Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel resources»

During the next half century, fossil fuel production will be limited primarily by the amount and characteristics of remaining fossil fuel resources.

It requires an understanding of the methods for estimating fossil fuel resources and the strengths and limitations of each of these methods.

For a system designed for fossil fuel resources, this will mean transforming the grid to accommodate large increases in renewable energy resources.

Governments throughout the world are scrambling to develop fossil fuel resources simply because of the significant net revenues they will receive.

The transition to a supply - constrained energy system makes understanding fossil fuel resources the essential foundation of a sound forecasting approach.

The mentality of needing more and more fossil fuel resources is also a big obstacle to change.

On the contrary, continued development of remaining fossil fuel resources is essential to provide adequate supplies of energy for the world economy across the many decades that this great transformation will require.

Understanding fossil fuel resources is not only a matter of understanding resource quantity, it is also a matter of understanding resource quality.

My own feeling is that by 2030 you had better have almost all of your recoverable fossil fuel resources out of the ground before the adoption of majority percentage renewable energy targets worldwide make your remaining untapped resources worth increasingly less.

He has opened up vast fossil fuel resources at the expense of our children and used rarely invoked legal tactics to avoid a fair and full trial.

There is no argument that we don't need a new fossil fuel resource in that area.»

There are sufficient fossil fuel resources to readily supply 1000 GtC, as fossil fuel emissions to date (370 GtC) are only a small fraction of potential emissions from known reserves and potentially recoverable resources (Fig. 2).

It is driving the rapid depletion of fossil fuel resources with a dramatic increase in associated emissions and consequent climate change; it is accelerating the loss of biodiversity and widespread extinction of species; it is intensifying the growing shortage of fresh water to meet human needs.

Every year, one of the projects I give my students is to figure out how the global community can address the climate risk, given that it requires concerted global action, that some countries cause more emissions per capita than others, that some are endowed with abundant fossil fuel resources, and that some are richer than others.

Federal officials followed President Obama's State of the Union pledge to change Washington's management of fossil fuel resources by announcing the government will stop issuing new coal leases on federal lands.

They make no economic sense because they would seriously decrease US competitiveness, raise energy prices, and restrict US access to its very rich fossil fuel resources when just the opposite policies are needed.

There is no political or economic system anywhere in the world currently that can persuade an energy company to leave a valuable fossil fuel resource untapped.

The Anglo - Dutch group said the BG takeover would expand its presence in controversial deep - water activities — many of the planet's untapped fossil fuel resources are now in ocean regions that are difficult to access — but said it would also increase its presence in liquefied natural gas, a cleaner fossil fuel than oil.

Fossil fuel resource use: the assumption is that the energy needs will be met mostly by fossil fuels.

Moreover, in a world where fossil fuel resources are shrinking every year, and where the extraction of «residual» sources such as deepwater oil, tar sands and shale gas come with great environmental and safety risks, bioenergy production can also contribute to national energy security.

Industry extracts the lowest - cost, highest - quality, least emissions - intensive fossil fuel resources first.

Over the last several decades, various attempts have been made to extract fossil fuel resources from...

The paper, published online this afternoon in the journal Science Advances, is titled, «Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet.»

Areas that have few fossil fuel resources and no shale gas can apply straight away for technical help to begin processing their plant waste.

Global oil use is on the rise, even as scientists warn of depleting fossil fuel resources and an ever - growing greenhouse effect from burning these products.

We, members of the student organization CORE (Conserving Our Ranger Environment), agree that finding alternative energy solutions is necessary given the earth's finite fossil fuel resources.

Panelists will include authors of the Synapse report Air Emissions Displacement by Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, a survey of evidence that renewable resources and energy efficiency have indeed displaced fossil fuel resources connected to the grid.

New analysis released today by Oil Change International finds that World Bank Group finance for projects that included exploration for new fossil fuel resources reached a new high in FY2013, at nearly $ 1 billion out of the $ 2.7 billion spent in total for fossil fuel projects.

«We show in simulations using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model that burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the ice sheet,» wrote study researcher Ricarda Winkelmann from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, and colleagues in their study.

«It's a pretty clear indicator that our solution to energy needs is not chasing lower and lower quality fossil fuel resources that come with higher impacts.»

We certainly should not console ourselves that RCP8.5 is beyond our reach just because the present estimate of fossil fuel resources appears insufficient.