Sentences with phrase «fuel importing countries»
Moreover, they drive climate change by encouraging the consumption of polluting fuels while tilting the playing field against renewable power and energy efficiency: Fossil - fuel subsidies are five times greater than renewable energy subsidies, and they inflate domestic demand and discourage energy efficiency through artificially low energy prices, undermining the energy security of fossil - fuel importing countries.
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OTTAWA — The United States announced Tuesday that it would impose duties on imports of a new jet made by the Canadian jet maker Bombardier, a decision likely to fuel trade tensions between the United States and Canada just as the two countries face off over the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
«In this context, it is left for Nigerians to then decide whether budgeting for constituency roads is more patriotic than budgeting to complete the Kano - Maiduguri Road that connects five states, the Lagos - Ibadan road that connects three states and helps to move food, imported goods and fuel across the country; or the 2nd Niger Bridge that connects the East and West geopolitical zones of at least 11 states together,» he said.
One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).
«Does he recognise that while other countries have spent the last decade diversifying their supplies of energy, Britain has become even more dependent on imported fossil fuels - threatening our energy security, our economic competitiveness, and our climate change objectives?»
Rising imports of fuel and food prices have eaten into real incomes, putting country at risk of volatile global economy
Nikolai Yegorov, Russia's deputy minister for atomic power, told deputies of the Russian parliament that the country imports between 300 and 400 tonnes a year of uranium reclaimed from reprocessed French fuel.
Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.
Obama would rightly lose all environmental credibility if he were to approve a scheme to double his country's imports of this fossil - fuel basket case.
The U.S. Export - Import Bank (USEXIM) is the third - largest supporter of fossil fuels among all G20 countries, according to a new report out today from Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth U.S., and WWF's European Policy Office.
Following the direction set by President Obama on May 21, 2010, NHTSA and EPA have issued joint Final Rules for Corporate Average Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.
Flex fuel vehicles are common, and the United States has placed large import tariffs on Brazilian ethanol to keep it out of our country.
Similarly, while some fuel - importing nations may see an overall benefit in terms of their trade deficits, there are plenty of oil producing countries who will lose out as demand falls and oil prices remain depressed.
This country did not agree on how to value or price its concerns about oil imports (others taxed oil), whether or not one should move away from oil (others taxed all fuels), and more recently about CO2 (the brave Nordic countries have CO2 taxes).
This is particularly critical for oil importing countries that will be cut off from oil exports at about twice the rate of the global decline in available transport fuels.
The myopic focus on anthropogenic climate change is diverting attention and resources from our critical challenge of developing and transitioning to alternative transport fuels fast enough to prevent massive economic harm especially to oil importing countries.
What's more, virtually all these fuels are imported from other states and foreign countries, transferring money out of the regional economy rather than keeping our valuable energy dollars here at home.
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Export - Import Bank (USEXIM) is the third largest supporter of fossil fuels among all G20 countries, according to a new report from Friends of the Earth U.S. and Oil Change International.
The 6 MW wind farm helps reduce the country's dependence on imports of diesel fuel, freeing up funds for investment in infrastructure (which could include infrastructure that is climate change resilient).
The fact that other countries will begin to reduce their imports of Australian fossil fuels will impose economic costs on Australia.
Likewise, it is often argued that the green economy will increase energy security, as green resources will leave countries less dependent on fossil - fuel imports.
Participating countries are implementing import / export control regimes to prevent conflict diamonds from entering the legitimate diamond trade and fuelling conflicts and human rights abuses.
Wind energy is the fastest expanding sector in Europe, helping to reduce countries reliance on fuel imports.
Same thing for imported oil that's shipped thousands of miles from foreign countries, burning dirty bunker fuel and diesel fuel, a major cause of black carbon soot.
It takes much less fuel to transport local foods to your farmers» market or local store than to import food from other countries or states.»
«The Canadian government is heavily lobbying European countries to derail European climate change efforts, such as the Fuel Quality Directive aimed at reducing emissions from imported transport fuels.
Much like countries across the globe are doing today, Mexico began replacing coal plants with natural gas plants and importing as much fuel from the U.S. as possible.
China's green energy revolution has saved the country from catastrophic dependence on fossil fuel imports
Both also note other co-benefits, such as lower fossil fuel bills for importing countries and lower household energy expenditures.
Commission leaders and some member states are thought to take the view that as Europe is struggling with recession, unemployment and immigration, emphasising the security of gas supplies - despite the need to import the fuel expensively from outside the bloc, including from countries such as Russia with which Europe has a troubled relationship - is more reassuring to business.
When mitigating anthropogenic global warming is projected to require greater than 80 % lower fossil energy use, how do we provide the transport fuel and energy for rapid growth by developing countries while sustaining OECD economic growth when the Available Net Exports of crude oil — after China and India's imports — have already declined 13 % since 2005, and Saudi Arabia may need to import oil by 2030?
As Japan recovers and rebuilds from the disastrous earthquake and tsunami, the country will have to decide whether to rely even more heavily on inherently risky nuclear power and imported fossil fuels or to chart a new energy course.
As such, the country is promoting efforts to decommission fossil fuel based power plants and break its dependence on energy imports by building ever more PV systems and not strangling the market.
We are — as most countries on this planet — dependend on fossil fuel imports.
I presume all of the hydro power plans are located inside the country, and all the uranium for fueling the nuclear plants is imported.
Jordan also suffers from an energy crisis — they import 90 percent of their energy, and fuel is extremely expensive for the impoverished villages that exist outside of the country's urban cities.
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Improving energy efficiency across the economy could strengthen energy security by decreasing the country's reliance on fossil - fuel imports, reduce pressure on public budgets that have historically shouldered billions of euros a year in energy subsidies (although some energy subsidies are now being phased out), reduce costs to consumers and improve the comfort and health of its residents.
«China and Mexico are fueling illegal logging and conflict in the Peruvian Amazon by turning a blind eye to their illegal imports,» said Handy, noting that over 70 % of the timber sources verified in 2015 exports to these two countries were on Osinfor's red list.
On the one hand, just about everything requiring fossil fuels, from a drive in the country to imported produce, will cost more, with prices rising the most for activities or goods that use the most fossil fuels.
The country is reliant on imported fuel for electricity generation.
The same country that has made headlines for measuring Gross National Happiness (there are some legitimate questions for how GNH is calculated) and aiming for 100 % organic agriculture recently announcing a partnership with Nissan to supply electric vehicles (EVs) to government and taxi fleets, as well as electric vehicle chargers, as part of a broad scale effort to cut fossil fuel imports by a whopping 70 %, eventually aiming to become a zero emissions nation.
«The country sends $ 1 billion overseas every day to purchase oil, but publicly funded research in advanced vehicles and alternative fuels totals just $ 680 million annually — about 16 hours worth of oil imports.»
... If natural gas went for transportation fuel it would reduce our imports [of oil] by 38 %, which would save us $ 300 billion a year in this country.
The country's electricity production is 85 % based on non-conventional fossil oil shale and all oil - based motor fuels are imported.
Already, the high cost of these fossil fuel imports has contributed to Japan's newfound trade deficit of $ 32 billion, the country's first in over 30 years.
The Al Rajef Wind Power Project is one of the first wind ventures to be developed under Jordan's feed - in - tariff scheme, as the country seeks to shift away from its dependence on imported fossil fuels.
«Currently, diesel power plants generate approximately 60 percent of Samoa's electricity, making the country dependent upon imported fossil fuels,» Rapa J. Young, solar project team leader for EPC, noted in a statement.