing and fossil - fuel power generation [8] for the National Electricity Market.

Apart from the nuclear issue, the exploitation of Scotland's fossil - fuel resources is a major industrial activity, and even more a source of tax revenue, while there is outstanding potential for renewable energy generation, especially wind, wave and tidal.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

The climate can not afford more carbon and methane from fracked gas, or to divert any more social resources to fossil fuel development when they are needed for energy conservation, efficiency, and clean renewables.

«I welcome the president's call to implement reforms that I have been fighting for to ensure that we are not worsening climate change by giving away these fossil fuel resources at bargain - basement prices,» he said.

These fossil - fuel subsidies have allowed these countries to distribute resource revenue, bolstering legitimacy for governments, many of which are not democratically elected, Krane said.

«There is a realization that a diversified suite of renewable energy resources will displace fossil fuel,» said Monty Worthington, who is directing a tidal energy project in Alaska for the Maine - based Ocean Renewable Power Co. «To establish a place in the emerging marine renewable market, the time for [U.S.] investment is now.»

What we know from reading the actual findings of this study, as well as several other analyses of the climate impacts of fossil fuel subsidy removal, is that nixing oil, gas, and coal subsidies would be a big win for the climate, would saves money, and could free up resources to help the poorest and most vulnerable.

How will we manage our resources for instance, if we use up most of our fossil fuels and can't ship food across the country any longer?

For one thing, plant - based diets use fewer natural resources (such as water and fossil fuels) and create less pollution than meat - heavy diets.

Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.

Drummond's inspiring picture book introduces the small Danish island of Samsø, which has received global attention for its «energy independence,» achieved by shifting from fossil fuels to renewable resources, such as wind power, captured on its shores.

A good resource for seeing which funds have fossil fuel investments is As We Sow's Fossil Free Funds site: https://fossilfreefundfossil fuel investments is As We Sow's Fossil Free Funds site: https://fossilfreefundFossil Free Funds site: https://fossilfreefunds.org/

Much of the resources and production for those fossil fuels is in politically unstable areas, which is always negative for investing.

Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities is part of Saraceno's larger, long - term project titled Aerocene, the artist's vision for a future era in which humanity minimizes the impact on the planet's fossil - fuel resources, and instead resides in collective airborne cities.

The exhibition is part of Saraceno's larger, long - term project titled «Aerocene», the artist's vision for a future era in which humanity minimizes the impact on the planet's fossil - fuel resources, and instead resides in collective airborne cities.

Unfortunately, fossil fuels are so abundant that resource depletion is not going to make them too expensive to use, so that emissions fall in time (indeed, resource depletion of oil this side of 2050 will mean coal and gas will be used for synthetic fuels - pushing emissions up even faster that I think the IEA recognise).

He's a quirky, sometimes prickly, thinker who, for example, sees a fossil fuel, methane, as a keystone — and greatly neglected — resource serving as a bridge to a climate - friendly energy future.

Yet more evidence that the world has vast commercially - exploitable wind and solar energy resources, that are more than sufficient to produce more than enough electricity for all current uses, plus the electrification of ground transport, without fossil fuels or nuclear power.

The solution to a sustainable future will always be walking a tightrope between a need for population control & free markets until geothermal strategies for base load power transplants fossil fuels and indeed until better water availability and a host of other finite resources become magically available.

While climate science promotes the narrative of cooperation for stopping the use of fossil fuels, one just need to look to how much money is spent in national defence budgets to see that the world is still fiercely competing to control the remaining economically viable resources of fossil fuels.

I agree strongly with Dan Kammen on the potential supplies of fossil fuel resources, and the implications of those supplies for greenhouse - gas emissions.

Investments that encourage the construction of new renewable resources will cut the demand for fossil fuel - based electricity, reducing air pollution and global warming emissions.

