Sentences with phrase «fuel producing countries»

An imbalance that allows many fossil fuel producing countries (think Norway, Canada, the U.K etc.), to insist they are showing climate leadership all the while they are continuing to explore, expand, and exploit massive fossil fuel reserves with no meaningful plan for how they are going to stop it in line with safe climate limits.

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Both companies produce fuel cells that convert hydrogen into clean electricity and nearly half of Ballard's sales now come from China, as the country adds hydrogen - fuelled electric buses to its roads.

That could imperil the United States» ability to create good - paying jobs for future generations, relegating the country to producing food, fossil fuels and financial services, while China extends its lead as the world's largest manufacturer.

A few years later, LifeLine Foods and ICM Inc., the world leader in ethanol facility design and engineering, formed a joint venture to transform the corn mill into the country's first corn - processing plant that utilizes a proprietary technology developed by ICM to produce food and fuel simultaneously.

Think of all the fuel used to transport produce or baby foods across country when we can get lots of great fruits and vegetables right in our own back yard!

The 1997 Kyoto Conference — a world meeting on fossil - fuel use — produced an agreement by a handful of highly industrialized countries to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2010.

The group led by Martín Olazar, researcher in the UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country's Department of Chemical Engineering, is studying the development of sustainable refineries where it is possible to produce fuels and raw materials providing an alternative to petroleum by using biomass and other waste materials like plastics, tires, etc..

As countries produce more conventional and unconventional fuels, the planet is warming in areas where methane hydrates exist.

Fermenting the sugars in the country's abundant sugar cane produced a motor fuel that lowered carbon dioxide emissions, and many saw Brazil as a model for how the world could shed its addiction to oil, creating jobs along the way.

In these countries, used fuel is recycled to recover uranium and plutonium (produced during irradiation in reactors) and reprocess it into new fuel.

Iran agreed to ship spent nuclear fuel out of the country and promised not to produce weapons - grade plutonium.

And in fact, the anthropomorphized, clothes - wearing wildlife of this country village have hosted quite the produce - fueled rager in the McGregor home.

Determined to prove the (Euro - only, new for 2012) XF 2.2 is the most fuel efficient sedan Jaguar has ever produced, the automaker sent one specimen out in the wild (with independent testers in tow) on an 816 - mile journey through four countries.

Available for lease in selected countries, it was followed by the B - Class F - Cell, of which some 200 examples were produced between 2011 and 2017 in what is described as the largest fleet of hydrogen fuel - cell vehicles yet established for testing purposes.

It produced unexpected power and torque, also pairing nicely with the six - speed automatic transmission for safe overtaking on various occasions, undoubtedly contributing to the car's fuel consumption of 8.9 L / 100 km in a mix of urban and country driving over a length of around 85 km.

FlexFuel can be advantageous in parts of the country where higher - percentage ethanol fuel blends are offered, as GM FlexFuel engines have been engineered to produce more horsepower while running high - octane blends.

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.

It's good old fashioned black carbon soot — a visible pollutant with measurable effects on human health both in poor places, where it comes from cooking or heating using coal, firewood or dung, and rich countries, where it is produced mainly through the combustion of diesel and similar fuels and from some industries.

In more than 30 countries, electricity produced through solar and wind energy is the same price or cheaper than any new fossil fuel capacity, the report, released last Wednesday, noted.

Available wind power in this country, where the potential for pump storage is poor, should be used solely to produce hydrogen which can be used in return as fuel or as a chemical commodity,» energy expert Dr. Günther Keil, asserts.

At the same time, cleaner fuels produced by our country's world - class refining sector have helped make today's cars and trucks 99 percent cleaner for common pollutants than their 1970s forebears.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

Explore our energy resources data: identify national and regional fossil fuel reserves, renewables installed capacity, rank top producing countries and value resources» potential in countries around the world.

If the country's economy grows enough then the target could be hit, provided industry becomes more efficient in its use of fossil fuel produced power, even if total carbon emissions actually rise.

Seeker, it's quite possible to produce biodiesel on the scale needed to replace fossil fuel use, only in most countries (even the USA, but not Australia) that would displace food production too much (see Nassau Senior's introductory remarks on machinery not affecting food availability in his classic work on «Wages»).

