Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel transport»

Working with the policy team from 2012 to 2015, Ben worked on legislative, budgetary, and regulatory issues related to electricity generation and transmission, fossil fuel transport, and transportation fuels at the state and federal level.

The mining of that coal would also destroy Northern Cheyenne lands in Montana's Powder River Basin, and all along the way fossil fuel transport would harm the fishing and treaty rights of Native Americans.

Not exact matches

Why also is eco-friendly British Columbia, home of a provincial carbon tax designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels, being such a willing conduit for transporting US coal to Asian markets?

These 15 risks are: Lack of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock - in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine, Accelerating Transport Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by Climate Change & Cyber Threats.

Climate change: the fossil fuels we consume in our value chain process to operate our facilities, manufacture our products, and transport them to our customers, creates greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

Doesn't food grown close to home help prevent global warming because it requires less fossil fuel to transport?

No chemical / fossil fuel inputs to grow the food for soy or feed the cows for dairy, no packaging, no transport to / from the store, no bottles to manufacture or wash (when not pumping), really no waste at all!

Atmospheric carbon dioxide derives from multiple natural sources including volcanic outgassing, the combustion of organic matter, and the respiration processes of living aerobic organisms; man - made sources of carbon dioxide come mainly from the burning of various fossil fuels for power generation and transport use.

Black carbon is the soot - like byproduct of wildfires and fossil fuel consumption, able to be carried long distances via atmospheric transport.

The Third Industrial Revolution is coming, and Norway needs to abandon fossil fuels and move towards a greener future that relies on renewable energy, shared transport and ultra-efficient housing.

Proponents insist that the reduction of farm equipment needed for harvest and transport would make up the difference by cutting back on fossil fuels.

Properly situated, vertical farms could eliminate the need for long - distance crop transport and refrigeration, reducing fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Coming from an engineering background, I was pleased to see that the only realistic alternative to fossil fuel for transport,...

Coming from an engineering background, I was pleased to see that the only realistic alternative to fossil fuel for transport, namely biofuel from non-food crops, is at last attracting serious attention (8 December, p 34).

Food production accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions when one tallies those from fossil fuels used in growing, preparing and transporting food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer use.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

«Tailpipe emissions are the main source of greenhouse gases from cars that use fossil fuels,» explained Anthony Shaw, a transport program specialist at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, a nonprofit research organization.

And so I think that the logic, you know, the logic of fossil fuel was a centralizing one, it occurred in a few places, it was highly efficient to take it to other centers, easy to transport, you can take it some centralized place, and burn it in mass quantities, produce power that you then distributed widely.

Its combination with oxygen in the atmosphere produces energy and water as its sole by - product, making it one of the main candidates to substitute fossil fuels as a source of energy for the transport sector.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

Synthetic fuels have one particular advantage over batteries or hydrogen as a route to low - carbon transport: by dropping in exactly where fossil fuels are used now, they can reduce emissions dramatically without the need for major new infrastructure or changes in consumer behaviour, which may be decisive in certain cases.

Bottled water wastes fossil fuels in both production and transport, and the plastic bottles continue to end up in our landfills.

Long - distance produce hauling — fruits and vegetables in the United States are transported an average of 1,500 miles — emits greenhouse gases, spews diesel exhaust, and consumes fossil fuels.

Buy Bowls Locally Made of Recycled Matter Eco-friendly food and water bowls on the market include: recycled plastics and glass; stainless steel, which is durable and doesn't often get scratch marks where bacteria can hide; and locally made, lead - free ceramic bowls, which cut down on the use of fossil fuels used to transport the goods.

But that's the catch: right now and in the immediate future manufacture, transport and installation of non-fossil energy sources, from windmill farms to solar thermal plants to solar voltaic panels, will require the emission of fossil fuel generated CO2.

Simply moving production of goods to countries much further than where the demand is only acts to increase the need to transport them a longer distance — which in turn also burns more fossil fuels.

Yet more evidence that the world has vast commercially - exploitable wind and solar energy resources, that are more than sufficient to produce more than enough electricity for all current uses, plus the electrification of ground transport, without fossil fuels or nuclear power.

