Sentences with phrase «fossil fuels we need»

«This world - class technology — which can be applied globally by all community - minded companies with organic waste and wastewater streams — produces both green energy to supplant fossil fuel needs as well as delivering high quality treated wastewater to safeguard community water standards.

The era of fossil fuels need to be ended,» said Hawkins.

To cut our emissions, fossil fuels need to be replaced with low - carbon energy sources such as nuclear power and renewables, and fossil fuel power stations need to be fitted with carbon - capture technology.

Clearly we are getting closer to the statement that the remaining fossil fuels need to be left in the ground.

Instead we spend our time debating how much coal and other fossil fuels we need next year to meet our needs.

Fossil fuels need to become the energy equivalent of the eight - track tape.

Burning of fossil fuels needs oxygen and the observed decrease in the atmosphere since measurements began in 1989 closely match the corresponding increase in CO2.

Money that would have been spent on fossil fuels needs to be spent, instead, on renewables.

Renewable energy generation and management needs to be supported, and the use of fossil fuels needs to be discouraged in all areas — in industry, in agriculture, and in residential communities.

Swift notes in a blog that the scientists» statement follows a study published earlier this year in the journal Nature, which shows that most fossil fuels need to stay in the ground to avoid dangerous climate change.

«Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles» found that even when accounting for the metals required to build PV cells, the efficiency of the cells, and the waste produced, PV cells still emit less global warming pollution throughout their life cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of power.

The International Energy Agency said in 2012 that two - thirds of fossil fuels need to remain unused.

Merkley's figure exceeds an estimate from the International Energy Agency that two - thirds of identifiable fossil fuels need to be unburned.

As well as reducing our reliance on fossil fuels we need to reduce competition over resources and address the growing socio - economic divisions which are set to fuel environmental conflicts.

Shareholders and investors in fossil fuels need to be aware that they now face a liability that will amount to hundreds of billions of dollars — their products are killing people, and it is only a matter of time before the wheels of international justice begin to turn.

As the report explains, a full - scale phase out of fossil fuels needs to be well underway within the next 15 years.

Thus, if we supplement considerably with solar, wind, water / tidal, some biofuels, etc... we will significantly improve the longevity of fossil fuels we need while reducing their combustion by an amazing percentage of total energy source use.

This forecast amount and today's current use is calculated by all energy use and climate change authorities to determine how much fossil fuel needs to be cut and by when.

«Does the [IPCC] report support recent claims that two - thirds of fossil fuels need to stay in the ground?

In order to displace base load production like nuclear or fossil fuel we need massive grid storage.

Burning fossil fuels needs to end in the same way that murder needs to end.

For the first time in decades, the nation's treasured trade surplus is gone, eroded by soaring imports of fossil fuels needed to replace the 30 percent of the nation's electricity once supplied by more than 50 nuclear reactors idled since last March's disaster.

Not exact matches

Just listen to the urgent speeches from world leaders, and you might think that most governments agree that while we have no sustainable, clean alternative to fossil fuels that we can implement on a large scale today, we need to find one and put it in place quickly.

Ultimately, oil and gas companies need to become what they claim to be; «integrated energy companies», rather than integrated fossil fuel companies.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»

«When you look at energy demand, we're going to need fossil fuels until at least 2050,» he said.

Asian investors in particular are growing weary of Canada's sluggish pace of building energy infrastructure — the pipelines and liquefied natural gas facilities needed to get Canadian fossil fuels to offshore markets.

«You don't even need to believe in climate change and carbon and all that stuff,» says Keller, who supports a mandatory 10 - to 15 - year phaseout of fossil - fuel imports.

Fossil fuel - based energy production needs to stop getting subsidized, and we need massive investment in and adoption of renewable energy sources.

As our energy system increasingly switches from fossil fuels to clean power, we will need both more renewable energy supply and greater integration of our power grids.

Nearly 15 % of the electricity consumed in the United States each year is used to keep people cool, meaning America uses as much fossil fuel for air conditioning as Africa uses for all its energy needs.

Having acknowledged the need to turn from the overdependence on fossil fuels to more environmentally friendly sources of energy, the government has tried to encourage the production of automobiles that use alternative sources of fuel by trying to give tax incentives to any buyers of such cars.

A: They're doing a not - bad job of it if that's your goal, to find that big mushy middle where the Liberal party likes to live, where most Canadians or at least a lot of Canadians see themselves: we see the benefits of this industry and want it do continue to prop up our economic success, while we also see that we need to move away from fossil fuels.

We don't need more time to «figure out how to get off our fossil fuel addiction».

Currently, the world still needs fossil fuels.

The province, though, needs to recognize that if an emission - constrained world is going to limit the royalty revenue it collects from extracting fossil fuels, then it will be better off with a tax regime that adds money to provincial coffers when fuel is burned.

Let's suppose for a second that our survival instincts trump our need to burn ever - greater amounts of fossil fuels.

If you don't think people consume too much by way of fossil fuels, then there's no need for a carbon tax.»

Fossil fuel company's need to recongnize this, and use their large cash flows to fund renewable energy investment to give share holders the best returns available.

Energy prices, in particular, have risen sharply: Japan buys virtually all of its oil and gas abroad, and the post-Fukushima shutdown of the country's nuclear industry has further increased the need for fossil fuels.

«It is possible to get off fossil fuels — we just need to make it happen.»

To live up to that duty, science tells us we must reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, and find better ways to create and use the energy we need.

The Anglo - Dutch company, like many of its peers, has faced growing investor pressure to address the need to reduce fossil fuel burning.

If we know we need to set out on a path towards fossil fuel wind - down, then now is not the time to be investing in new infrastructure that aims towards ramp - up.

«A government begging for this industrial onslaught to accelerate, at a time when we know we need to transition away from fossil fuels, is the definition of reckless.»

But as we become more conscious of these matters as part of caring for creation, we can recognize the need so to build as to free our congregations from dependence on fossil fuels for heating and cooling.

Cheap fossil fuel has turned us into the first people in human history who have essentially no need of each other — a kind of hyperindividualism has replaced community.

So if we want to find out how many fossils were not preserved we need to estimate the amount of fossil fuels produced by each fossil, then collect the fossils that are remaining in the earth, then measure the amount of fossil fuel still left in the earth.

To give some sense of the scale: most scientists estimate that merely to hold climatic disruption at its current Katrina - spawning level we'd need an immediate worldwide 70 percent reduction in fossil fuel use.

That's a huge shortfall that needs to be met with a nutritional source that doesn't add to fossil fuel, fertilizer or pesticide use or place excessive demands on freshwater consumption.