The nationwide market would initially cover only China's vast, state - dominated power generation sector, which produced almost half of the country's emissions from the burning of fossil fuels last year.

Or maybe you don't realize that once you've shut down the trucking industry in Western countries, you've also shut down most of the shipping industry, both for lack of fuel and because there's no incentive to keep on producing and moving goods that can't be sold.

Most fossil - fuel - producing countries are far from the locus of climate - change policy development, despite the impact that it will have on their economic prospects.

According to EIA, the quantity of oil and other liquid energy sources produced by the three countries could outpace their liquid fuels consumption as soon as 2020.

Most fossil - fuel - producing countries are far from the locus of climate - change policy development, despite the impact that it will have on their economic prospects... As a result, these countries remain woefully unprepared for what is coming

Your idea in completely unrealistic because there is no source of funds to pay countries to not produce the fossil fuel resources they have and there is every motivation for those countries to exploit those same resources in order to gain a source of funds.

The future of the planet therefore depends mainly on the few place that produce the preponderance of fossil fuels: the U.S. and Canada, the European Union, China, India, Russia and the countries of the Arabian Gulf.

Many, mostly oil producing, countries provide their inhabitants with transport fuels below the world price.

Analysis of CO2 emission trends in four major cement - producing countries showed that energy efficiency improvement and reduction of clinker content in cement were the main factors contributing to emission reduction, while the carbon intensity of fuel mix in all countries increased slightly.

Robert Zubrin thinks the United States can break free from the grip of Middle East oil - producing countries by immediately mandating that all cars sold in this country be «flex - fuel vehicles,» capable of running on gasoline, ethanol or methanol.

Set it too low, and it may be so strict that countries don't sign on to the agreement because they're afraid their economies will become too stunted if they have to stop using fuels that produce emissions.

It's also a growing movement across the country, as governments and businesses seek to liberate themselves from using power produced by environmentally harmful fossil fuels.

Two other projects are afoot in the middle of the country, including one that is already producing renewable diesel that can be blended into jet fuel at a ratio of one part in 10 as soon as ASTM gives the green light.

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.

But the upside is three-fold: (i) your tax reduction or dividend check will offset much, perhaps more than 100 %, of those price increases; (ii) you'll be able to minimize your tax bite by cutting down on fuel usage (e.g., shortening those country drives, buying locally - grown produce, purchasing «green power» from wind and solar cells); and (iii) Americans» combined behavior changes in response to the carbon tax will go a long way toward protecting the climate and averting the cataclysmic consequences of unchecked global warming.

«When you can trace the lion's share of humanity's carbon emissions from fossil fuel use since the invention of the steam engine to a few dozen companies that have produced those carbon fuels, the story becomes more powerful than just looking at emissions on a country - by - country basis,» Heede explained.

The fossil fuels produced from federal lands and waters are responsible for nearly 28 % of the country's energy - related greenhouse gas emissions.

Moreover, setting aside the wisdom of bragging about increasing taxes on their citizens, the municipalities fail to mention that it's still completely legal and explicitly encouraged by the governments of Colorado, the United States, and every other country in the world to produce fossil fuels.

It can be easy to forget, given the heated rhetoric tossed about by supporters of these lawsuits, but it is still perfectly legal in this country to produce, market, sell, and use fossil fuels.

[126] For example, in the main international treaty on climate change (the UNFCCC), countries report on emissions produced within their borders, e.g., the emissions produced from burning fossil fuels.

Because that's the direction we're heading in if we continue to fall further and further behind other countries in producing fuel - efficient vehicles.

Another thing is that, global production of goods mostly happens in those «cheap» countries, so they can hardly be criticised for having fuel pollution issues can they as they produce probably 80 % of the worlds goods.

The simplest and most common way to compare the emissions of countries is to add up all the fossil fuels burned and cement produced in each nation and convert that into CO2.

Safa» Al Jayoussi, IndyAct's head of climate and energy, told the workshop that divisions are emerging between countries in the region that produce fossil fuel, and those which don't.

The Renewable Fuels Standard set a target for the country to produce 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol next year.