Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel growth»

The only real benefit from renewables comes WHEN THEY CAN START CARVING OUT A MAJOR SHARE OF PRESENT FOSSIL FUEL USE, to say nothing of fossil fuel growth.

Ooops, annual global fossil fuel growth averaged 2.3 % since 1988 through 2012 (click image below to enlarge).

Not exact matches

Environmentalists, meanwhile, warn that, in an era of climate change, the costs of relentlessly pursuing GDP growth — transforming trees into lumber, farmland into malls, fossil fuels into CO2 — now outweigh the benefits.

Other countries, such as Germany, have shown that it is possible to have economic growth and energy security while phasing out fossil fuels.

I'm hopeful that the global economic contraction that is occurring will put a kibosh on the plans to expand the oilsands, for the sake of our children and grandchildren whose world is being poisoned and raped for a few more years of fossil fuel - based «growth».

As the event opened, the panellists were presented with five global risk scenarios: uncontrolled city growth, lack of fresh water, extreme weather, continued fossil fuel lock - in and rising cases of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

BC Chamber of Commerce massively promotes and supports these fossil fuel and energy projects, since they believe it enhances «business growth» in BC, and since it appears only money talks in this province, boycotting their membership is a first step in demanding those corporations take an ethical stand for the protection of BC on this matter.

Furthermore, efforts at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A, +0.62 % to move beyond fossil fuels into low - carbon energy is as much driven by the growth potential of alternative energy markets as a concern for global warming.

Growing self - reliance in North America has also fueled a fierce battle over market share in Asia, the engine of growth for fossil fuels, a trend that ADNOC's CEO acknowledged in his remarks on Monday.

In the energy sector, improved fossil - fuel extraction methods and differing growth outlooks are forcing legacy companies to reconsider their strategies.

For over fifteen years, rapid Chinese growth and industrialization brought a tremendous amount of demand for fossil fuels and metals around the globe.

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.

FrieslandCampina added that it is aware of how dairy production affects the environment and has a multidisciplinary sustainability strategy, route2020, which aims to achieve climate - neutral growth by reducing the use of scarce materials (e.g. water, raw materials, and fossil fuels).

She is a consistent advocate for Smart Growth and environmental sustainability and has long spearheaded efforts to reduce the town's dependence on fossil fuels.

The long - term warming over the 21st century, however, is strongly influenced by the future rate of emissions, and the projections cover a wide variety of scenarios, ranging from very rapid to more modest economic growth and from more to less dependence on fossil fuels.

Thanks to growing population and dwindling supplies, fossil fuel production per capita may peak by mid-century — ending the two centuries of unlimited growth in energy production that is at the root of modern civilization, consultant Richard Nehring writes in the journal.

Ummel said despite some movement — like China and India reducing their carbon intensity — the fact remains that most of the world is fossil - fuel dependent and the rates of growth are worrisomely high.

A United Nations report released Sunday said that governments must act faster to keep global warming in check and that a radical shift from fossil fuels to low - carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power would shave only about 0.06 of a percentage point a year off world economic growth.

Fossil fuels cost a lot of money and [have] a lot of climate impact; that's something we haven't covered either, but this plan will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions to about a third of what they are now [by] 2050, assuming some level of growth as well.

The growth of solar and wind power has brought these renewable resources into conflict with fossil fuels

In other words, the plant growth should act like a sink, absorbing the gas released into the air by burning fossil fuel.

«I guarantee you today that we are compromising economic growth because of our overdependence on fossil fuels,» she told Perry.

The EIA says world energy consumption is likely to grow by more than 50 percent over the period 2010 to 2040, with fossil fuels supplying 80 percent of the total, despite a growth in renewables and nuclear power.

Previous studies have suggested a variety of potential culprits behind the renewed rise: increasing emissions from high - latitude wetlands, increasing fossil fuel emissions, or the growth of agriculture in Asia.

The U.S. saw a period of rapid economic growth and increased consumption of fossil fuels over the last few decades, leading to a corresponding large increase in carbon dioxide emissions.