Most carbon life cycle analysis, using published computer simulations, show that the emissions given off by trying to contain fire actually exceed those from the fire itself given in order to influence fire behavior fossil fuels are used to drive logging trucks, operate machinery, air tankers, and transport wood products, including biomass to fuels.

And they're just one method of people - powered transport that can get you from here to there without fossil fuels, depending on how far you're going.

A carbon tax will make fossil fuel prices come closer to covering full cost, incorporating some of those fuels» currently - excluded costs: our dependence on and enrichment of oil - country despots, huge military costs of protecting distant oil operations and transport, health costs from emissions other than CO2, etc., etc., etc.....

And that, «Electrification both gets transport off fossil fuels, and makes transport more energy - efficient.

Here's a good question, though: how do you transport container - loads of raw materials all around the world without access to cheap fossil fuels?

Never mind the fossil fuel energy required to manufacture, transport, and if you choose to be green after all, recycle these plastic bottles.

And that's just to make the paper; don't forget about the energy inputs — chemical, electrical, and fossil fuel - based — used to transport the raw material, turn the paper into a bag and then transport the finished paper bag all over the world.

We need to use it to outfit ourselves with the physical capital in efficient buildings and transport, solar panels, wind turbines, and so on, that will be needed when, as we must, we decide we don't need fossil fuels anymore, and we need to use the power and prestige it gives us to promote democracy around the world, but especially in Russia and China.

As oil prices drop, biofuels and transport electrification businesses become less economically attractive compared to using fossil fuels on an unsubsidized basis.

It's now pretty clear that renewables can replace fossil fuels in their main uses, electricity generation and land transport, at a very modest cost or, as appears to be the case for electricity, with a cost saving.

Nuclear is absolutely needed not just to stop the hand - wringing over climate change but to free mankind from the erstwhile shackles of fossil fuels, which by comparison, is dirty, expensive, inefficient, dangerous to mine, transport, and refine, and fraught with geopolitical dangers and uncertainties.

Even if the NAAQS for CO2 did not require much of the economy — all fossil - fuel - based power generation, manufacture, transport, and agriculture — to simply shut down, it would effectively prohibit growth in those sectors.

The CDM Board at its 99th meeting here in Bonn approved a new methodology for calculating the volume of emission reductions achieved through projects that establish bicycle lanes, bicycle parking, and bicycle - sharing programmes, encouraging a shift in passenger transport modes from their usual fossil - fuel - burning traffic in favor of clean and green pedal power such as bicycles, three - wheelers or e-bikes.

Fossil fuels are needed to make all the components and transport all of the components.

Tar sands, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels in commercial production, would undermine European climate policies on transport fuels.

Most of the global CO2 emissions issue could be solved with low cost nuclear power (low cost nuclear will replace, over the course of this century, fossil fuels for electricity generation which will then displace gas for heating and produce «energy carriers» to replace fossil fuels for transport fuels).

Obviously, the melting and recasting of several thousand bottles required the use of a lot of fossil fuel; transport over the round trip of several hundred kilometres to the bottle factory would add to the total.

In the near — next 20 - 30 years, it is almost certainly a better option to pursue PHEVs aggressively, to shift as much of the transportation network as possible to an electricity based mode (this goes for all land transport — cars and rail) and away from fossil fuels.

Right now there's a huge agglomeration of companies involved in digging up, processing, transporting, and burning fossil fuels for energy.

• nuclear power will be substantially cheaper than fossil fuel electricity generation • cheap electricity substitutes for some gas for heating and oil for land transport (as in electric vehicles and low - cost electricity producing energy carriers).

Today, we are tackling part of one of the issues at the core of international climate injustice: specifically, the transport and refinement of oil but also, more largely, the fossil fuel industry itself.

We need all possible liquid fossil fuels for transport as we transition to alternative transport fuels.

This study looks at the impact of low - carbon transformations in power and road transport, sectors which together account for just 50 % of global fossil fuel demand and CO2 emissions approximately.