Sentences with phrase «fuel producing investments»

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The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

As part of the largest investment in coal - fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history, the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large - scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters of synthetic natural gas annually.

In order to have a hope of replacing fossil fuels, scientists need to develop materials that can be easily mass - produced and convert enough sunlight to electricity to be worth the investment.

The World ex USA SRI ex Fossil Fuels Index is comprised of the common stocks of the companies in the MSCI World ex USA SRI Index (the World ex USA SRI Index), minus the stocks of the companies that explore for, extract, produce, manufacture or refine coal, oil or gas or produce or transmit electricity derived from fossil fuels or transmit natural gas or have carbon reserves included in the World ex USA SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) IFuels Index is comprised of the common stocks of the companies in the MSCI World ex USA SRI Index (the World ex USA SRI Index), minus the stocks of the companies that explore for, extract, produce, manufacture or refine coal, oil or gas or produce or transmit electricity derived from fossil fuels or transmit natural gas or have carbon reserves included in the World ex USA SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) Ifuels or transmit natural gas or have carbon reserves included in the World ex USA SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) Index.

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

Waste Management has made a strategic investment in Enerkem, a developer of a thermochemical (gasification and catalytic synthesis) process to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals from biomass and waste, as part of Enerkem's new... Read more →

Global investment in renewable power and fuels (excluding large hydro - electric projects) was $ 270.2 billion in 2014, nearly 17 % higher than the previous year, according to the latest edition of an annual report commissioned by the United Nations Environment Program's (UNEP) Division of Technology, Industry and Economic (DTIE) in cooperation with Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance and produced in collaboration with Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

There are around 116,000 gasoline stations in the United States, so any serious attempt at producing fuel - cell vehicles will require a huge investment in fueling stations.

The main issues under discussion were the link between climate change and a eucalypped forest that produced the catastrophic fires of 2017, the threat of underwater mining in the Azores region, the impact of the new mechanisms of international trade (Multilateral Investment Court) in climatic injustice, the necessary relationship between combating climate change and promoting public transport, threats to the exploitation of fossil fuels in Portugal, alternative sources of energy and the migration process linked to climate change.

In contrast, locally grown produce traveled on average 56 miles — a huge difference in fuel investment.

There is only one effective, sustainable way to produce «green jobs,» and that is with a fixed, durable, long - term price signal that raises the price of dirty fuels and thereby creates sustained consumer demand for, and sustained private sector investment in, renewables.