The growth in coal in 2012 accounted for 54 per cent of the growth in fossil fuel emissions.

From a climate perspective, there is some good news about the likely decline in the growth of fossil fuel production discussed by others at the panel, Tans said.

«We found that with rapid growth in Chinese emissions and those «locked into» fossil - fuel based infrastructure, China has already exceeded its «quota» under population - based sharing,» said Andrew.

Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, who was not a co-author of the paper, commented: «We can not separate the issues of population growth, resource consumption, the burning of fossil fuels, and climate risk.

From the Post Carbon Institute comes a quick video of the history of fossil fuels and the growth of the modern economy over the last 300 years: You might also be interested in this recent post: «Energy source transitions over time - what comes next?

David Rutledge, an engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology who studies world coal production, said the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario is unrealistic because it essentially assumes that growth of fossil fuels like coal will continue apace, which is unlikely.

In the future, it is expected to reduce reliance on fossil fuels such as oil, coal or gas and help tackle major challenges such as climate change and global population growth.

But every person in Britain uses more than 80 times as much fossil fuel as a Bangladeshi, so Britain's population growth effectively contributes 3.5 times as much carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere as Bangladesh's.

With the Bakken's growth have come increased protests over fossil fuel rail traffic across the West.

The People's Republic now produces more than three billion tons of coal a year, and the fossil fuel has played a key role in accelerating the nation's growth, along with its carbon dioxide emissions, dating to the early 20th century

Carbon intensity is going up because countries like China are relying on the cheapest and dirtiest of fossil fuels to power their growth.

According to the latest report from the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists who track the amount of carbon emitted by human activity, 2017 will see a 2 percent increase in the burning of fossil fuels, after nearly no growth in 2014, 2015 or 2016.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

It remains the fastest growing component of the widening gap between the Ecological Footprint and the planet's biocapacity,» Wackernagel said adding that a global agreement that aims to phase out fossil fuels could have a significant impact in helping curb the consistent growth and even shrink Ecological Footprint, humanity's demand on planet Earth.

According the new research, last year global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry grew by just 0.6 % — compared to 2.4 % annual growth for the decade before.

The announcement flew in the face of established economic wisdom, which has long assumed that economic growth is inextricably linked to rising fossil fuel consumption and with it, rising climate - changing carbon dioxide emissions.

By comparison, scenarios for fossil fuel emissions for the 21st century range from about 600 billion tons (if we can keep total global emissions at current levels) to over 2500 billion tons if the world increases its reliance on combustion of coal as economic growth and population increase dramatically.

Despite rapid growth in domestic fossil fuel production and renewable energy generation, the U.S. continues to depend on energy imports.

I think it is important to stress that with the current growth of fossil fuel emissions we are above the highest IPCC emissions scenario (RCP 8.5), at least for fossil fuel combustion.

The growth rate of fossil fuel emissions increased from 1.5 % / year during 1980 — 2000 to 3 % / year in 2000 — 2012, mainly because of increased coal use [4]--[5].

Chronic water stress could potentially reduce the carbon sink of deciduous forests in the U.S. by as much as 17 percent in coming decades, leading to a decrease in carbon capture that translates to an additional one to three days of global carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning each year, according to the paper, «Chronic water stress reduces tree growth and the carbon sink of deciduous hardwood forests.»

If it takes 100 plus years to double the concentration of CO2, and if the equilibrium response is a 2C increase (Pierrehumbert, «Principles of Planetary Climate», p 623), and if the increased CO2 produces increased vegetation and crop growth, then the present rate of development of non-fossil fuel power and fuel generation is more appropriate than an Apollo type project or attempt to get rid of all fossil fuel use by 2050 starting now as fast as can be done.

Economic growth is indeed one efficient way to burn up most the rest of the planets accessible fossil - death - fuels.

A major growth rate decrease in 1992 was partly attributed to a reduced fossil fuel source resulting from the atmospheric cooling following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, and reduced biomass burning https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/98JD00923