Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel supply»

In order to appropriately plan for our future energy needs, a new detailed model of fossil fuel supply is required.

We don't know how long new economically accessible fossil fuel supplies will continue to be discovered or when new alternative technologies being developed for energy production will become economically viable.

As such, we recommend that implementing a stress - test of Australian - based fossil fuel supply in a two - degree pathway would be one sensible approach to consider.

As our recognition of the problems of dwindling fossil fuel supplies and climate change grows, the need to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions of our homes becomes increasingly apparent.

If the reason is to stretch fossil fuel supplies, energy conservation makes sense.

Oh, and why use locally sited renewables when the grid goes away for several months instead of coal supplied by coal trains traveling across the continent, or fossil fuel supplied by pipelines and trucks from refineries across the continent?

The Washington and Oregon legislatures are considering a number of important clean energy and climate policies, including proposals that would levy a charge on fossil fuel suppliers to fund investments in solutions to the climate crisis.

Public - and private - sector interest in the process is driven by any number of concerns about fossil fuel supplies, greenhouse gas emissions, generating rural development or scientific research efforts, and building sustainable sources of energy.

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.

To those of us who believe in the IPCC's forecast of global warming and who also expect that the U.S., China and India qill continue their BAU policy for decades, every discovery of new fossil fuel supply means a more disastrous next century.

This means that to achieve a low - carbon future, nations will need to discourage fossil fuel supply growth by removing financial incentives and constraining new production.

Besides, as some savvy environmentalists are arguing, trying to reduce GHG emissions by chocking fossil fuel supplies — rather than reducing demand for them — is tilting at windmills.)

The race is on to tap the world's biggest and most unusual fossil fuel supply — methane trapped in frozen hydrates in permafrost and at the bottom of the ocean

The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.

And high energy consumption hurts more than just our wallets — it puts the planet at risk by increasing greenhouse gas emissions and depleting fossil fuel supplies.

Hitting production in conjunction with the more affordable and mundane i3, the i8 represents BMW's radical rethinking of personal transportation in light of climate change issues and shrinking fossil fuel supplies.

Because fossil fuel supplies are limited, they are more valuable for other uses (fertilizers, medicines, clothing, plastics, etc.).

Investments in future fossil fuel supply are predicated on an assumption of future demand that is often presented in or informed by corporate energy scenarios.

The majority of the world's fossil fuel suppliers appear to be betting on demand for their product continuing to grow as per business as usual (BAU).

The new economic science shows decisively that the age of endlessly growing industrial capitalism, premised on abundant fossil fuel supplies, is over.

New investments in capital - intensive fossil fuel supplies are locking in high levels of CO2 emissions for decades to come.

Since joining SEI in 2016, Georgia's work has primarily focused on two facets of climate mitigation policy: aligning fossil fuel supply with agreed climate goals, and low - carbon transitions at an urban scale.

Given the scale of such a transition, nations may need to consider a broad suite of policy approaches that aim not only to reduce fossil fuel demand — the current focus — but also constrain fossil fuel supply growth.

We certainly don't need any new coal mines or gas wells to have sufficient fossil fuel supply to keep existing power generators running while we transition to renewable electricity generation.

This shows that intermittencies of wind can be met by supplemental fossil fuel supplies.

Of course, the best way of reducing global fossil fuel supply and demand is to have everybody on Earth doing it simultaneously.

Consumers may justifiably worry that they'll have to pay more for transportation and energy services, if monopoly fossil fuel suppliers pass along the cost of their climate pollution.

This brief explains the rationale for considering fossil fuel supply under the UNFCCC Talanoa Dialogue, and highlights available policy options.

Danielle Droitsch coordinates fossil fuel supply work across NRDC, in support of the organization's emphasis on climate, nature, and community.

It has come out in favor of a so - called «upstream cap and trade» carbon market that would cap emissions at the level of fossil fuel suppliers instead of energy consumers like utilities.

During the early decades of the twenty - first century, the world will be transitioning from an energy system driven by changes in demand to one driven by changes in supply, particularly fossil fuel supplies.

Finally, taxpayer - funded military expeditions have played a crucial role in securing fossil fuel supplies and transport routes — a cost to the public registered not just in billions of dollars but in American lives.

We look forward to these powerful Declarations joining the many other calls heard in the Talanoa Dialogue for the need to address fossil fuel supply.

Do I question that over a very long term basis humans will deplete economically accessible fossil fuel supplies?

The International Conference on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy explores the many opportunities for, and challenges of, these supply - side strategies for limiting coal, oil, and gas, recognizing that many countries rely on fossil fuel extraction and trade for their energy security, economic development, and political influence.

These findings suggest that policy - makers should give greater attention to measures that slow the expansion of fossil fuel supplies.

«This is certainly true for fossil fuel - related approvals, where there is a clear causal connection between each phase of the fossil fuel supply chain (production, transportation, processing, and end - use) and the emissions from these activities can be estimated with existing tools and data.»

For most prototype hydrogen - powered cars, including General Motors» $ 5 million Hy - wire (see «Stop Driving With Your Feet,» Discover, October 2003), fossil fuels supply the hydrogen.

The fossil fuel supply has of coarse bean descused by IPCC but as always some disagree with the conclusions.