Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel pollution also»

Not exact matches

The rise of renewables helps, but in order to eliminate fossil - fuel pollution nuclear power is also required, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The position paper on air pollution and cardiovascular disease was written by experts from the European Society of Cardiology and also recommends decreasing the use of fossil fuels.

They showed that reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels also reduces the pollution that causes millions of premature deaths in societies around the world.

The degree of air pollution in China exceeded that in most of the world, yet assessments of total health effects must also include other fossil fuel caused air and water pollutants, as discussed in the following section on ecology and the environment.

The fossil fuel alternative also comes with many, many well proven consequent illnesses and deaths: from the pollution connected with coal mining and with the pollution following the burning of the coal.

Reliance on such fossil - fuel inputs not only sustains oil dependency but also represents a major water pollution problem when they run off into rivers.

Interestingly, the landmark international accord draws a big fat highlight (and maybe a circle and some stars in the margin) across the work that activists and leaders are doing in the Pacific Northwest: not just the work to keep fossil fuels in the ground and make polluters pay for their pollution, but also our work to reduce the influence of money in politics and reform broken North American democratic institutions.

China will start reducing their pollution and also we will finally see the problem with the $ 500 billion / year fossil fuels subsidies being solved.

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.

It has also increased over time, as measures to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste plus pollution have been implemented, and there is no doubt that this improvement will continue, partly as a result of increasing fossil fuel prices and other market - driven considerations.

These systems also minimize the threats of acid rain, air pollution, the greenhouse effect and global warming — problems directly linked to the burning of fossil fuels.

We, all of us, believe that a transition to a clean energy future isn't just about ending pollution, it's also an opportunity to ensure that the new energy economy shares its wealth more equitably than the fossil fueled economic oligarchy we're trying to leave behind.

However, as it became clear that biofuels were not only connected to deforestation, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions (sometimes exceeding fossil fuels), but also competed with the global food supply and water sources, biofuels no longer seemed like a silver bullet, but a new problem facing the environment and the poor.

I find it telling that someone who accuses those who use the word «pollution» to describe excess atmospheric CO2 of being «Orwellian» can also describe proposals for what is a form of «user - pays» in fossil fuel usage as «like listening to Marxist students of the 1960s.»

As stated before I would like to see subsidies for fossil fuel removed and also external costs such as healthcare due to air pollution factored in as that would give a true cost of power generation.

These can range from reducing greenhouse gas emissions but also battling the scourge of air pollution, improving energy security by reducing the dependency of fossil fuels, diversifying supply, creating high - tech jobs or fostering innovation.

It would also enable more of the fossil fuel pollution driving climate change, which is already raising sea levels and causing rampant flooding in Virginia's coastal communities.

Air pollution caused by the use of fossil fuels is also separately contributing to the deaths of at least 4.5 m people a year, the report found.

Conservative think - tanks are organisations that oppose policies, such as regulation of pollution by the fossil fuel industry (some have also opposed regulation of the tobacco industry in the past and, in fact, some continue to do so today).

They also lessen reliance on fossil fuels, thus decreasing carbon dioxide emissions and other forms of pollution harmful to humans and the planet alike.

The fossil fuel companies use «political payola» (bribes) to influence a majority in Congress to create and sustain pollution practices... while also sustaining inefficient, «dirty energy» policies that help optimize the profits of these corrupt, wealthy corporations.

In doing so we'll also prevent some 1.5 million premature deaths annually due to improved air quality.Soot Comes Out of the Atmosphere in Weeks, Not Decades Since soot — which in this context comes from older diesel engines and burning other fossil fuels, industrial sources, inefficient biomass cookstoves used in many developing nations — comes out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quality.

«It is... going to generate pollution, not just from fossil fuels but also from lithium plants, which produce sulphur dioxide,» Luis Alberto Echazu, Bolivian minister for mining, told BBC News.

Because coal — by far the most carbonintensive fossil fuel — will most likely be replaced by cleaner energy sources; in that case, the moment China's coal consumption plateaus will also be the moment their greenhouse - gas pollution plateaus.

Some Mitigationists (of all degrees of urgency) are also «no regrets» proponents of shifting away from fossil fuels for other reasons — peak - oil types, environmentalists worried about conventional air pollution, anti - automobile / anti-suburb activists, and so on.

Ending fossil fuel subsidies would also save treasuries money and discourage pollution.