Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel production per»

World fossil fuel production per capita will thus begin an irreversible decline between 2020 and 2030.

Fossil fuel production per capita actually declined 5 per cent during this period.

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.

Not exact matches

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production grew 2.3 per cent to a record high of 36.1 billion tonnes CO2 in 2013.

Global carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production grew 2.3 per cent in 2013.

The carbon majors are defined as fossil fuel production entities and cement manufacturers that produced more than ≥ 8 million tonnes carbon per year (MtC / y), while the total human attribution case refers to all relevant human activities that have been measured and used in climate assessment model scenarios that influence climate change.

Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons)-LSB-(Marland, et al., 2006)-- The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.].

Air and water pollution from fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, killing more than 1,000,000 people per year and affecting the health of billions of people [232], [234], with costs borne by the public.

The idea that you could ever replace the rate of utilization of energy from fossil fuels, which has been estimated as consuming 400 years worth of photosynthesis per year, with a fraction of the annual photosynthetic harvest that does not impinge on food production is part of today's magical thinking, along with reducing deficits by cutting taxes while continuing to increase spending.

Per the article: Approximately 8 Petagrams (Pg; trillion kilograms) of carbon are added to the atmosphere every year from fossil fuel burning and cement production alone.

It shows that a fully rebated fee of $ 49 / ton CO2e on the production of fossil fuels would provide the lowest 10 % on the income scale a 9 % net raise on per - person after tax income.

In recent years, the total cost of fossil - fuel consumption subsidies worldwide has ranged from $ 480 billion to $ 630 billion per year, plus more than $ 100 billion spent every year in production subsidies.

However, Member States who fulfil certain conditions relating to their interconnectivity or their share of fossil fuels in electricity production and GDP per capita in relation to the EU - 27 average, have the option to temporarily deviate from this rule with respect to existing power plants.

Total fossil fuel demand was calculated globally, based on world population and per capita demand; while production was calculated on a country by - country basis and summed to obtain global production.

However, global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement production have continued to grow by 2.5 per cent per year, on average, in the past decade.

Global greenhouse gas emissions per region / Global CO2 emissions per region from fossil - fuel use and cement production The Report includes a new systematic assessment of how various economic sectors can reduce their climate - warming emissions, focusing on the potential eductions from the wide application of already - known and cost - effective technologies.

The carbon majors are defined as fossil fuel production entities and cement manufacturers that produced more than ≥ 8 million tonnes carbon per year (MtC / y), while the total human attribution case refers to all relevant human activities that have been measured and used in climate assessment model scenarios that influence climate change.

Oil Change International issued a 2015 report that G20 governments provided more than $ 400 billion (360 billion euros) per year to fossil fuel production, including some of the world's most carbon - intensive and polluting ones.

• Biodiesel production using soybean required 27 % more fossil energy than the biodiesel fuel produced (Note, the energy yield from soy oil per hectare is far lower than the ethanol yield from corn).

All the income collected from the fees on fossil fuel production would be returned in equal per capita amounts to all legal residents to compensate for rising energy costs.

Over 90 per cent of global emissions come from burning fossil fuels and cement production.

A new way of globally working together could actually significantly increase the total energy obtained from fossil fuel burning by most rapidly shutting down the highest impacting activities per unit of final user obtained energy (including all impacts, not just the production of excess CO2).

These peaks are only 18, 35 and 54 per cent above the 2005 levels of world fossil fuel production.

Since 1950, the share of world energy production provided by fossil fuels has varied only slightly between 85 and 93 per cent.

Moreover, from 2000 to 2005 — the 5 - year period with the largest absolute increase ever in world energy production — fossil fuels accounted for nearly 92 per cent of that increase.

Because fossil fuel production peaks and subsequently declines, production per capita will also decline.

Total energy production per capita resumed increasing after 2000 only because of rapidly growing fossil fuel production (which accounted for 98 per cent of the per capita increase for 2000 — 2005).

Ironically, it was environmentalists that shut down this effort, and power industries around the world replaced capacity that would have gone nuclear mostly with coal, the worst fossil fuel in terms of CO2 production (per BTU of power, Nuclear and hydrogen produce no CO2, natural gas produces some, gasoline produces more, and coal produces the most).