"Fuel reserves" refers to a stockpile or supply of fuel that is stored for future use in case of scarcity or emergency situations when fuel may be unavailable or in short supply.
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In the bitter competition for dwindling energy sources, the less developed countries without
fossil fuel reserves of their own will inevitable be the losers.
In order to stand a chance of surviving climate change, we need to keep 80 percent of known fossil
fuel reserves in the ground.
When we did the math back in 2012, we found that 80 % of fossil
fuel reserves need to be kept underground.
And it's since become the conventional wisdom: Many central bankers and world leaders now agree that we need to keep the bulk of fossil
fuel reserves underground.
This working paper outlines a recommended methodology for estimating and reporting the potential emissions from fossil
fuel reserves held by coal, oil, and gas companies.
The estimated fossil
fuel reserves still in the ground represent more than 3 trillion tons of carbon emissions.
The increased price of energy and exhaustion of good -
quality fuel reserves mean it is currently more profitable to use lower - quality fuels.
By increasing the amount of carbohydrates, they have
fuel reserves stored away in the liver and muscle tissues.
The map shows how the listings of coal, oil and gas reserves are distributed, indicating that capital markets are supporting the continued exploitation of fossil
fuel reserves around the world.
This means many investors are backing huge fossil
fuel reserves purely as a result of the structure of the financial products they invest in.
The black line is the trajectory oil and gas production would follow if we stopped exploring for and developing new fossil
fuel reserves today.
Up to 80 % of known fossil
fuel reserves need to stay in the ground to stay within safe climate levels.
The best science is clear that we must leave the vast majority of existing fossil
fuel reserves in the ground.
It explores global reporting practices on
fossil fuel reserves and the nature of any information gaps, as well as considering what steps are necessary to integrate emerging and future climate risks into disclosure.
I did something that is well known to severely inhibit thyroid function,
deplete fuel reserves, reduce blood flow, and slow metabolism to a snail's pace.
That's equivalent to burning just 20 % of the fossil
fuel reserves already on the books of companies and nations that disclose them.
Unless otherwise noted all information contained herein is that of the SPDR ® MSCI Emerging Markets Fossil
Fuel Reserves Free ETF.
[Response: For climate purposes, the problem is coal (and maybe methane hydrates)-- there is more than enough fossil
fuel reserves for the IPCC scenarios.
Richard, a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, talks first about peak oil, a once popular theory about diminishing fossil
fuel reserves which he believes will again soon rear its head, despite recent market trends.
Methane - laced ice crystals in the seafloor store more energy than all the world's fossil
fuel reserves combined.
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.
A head - in - the - sand approach invites an eventual economic upheaval along the lines of the recent Great Recession as fossil
fuel reserves become the sub-prime mortgages of the next financial crisis.
That implies if there is more than that [in fossil
fuel reserves], that you leave some of that carbon in the ground.»
In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Nancy Meyer and Lysle Brinker of HIS consulting and research argue that while although only 24 percent of fossil
fuels reserves by volume are proven, those proven reserves account for 81 percent of the company's valuations by investors.
Thridly the lack of calories contained in the vegetable juice forces the body to burn its
own fuel reserves, firstly as glycogen and then as fat stores.
They too argued that the world can consume no more than 20 % of known fossil
fuel reserves if mankind is to survive which meant the reserves being carried on the books of Big Fossil were dangerously sub-prime.
The World Bank Group continues to invest in exploration for new fossil
fuel reserves despite clear signs that we already have far more fossil fuels than we can afford to burn, and over the last five years, the World Bank Group's total fossil fuel finance has trended upwards, with finance into the billions of dollars nearly every year.
To ensure the fund had a low - carbon footprint, NUBD excludes issuers in sectors having high levels of fossil -
fuel reserve ownership — which includes metals miners and oil and gas producers.
Laughlin says the answer lies in the universe's
secret fuel reserves: brown dwarfs, Jupiter - size balls of hydrogen too massive to be considered planets but that never achieved the heft to become full - fledged stars.
Moreover, this KBO costs less fuel to reach (than other candidate targets), leaving more fuel for the flyby, for ancillary science, and
greater fuel reserves to protect against the unforeseen.»
Emissions orders of magnitude greater than what we've recently recorded are not only possible but probable, given the political / economic determination to monetize fossil
fuel reserves over coming decades.
The authors note that as fossil
fuel reserves shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.
In its response, Exxon denied that global society possesses the will to keep temperatures from increasing by more than two degrees Celsius, and therefore none of the fossil
fuel reserves currently counted as assets will be left unburned.
«Matt Ridley is a coal baron who profits directly from the sale of fossil
fuel reserves while the rest of us suffer the consequences.
And yet instead of focusing on deploying infrastructure that can actually solve the problem, here we are planning and constructing infrastructure that serves to expand our on - the - books fossil
fuel reserves beyond five times as much as the amount we have agreed to limit ourselves to burning.
If global warming accelerates, Schneiderman's logic goes, then Exxon would be stuck with fossil
fuel reserves rendered worthless by future regulations or a concomitant reduced demand for oil.
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