From a global perspective, we are faced with daunting challenges as documented in World Resources, 1996 - 97: the accelerating confluence of population expansion, increased demand for energy, food, clean drinking water, adequate housing, the destructive environmental effects of pollution from fossil fuels and nuclear waste, plus the growing divergence between the haves and have - nots and the potential for ensuing conflicts.

New analysis released today by Oil Change International finds that World Bank Group finance for projects that included exploration for new fossil fuel resources reached a new high in FY2013, at nearly $ 1 billion out of the $ 2.7 billion spent in total for fossil fuel projects.

This demonstrates that there is significant waste in the treatment of fossil fuels that will disappear when a price signal for wasting the resource is sent to consumers; further, we know there are significant and readily available alternatives for energy to energy derived from burning carbon, and when the price is made clear and fair, the preference for these alternatives is amply illustrated in the Market; from these two effects we see that the Law of Supply and Demand is relevant to the pricing of CO2E, and not monopolistic pricing.

This demonstrates that there is significant waste in the treatment of fossil fuels that will disappear when a price signal for wasting the resource is sent to consumers;

In contrast to the Obama vision, the plan here preserves a central role for coal — the dirtiest fossil fuel in terms of emissions of greenhouse gases, but a resource that China has in abundance.

The resources required to rapidly move away from fossil fuels and prepare for the coming heavy weather could pull huge swaths of humanity out of poverty, providing services now sorely lacking, from clean water to electricity.

«Companies spent over $ 670 billion (# 430 billion) last year searching for and developing new fossil fuel resources.

Instead, the Coalition aims to reinvest District funds in community - led solutions for DC's most under - resourced residents — not fossil fuel and Wall Street profits.

«The 124 - mile Constitution pipeline, planned to run through five counties and two states, and hundreds of waterways is the sort of massive fossil fuel investment that would have locked our region into continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels and irreparably damaged precious water resources at a time when we need instead to be protecting these resources and speeding the transition to 100 percent renewable energy for all.

This technical document reviews existing reserves and geographical distribution of fossil fuels across the African continent, reviews technical options for decarbonising efforts and provides policy recommendations that would enable the use of resources for the continent's development efforts while ensuring minimisation of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

That's why the book argues that by shifting spending from fossil fuels into renewables, governments will free up vast resources for a clean industrial revolution that could boost GDP, lower debt, and boost employment.

Their latest nominations for Federal department heads in natural resource and environmental areas are uniformly climate skeptics and strong supporters of fossil fuel development.

State looked no further than oil industry contractors to run the draft SEIS — companies like Cardno ENTRIX, which calls TransCanada a «major client,» and ERM Resources, a dues paying member of the American Petroleum Institute which is being investigated by the State Department's Inspector General for trying to hide its prior consulting for fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.

Instead, Dominion's latest integrated resource plan reveals plans for more fossil fuel generation and increasing greenhouse gas emissions over the next fifteen years.

-- If electricity is generated using both a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource and an energy source that is not a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource (as, for example, in the case of co-firing of renewable biomass and fossil fuel), the Commission shall issue Federal renewable electricity credits based on the proportion of the electricity that is attributable to the renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource.

It can be a ban on all new fossil fuel projects of any kind or it could focus on exploration, extraction, transportation, generation — or even the use of your local natural resources like water for use in fossil fuel projects.

-- In accordance with subparagraph (B), the team shall provide technical, programmatic, and financial assistance to each utility of each affiliated island, and the government of each affiliated island, as appropriate, to develop and implement an energy Action Plan for each affiliated island to reduce the reliance of each affiliated island on imported fossil fuels through increased efficiency and use of indigenous clean - energy resources.

In Fantasyland independent countries who do not have all the resources they want for their citizens will agree to pay countries such as Russia, Iraq, the USA, etc. to not mine or pump fossil fuel reserves.

Our species is the most successful ever, still growing in numbers and absorbing more and more natural resources for its industrial metabolism, which is largely based on fossil fuels and other dwindling stocks.

lolwot - so who is going to pay the USA for not developing our fossil fuel resources today to the maximum extent possible???