Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel dependence»

The world has to wean itself from fossil fuel dependence in the coming 20 - 40 years.

I hope to fight pollution and fossil fuel dependence with an emphasis on the small.

They can't win hearts and minds by suggesting that eternal fossil fuel dependence is a good thing; nobody's buying that.

Because of their unique characteristics, renewable energy and energy efficiency help alleviate the risks of fossil fuel dependence while spurring economic development and improving public health and the environment.

That would amount to using good clean energy projects to displace other clean energy projects, instead of reducing fossil fuel dependence and lowering carbon emissions.

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Overall, Redfield expects that energy storage systems will help increase renewable energy use and curb fossil fuel dependence in the United States.

The Australian Government consistently claims that our high level of fossil fuel dependence means that measures to cut emissions will be more costly for Australia than other industrialised countries.

A: Enhanced agricultural productivity must be pursued in the context of pressing global issues, including fossil fuel dependence, soil and atmospheric degradation, climate change, disease and pest epidemics.

Building new pipelines and scrambling for alternative supplies simply locks us into ongoing fossil fuel dependence.

Instead, as the Sane Energy Project site notes, «We support investment in renewable energy and the goal of zero fossil fuel dependence by 2030.»

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Researchers recently invented a power cell that harnesses algae energy, a potential renewable energy source to help reduce fossil fuel dependence.

The US government claims that biofuels policies are an effort improve sustainable «green» energies while moving away from fossil fuel dependence.

However, Southeast Asia also has a history of fossil fuel dependence, legal frameworks that cater to these as the primary fuel source, and a strong (and potentially competing) current focus on liquefied natural gas - to - power projects.

Are there ways that we can gain the short - term benefits to CDR from EOR developments while mitigating long - term potential costs of prolonged fossil fuel dependence?

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These exchanges bring fresh ideas, new perspectives and different ways of approaching problems, which are all catalysts for the innovation which fuels the economy and help us meet global challenges, ranging from climate change to fossil fuel dependence and infectious diseases.

As such, fossil fuel dependence is a potent threat to Mexico's climate ambitions but remains a pillar for Mexico's economy, which is still struggling to elevate the impoverished.

(Adaptive challenges include climate change and fossil fuel dependence.)

Last week Mr. Schwarzenegger hosted a meeting in California for local, regional and provincial government leaders from 90 different countries aimed at developing policies to boost energy efficiency and reduce fossil fuel dependence.

«The potential is so large that more efforts are warranted, in order to achieve deep CO2 emission reductions, reduce fossil fuel dependence and increase industrial competitiveness,» Mr. Mandil concluded.

But let's not assume that divestment alone will break the chains of fossil fuel dependence.

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.

Only with renewables can the EU transition from fossil fuel dependence to energy supply security and sustainability

On one hand, atomic energy offers a clean energy alternative that frees us from the shackles of fossil fuel dependence.

How do we transition our economy to get off the resource - economy roller - coaster, reduce our fossil fuel dependence, and lead in the global low - carbon economy?

Furthermore, all the Wind I neighbors I have examined are passionate about the need for sustainable energy in an effort to reduce fossil fuel dependence.»

The viral spread of the Transition Towns movement has been an encouraging sign that communities are ready to tackle their fossil fuel dependence head on.

There's been much talk of Africa «leapfrogging» the paradigm of fossil fuel dependence.

By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power.

Perhaps because of the administration's need to defend its embrace of drilling, it hasn't used the BP debacle to push for an end to fossil fuel dependence.

Is fracking the miracle cure - all to our energy ills, or a costly distraction from the necessary work of reducing our fossil fuel dependence?