Sentences with phrase «from fossil fuel production»

Rightfully the net gov» t take from fossil fuel production is a maximum to help gov; ts subsidise renewables and help minimise and ultimately eliminate fossil fuel greenhouse gas emissions.

«Achieving the Paris goals requires stopping exploration for, and expansion of, new reserves, and a managed decline and just transition away from fossil fuel production starting with those who have the means to act first and fastest.»

• Advances ambitious, protective and science - based campaigns to ban fracking, keep fossil fuels in the ground, and speed the transition away from all fossil fuel production and use.

San Francisco filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against five oil and gas companies alleging that the carbon emissions from their fossil fuel production had created an unlawful public nuisance.

Conversely, wealthy, developed fossil fuel producers that have benefitted from fossil fuel production for decades have an obligation to prove it is possible to transition an economy off of fossil fuels (see the

This task should be first addressed by countries, regions, and corporate actors who are best positioned in terms of wealth and capacity to undergo an ambitious just transition away from fossil fuel production.

Those democracies that have benefited most from fossil fuel production must be the first to rise to the challenge.

So far, the Cushing Tank Farm, also known as the Cushing Hub, has withstood the earthquakes that have rattled the region for the past few years, the majority of which are believed to be caused by wastewater from fossil fuel production.

Most of it comes from fossil fuel production.

Air pollution from fossil fuel production has contributed to worsening smog and climate change

His main point is the astounding decline in government revenues from fossil fuel production due to criminally low royalties and corporate taxation.

Not exact matches

Indeed, a recent research report from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) found that the majority of methane released in the air over the last 10 years likely came from agricultural sources (cow burps) as opposed to fossil fuel production.

That means making sure prices cover not only the direct costs of supplying energy but also the environmental externalities associated with production and use of fossil fuels — the waste water (which increases a variety of risks), and the broader side effects from vehicle use — congested roads, traffic deaths, and so on.

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.

After all, the latter would entail divesting from the modern economy as a whole, since so many companies gain a distinct advantage from using gas - powered trucks rather than horse - drawn wagons, thus profiting from the production of fossil fuels.

As a seminary we have a moral obligation to no longer profit from the production of fossil fuels.»

But as human population expands and subsistence farming gives way to mechanized agriculture, food production has become reliant on fossil fuel and fertilizers to increase yield from rapidly shrinking farmland.

Closed anaerobic reactors generate large quantities of methane (CH4) from the organic materials in the wastewater that can diminish or even completely replace the use of fossil fuels in the production process.

Energy consumption in agriculture includes the direct consumption of fossil energy (e.g. fuel and oil), as well as indirect energy consumption (e.g. from the production of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides).

The anaerobic digestion technologies — recently applied to a major SE Asian pineapple producer — extract biogas from crop processing waste water streams to simultaneously raise water quality while generating methane to replace fossil fuels used in production processes.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

It comes from a variety of sources, including fossil fuel production and even farming.

«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.»

A leading ecologist with decades of experience in the effects of disturbance on ecosystems, Woodwell shows that diverse industrial activities — from nuclear power production to fossil - fuel burning to contemporary agricultural practices — are affecting the chemical processes that underpin all life on Earth.

The hydrogen would be derived from fossil fuels while researchers explore other methods of production.

Wind power is one of the key sources of renewable energy expected to play an important role in helping to cut emissions and wean society from its dependence on fossil fuels, which means wind - power companies must be prepared to quickly fix mechanical problems that threaten to slow down renewable energy production.

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.

Small - scale gold production and residential heating from other fossil fuels are other major sources.

While ammonia production is critical to humanity, the hydrogen that is needed to produce it comes from fossil fuels.

Currently, about 95 percent of hydrogen production worldwide comes from converting fossil fuels such as natural gas into hydrogen — a process that releases large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air, said Maher El - Kady, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher and a co-author of the research.

From a climate perspective, there is some good news about the likely decline in the growth of fossil fuel production discussed by others at the panel, Tans said.

In response to another question from Sanders, Zinke said he supported extracting fossil fuel from public lands along with supporting wind and solar power, calling for an «all - of - the - above» approach to energy production.

«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.

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.

The team re-evaluated emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement production from 1950 - 2013.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

He is also from a state where fossil - fuel production on public lands is a cornerstone of the economy, and he believes Pres. Barack Obama's administration has been too tough on the industry.

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

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

«Since 1751 roughly 290 billion tons of carbon have been released to the atmosphere from the consumption of fossil fuels and cement production.

Less commonly, countries spoke of reducing the use of inefficient coal - fired power plants, lowering methane emissions from oil and gas production, reforming fossil fuel subsidies, and carbon pricing, the report says.

Those precursor gases come from manmade sources like fossil fuel combustion and production, biofuel combustion, industrial processes and biomass burning.

Each year more than a quarter of global CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and cement production are taken up by the Earth's oceans.

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 rapid rate of climate change since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from changes in atmospheric chemistry, specifically increases in greenhouse gases due to increased combustion of fossil fuels, land - use change (e.g., deforestation), and fertilizer production (Forster et al. 2007).

If it's from corn in the US, emissions are basically the same as if it was pure gasoline (due to the fossil fuel use during production), if it's from sugarcane in Brazil, net emissions are significantly lower.

The global warming gases derived from human activity are produced by fossil fuels used in cars, in industry and in power plants, the agricultural production and the burning forests.

Eliminate (100 %) all unsustainable tax incentives: Tax exemptions, subsidies, regulatory frameworks and other incentives are redirected towards sustainable, knowledge and employment - intensive sectors and local sustainable value chains and away from unsustainable activities, including industrial fisheries, forestry and agriculture, risky and otherwise unsustainable forms of energy production like fossil fuels, nuclear energy, unconventional energy production / franking and industrial bioenergy, extractive industries and chemical industry

They identified anomalous methane fluxes from the south central United States that they tentatively ascribed to fossil fuel production there.

Demonstrating that the overall environmental damage is less than that from coal does not imply that gas production and use is cost - free, and the sooner we reduce our dependence on fossil fuel sources of energy of all kinds the better.