Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel import»

This change is induced primarily by concerns over high fossil fuel prices, greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel import dependence.

The IEA also notes drastic improvements in air pollution, cuts in fossil fuel import bills and lower household energy expenditures would complement the decarbonisation achieved, if well designed policies are used.

But that hasn't dissuaded the kingdom from shifting its long - term energy strategy away from fossil fuel imports in favor of domestically produced renewable energy.

This would be good news on many fronts — simultaneously reducing energy poverty, air pollution, carbon emissions, and costly fossil fuel imports.

Renewable Energy Sources (RES) offer many benefits, such as CO2 emissions mitigation, fossil fuels import requirement reduction and new jobs creation, just to name a few.

He decided to begin with the Caribbean, a region heavily dependent upon fossil fuel imports, where highly - polluting diesel generators dominate the electricity sector.

China's green energy revolution has saved the country from catastrophic dependence on fossil fuel imports

We are — as most countries on this planet — dependend on fossil fuel imports.

For example, two - thirds of fossil fuel imports to Japan transit through the South China Sea underscoring the strategic importance of security in this area.

The study found that the U.S. climate commitments alone would create 470,000 additional jobs by 2030 and save $ 160 billion per year due to reduced fossil fuel imports.

Offshore wind energy is an industry that creates jobs, reduces fossil fuel imports and one in which Europe is a world leader with huge export opportunities.

Japan (home of Kyoto) has a chronic trade deficit and increased emissions due to fossil fuel imports and now consumes a third of world LNG.

The leaked position paper reveals that the proposed trade deal - the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP - could change U.S. energy policy to allow for increased exports of oil and gas and keep the EU dependent on high levels of fossil fuel imports.

Furthermore, India's growing dependence on fossil fuel imports, which account for around half of its energy consumption, is also raising new energy security concerns.

The same country that has made headlines for measuring Gross National Happiness (there are some legitimate questions for how GNH is calculated) and aiming for 100 % organic agriculture recently announcing a partnership with Nissan to supply electric vehicles (EVs) to government and taxi fleets, as well as electric vehicle chargers, as part of a broad scale effort to cut fossil fuel imports by a whopping 70 %, eventually aiming to become a zero emissions nation.

How does the current US developments compare with lesser fossil fuel imports?

These trees also offer the U.S. a realistic option for producing enough renewable energy to make a meaningful dent in fossil fuel imports.»

Already, the high cost of these fossil fuel imports has contributed to Japan's newfound trade deficit of $ 32 billion, the country's first in over 30 years.

Japan's nuclear power fleet has sat idle since a powerful earthquake struck the nation in March 2011, driving a sharp increase in fossil fuel imports and a spike in the nation's carbon intensity, new data shows.

Not exact matches

«You don't even need to believe in climate change and carbon and all that stuff,» says Keller, who supports a mandatory 10 - to 15 - year phaseout of fossil - fuel imports.

Today the company works with a bio - and fossil - fuel blend, which Shepherd insists is still kinder to the environment than importing salt from overseas.

Although Musk's idea doesn't solve Puerto Rico's current crisis — 90 % of the island is still without power, and many are having trouble getting clean water — it could set the island on the path to sustainable, renewable energy, which could reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels and ultimately bolster its economy.

The effect of the tariffs on the cost of imported solar panels makes it more difficult to compete with other sources of power like wind, or even makes fossil - fuel plants look attractive again, Mr. Freeman said.

We need a # 110bn investment in our energy infrastructure, and a failure to invest now will lead to an increased dependence on imported fossil fuels, which are subject to volatile price spikes and security of supply issues.

«His weak green light to renewable fuels, refusal to cut fossil fuel subsidies and his call for further imports, completely undermines last year's recognition of the need to end the nation's oil addiction,» she said.

Are you willing to accept and own the alternative possibility of importing fracked natural gas and a greater reliance on other fossil fuels?

