Sentences with phrase «for fossil fuels use»

All energy use and climate change authorities place the trajectory for fossil fuels use as doubling between now and 2050.

«Having avoided the embarrassment of announcing a fossil fuel mega-loan on the anniversary of the Paris climate agreement, the European Investment Bank is now shamelessly locking Europe into decades of fossil fuel dependency even as the window for fossil fuel use is slamming shut.

Columnist Robin Beres asks, if aliens were coming to judge us for fossil fuel use, wouldn't they have passed sentence several hundred years ago for, say, coal.

The international community has committed to phase out subsidies for fossil fuel use, including in the electricity sector.

Only after incurring a succession of monetary losses or anticipated losses from the «sin» tax or increased price do «appetites» for fossil fuel use diminish: consumers, as they have limited monetary resources, figure out for themselves the trade - off in monetary terms of one set of appetites for another and start choosing the higher benefit - to - cost satisfactions.

I want to know how an ETS (or a carbon tax for that matter) can make any sense when there is no mention of first removing the perverse incentives for fossil fuel use.

They say quite correctly that time is running out for fossil fuel use and solar could eventually supply every energy need.

Not exact matches

The advantage of fossil fuels and nuclear power, that renewable sources still can't match, is the way they hold energy for use when you want it.

On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

But fossil fuels still account for the majority of both electricity use and primary energy use overall, and at no time in the near future will that change.

Nearly 15 % of the electricity consumed in the United States each year is used to keep people cool, meaning America uses as much fossil fuel for air conditioning as Africa uses for all its energy needs.

It's time for fossil fuel companies to use their considerable capx budgets to invest in solar pv or wind projects and get a better roi (return on investment) for investors.

Although consumption of nonfossil fuels is expected to grow faster than fossil fuels, fossil fuels still account for 77 % of energy use in 2040.

He gets lambasted for supposed hypocrisy because he flies to places on planes — which use a lot of fossil fuel — to criticize the fossil fuel industry.

Why also is eco-friendly British Columbia, home of a provincial carbon tax designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels, being such a willing conduit for transporting US coal to Asian markets?

Elon Musk is very enthusiastic in pushing for the widespread use of solar energy to replace fossil fuels, so it was no surprise that the Tesla continues to focus on improving its technology for energy storage — if the car manufacturer's gigafactory is any indication of that.

Today the share of fossil fuels account for 87 % of all energy use and despite growing investments in renewable energy, this figure has been constant the last twenty years.

A target of $ 250 million in reduced fossil fuel subsidies is our starting point, and a first step will be to allow for the use of the Canadian Exploration Expenses tax deduction only in cases of unsuccessful exploration.

Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.

While in use at the demonstration centre, the panels showcased distributed solar power for homes in British Columbia, bringing to life «practical solutions for urban sustainability, [and how to] move away from fossil fuels.»

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...

For example, the growth of secondary industries and their use of fossil fuels has led to the imminent exhaustion of fossil fuels and the pollution of the atmosphere with excess carbon dioxide and other gases.

The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

By far the most important source of disruption of the environment comes from the use of fossil fuels for energy.

Small increases per person can have an enormous effect when multiplied by huge numbers of people, as for example in China and India, if, as they propose, they increase their use of fossil fuels in the near future.

The crushed stalks, called bagasse, are used to fuel the mill's boilers, providing enough electricity for the mills and neighboring villages so that fossil fuel is unnecessary.

Released to the public in June 2017, the latest corrugated industry life cycle assessment (LCA) confirms continued environmental progress through increased efficiencies in mill energy systems, increased use of low - impact fossil fuels, and increased recovery for recycling.

Mr Bambridge says this the plant indirectly reduces the brewery's carbon footprint by reducing the brewery's demands on fossil fuels and the electricity needs for wastewater treatment by using energy - friendly anaerobic pre-treatment technology in which GWE is a world leader.

Particularly daunting is the production or acquisition of large volumes of organic compost for fertilizer; synthetic fertilizers are not allowed due to high fossil fuel use in their manufacture and their limited use in promoting healthy soil.

Consumer products companies interested in increasing the sustainability of their beverages and using less fossil fuel for shipping will want to consider adding this powder - filled beverage option.

On top of that, organic farming reduces non-renewable energy use by decreasing the need for chemicals, which require high quantities of fossil fuel to be produced.

- Reducing fossil fuel use and CO2 emissions is part of the recipe for aspiring gourmets who use the Green Toys Chef Set.

Not only will these projects benefit our environment by reducing dependence on fossil fuels and using renewable energy, but they are also creating well - paying jobs for New Yorkers.

«Let's do what we can to make sure we have the energy available for people right now but invest in forward thinking: in renewable technologies, in wind turbines, in solar panels, in geothermal, to help us transition off so we have the ability to use energy and electricity in future years to come not with fossil fuels.»

Nations could help by cutting funding on climate research, and boosting funding for the solution to climate change, which we already know: use less fossil fuel.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

And it also means that he has to stop supporting the use of fossil fuels, including his idea to spend perhaps a hundred million dollars to expand the gas plant that is heating the Empire State Plaza and lock in gas emissions into a low - income people - of - color community for the next 30 years in the Arbor Hill area.»

Cuomo's plan, released a couple of years ago, would cut the use of fossil fuels for electricity in the state in half by 2030, but does not apply those same goals to other carbon emmissions.

State Comptroller Tom Di Napoli is opposing the call for him to divest the state's pension plans from fossil fuel companies, on the grounds that he can be more effective using the state's stock ownership to do shareholder activism.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide derives from multiple natural sources including volcanic outgassing, the combustion of organic matter, and the respiration processes of living aerobic organisms; man - made sources of carbon dioxide come mainly from the burning of various fossil fuels for power generation and transport use.

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.»

Without a way to save electricity and heat for later use, intermittent renewable energy will struggle to close price and performance differences with fossil fuels.

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

His calculations, based on 2008 figures for the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, show that even assuming a lower estimate of forest carbon content, total and equivalent CO2 would level out at 476 parts per million, even if we stopped all fossil fuel use immediately.

The sun has been storing fossil fuels for hundreds of millions of years and we're using them up in hundreds of years, so that's a problem.

In addition, biorefineries could use lipidcane bagasse to produce steam and electricity to become self - sustainable for their energy needs and provide surplus electricity, providing environmental benefits by displacing electricity produced with fossil fuels.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).