Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel consumption»

The timeframe is too small for meaningful analysis, but it would reasonable to predict a reduction in the rate of increase of fossil fuel consumption due to reduced demand.

Coal received $ 2 billion in fossil fuel consumption subsidies, just 0.4 percent of the total.

Since conservation and efficiency are well known to be the most cost effective means of reducing fossil fuel consumption, aren't these spending priorities completely reversed from what is intuitively obvious?

Oil subsidies make up over half of the total fossil fuel consumption subsidies, while electricity makes up 24 percent, natural gas 22 percent and coal 0.4 percent.

We want to do our part to reduce our carbon emissions from fossil fuel consumption in order to help prevent the worst effects of climate change.

By some estimates, a phase out of global fossil fuel consumption and production — particularly coal and oil — will need to be nearly complete within 50 years.

And of course wealth is correlated with fossil fuel consumption, because that's currently where we get most of our energy from.

One of the benefits to cutting fossil fuel consumption is lowering air pollution.

First, a developed or developing country's economic success is based on its ability to continually expand, which can't happen unless fossil fuel consumption and resource depletion continually expand.

On the one hand, renewable energy use has never been higher — but, on the other hand, 2016 brought with it news of record fossil fuel consumption as well.

Scientists still don't know where some of the CO2 emitted from fossil fuel consumption goes.

But it's not a solution of course, since we are still talking about fossil fuel consumption.

There are much more reasons that will lead to fewer fossil fuel consumption — not only CO2 regulations.

Even if some of these drawbacks can eventually be overcome, the investment required to replace present fossil fuel consumption with sustainable alternatives will be enormous.

The greens are trying to ban fossil fuel consumption.

Rather, federal law requires that states consider the benefits of avoiding fossil fuel consumption and the benefits of reducing line losses through distributed generation.

When C and E are no longer the most cost effective solutions to reductions in fossil fuel consumption, we go to the next most cost effective method, which will likely be nuclear.

You know, breathing * is * a net add, systematically speaking, because our food production involves massive amounts of fossil fuel consumption.

Energy independence: Reducing fossil fuel consumption by integration more renewable generation.

Anna Roggenbuck, Policy Officer at CEE Bankwatch Network, said: «With the decision to finance TANAP, the EIB has shown its disregard to Europe's commitments to climate change mitigation.This project has been approved without a proper climate impact assessment, and in contradiction to pledges under the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius which entails limiting fossil fuels consumption.»

Total fossil fuel consumption in the period 1910 to 1945 was about 1/4 to 1/5 the consumption rate from 1970 to 2000, but it was pretty dirty.

The report claims that the corn ethanol refinery industry will not significantly offset U.S. fossil fuel consumption without unacceptable environmental -LSB-...]

The report claims that the corn ethanol refinery industry will not significantly offset U.S. fossil fuel consumption without unacceptable environmental and economic consequences.

Given the limited public understanding of the intricacies of climate science, the human tendency to be more concerned with current issues than with what the climate will be like 100 years from now, and the glaring inequities in per capita fossil fuel consumption between countries like the United States and those like India, justifying an enlightened energy policy on the basis of concerns about global warming is a tough sell.

Only if we spur those cost and performance breakthroughs do we have a chance of drastically cutting emissions (and eliminating fossil fuel consumption) IN ADDITION to incremental cost and performance improvements.

14 IPCC - 2001 Predictions for the year 2100 1.4 o C < T < 5.8 o C Between 1990 and 2100 global mean surface temperature will increase by This large range of uncertainty arises in equal measure from two principle sources: Uncertainty about how much climate forcing humans will do, principally through fossil fuel consumption.

Science tells us undeniably that human fossil fuel consumption is rapidly warming the planet.

What we should be doing is to slow down fossil fuel consumption while ramping up renewable energy collectors.

Emissions from fossil fuel consumption account for the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions, but extraction of oil, natural gas and coal also emits greenhouse gases, particularly methane that frequently mingles within coal seams or oil and gas deposits.

Animal transport time limits will decrease fossil fuel consumption, promote local businesses, create additional employment, dramatically reduce suffering of millions of farmed animals annually, and bring Canada up to European standards for farmed animal welfare.

August 18, 1981 memo from Exxon's Roger Cohen to Exxon's Werner Glass with comments about Glass» draft report on possible consequences of fossil fuel consumption out to 2030.

It's a political impossibility to get the whole world to give up enough fossil fuel consumption to make a difference in the eventual outcome.

A doubling to 560 parts per million since the Industrial Revolution could occur by mid-century if global economies adopt the Trump Administration's animosity towards climate action and fossil fuel consumption continues unabated.

Analysis in the new WEO - 2017 showed that for the first time the largest share of global subsidies that benefit fossil fuel consumption went to keep electricity prices artificially low (41 % of the global total), ahead of oil (40 %) and natural gas.

Forty years ago we might have had an easier time of it, as we were on a path to dramatically cut back on CO2 production via what is still the only viable technology to massively replace fossil fuel consumption — nuclear power.

And that, they say, pales in comparison to the roughly 4,000 deaths that are associated with New York fossil fuel consumption each year, according to a 2012 study from Stanford and Cornell University engineers and scientists.