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

«Does he recognise that while other countries have spent the last decade diversifying their supplies of energy, Britain has become even more dependent on imported fossil fuels - threatening our energy security, our economic competitiveness, and our climate change objectives?»

The fiber and fuel derived from hemp would be carbon neutral and as such wouldn't contribute to global warming — and in fact could help mitigate rising temperatures by replacing chemical - intensive crops like cotton and imported fossil fuels like oil and gas.

Papua New Guinea has pledged to become carbon - neutral by 2050, Nauru and the Cook Islands have steep renewable energy targets, and most others have plans for reducing the import of petroleum and other fossil fuels.

Critics warned that without nuclear power, Japan would need to import more fossil fuels.

Here's how it might work: Next year and in each year thereafter, Congress would set an overall cap on fossil fuels extracted by upstream energy producers, which David A. Weisbach of the University of Chicago Law School identifies as «fewer than 3,000 entities» — petroleum refiners, coal mines and domestic natural gas processors — «plus imports at a few locations.»

«Consequently, the [United States] is importing decreasing amounts of these two fossil fuels, while using rising levels of its natural gas for power generation,» the report states.

Obama would rightly lose all environmental credibility if he were to approve a scheme to double his country's imports of this fossil - fuel basket case.

-- For a covered entity described in section 700 (13)(C), 1 emission allowance for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of fossil fuel - based carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or any other fluorinated gas that is a greenhouse gas (except for nitrogen trifluoride), or any combination thereof, produced or imported by such covered entity during the previous calendar year for sale or distribution in interstate commerce.

Writing in today's Guardian and last week's Mail on Sunday, Professor Myles Allen, head of climate dynamics at Oxford University, proposes that governments introduce a new regulation requiring companies that extract or import fossil fuels to sequester and store a fraction of the carbon dioxide they emit.

Electricity is generated entirely from thermal plants using imported fossil fuels.

The U.S. Export - Import Bank (USEXIM) is the third - largest supporter of fossil fuels among all G20 countries, according to a new report out today from Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth U.S., and WWF's European Policy Office.

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

«As global energy demand grows over this century, there is an urgent need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and imported oil and curtail greenhouse gas emissions,» said Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.

No oil is imported and no fossil fuels are burned when you go whale watching with us.

Feed - in tariffs on fossil energy imports to the United States would surely end up reducing demand for fossil fuels as more and more renewable capacity became available — which is exactly what you would want to see happen if you are serious about slowing the rate of global warming.

You could also extend it to tariffs on imported manufactured goods and agricultural produce, by calculating the fossil fuel used in each case.

Nepal's biggest import is fossil fuels.

Depending on fossil fuel powered trucks and all imported goods is not sustainable in a warming world.

With that reduction the conclusion that Britain will have to rely on imported renewables and nuclear if it eliminates fossil fuels follows can not be escaped.

For example, an «energy security fee» of $ 3.50 per barrel of imported oil would raise approximately $ 15 billion annually; reduced fossil fuel subsidies as proposed by the administration could generate upwards of $ 35 billion over ten years; a utilities electricity fee could raise at least $ 2 billion annually, as included in the Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act; and royalties on new offshore continental shelf drilling could raise more than $ 100 billion over twenty years.

In addition, our nation's dependence on imported energy has increased, and the effects of burning fossil fuels on the global environment are becoming a major concern.

In the New Mexico of 2020 includes a move away from fossil fuels, a perfected use of renewable power sources, zero - emissions buldings, fewer miles traveled, less imported power and fewer power lines, micorgrids that produce their own electricity for hundreds of communities, a reconfiguration of human organizations that aligns with better pricing and energy supply, green collar jobs, and supportive local governments.

[3] A recent report by the U.S. - based Natural Resources Defense Council shows that if Europe does not act, its imports of tar sands, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels, would likely skyrocket from about 4,000 barrels per day in 2012 to over 700,000 bpd in 2020.