Sentences with phrase «fuel reserves in»

The University College London team used a complex energy system model to investigate the fraction of «unburnable» fossil fuel reserves in 11 specific regions worldwide.

Harvard's decision comes less than a week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounded the alarm for immediate action on climate change and the necessity for keeping much of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, a reality that will affect investments in fossil fuels.

For climate activists, however, the biggest argument against new oil - by - rail facilities has always been the need to «keep it in the ground,» that is, not developing certain fossil fuel reserves in order to prevent harmful globe - warming emissions.

«At a time when science is crystal clear that we need to leave most proven fossil fuel reserves in the ground, anything that makes further exploration and development more profitable — like this EU proposal — is totally irresponsible.»

CEO Anne - Marie Corboy said HESTA's Investments and Governance Team expects that the push to limit global warming, through a reduction in the burning of carbon, is likely to impact investments in fossil fuel reserves in the long term.

But what would be the implication of building, or not building, the KXL pipeline if the U.S. were committed to keeping as much as 80 percent of current fossil fuel reserves in the ground?

The best science is clear that we must leave the vast majority of existing fossil fuel reserves in the ground.

In fact, a 2015 study in the journal Nature revealed that we need to leave at least 80 percent of the world's known remaining fossil fuel reserves in the ground to prevent runaway climate change.

of the world's known remaining fossil fuel reserves in the ground to prevent runaway climate change.

Ending the climate crisis means we have to keep fossil fuel reserves in the ground.

There have been several studies of this strategy, and the ones I've seen show the world blowing well past 2 - or 3 - degree - C temperature increases, unless the major energy companies leave most of their currently known fossil fuel reserves in the ground along with any new discoveries.

In order to stand a chance of surviving climate change, we need to keep 80 percent of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground.

World governments must get used to the idea of leaving fossil fuel reserves in the ground unexploited and unburned, one of the world's most senior diplomats has said, ahead of...

Jeremy Leggett, a geologist who was once an oil industry consultant and now runs Greenpeace's climate campaign, concludes that «we have no option but to leave the vast majority of the remaining fossil - fuel reserves in the ground».

We must leave 80 percent of the current fossil fuels reserves in the ground.»

We encourage you to keep calling on the government to take ambitious measures that keeps fossil fuels reserves in the ground to meet our Paris commitment, that transition our economy to 100 % by 2050, and is just for Indigenous Peoples and workers.

Not exact matches

If the world's governments fulfil their pledges to tackle climate change by cutting carbon emissions, many fossil fuel reserves would have to be kept in the ground, potentially wasting trillions of investors» money.

Working out first thing in the morning appears to push the body to tap into its fat reserves for fuel, as opposed to simply «burning off» our most recent snack or meal.

With an eye on the nation's fuel supply, the Department of Energy authorized a release of crude oil from the strategic petroleum reserve in order to help Phillips 66 get its Lake Charles refinery up and running.

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.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

Oil and gas companies, the most profitable corporations in history, are counting their fossil fuel reserves as money in the bank and continuing to spend capital on finding and developing even larger reserves.

In order to send a message to fossil fuel companies that oil and coal reserves are best left in the ground, the movement encourages investors to sell their shares in these companieIn order to send a message to fossil fuel companies that oil and coal reserves are best left in the ground, the movement encourages investors to sell their shares in these companiein the ground, the movement encourages investors to sell their shares in these companiein these companies.

It prompts central bankers to buy - up the main international trading currency (the US$) using newly - printed local currency, resulting in the build - up of foreign currency reserves, growth in the local currency supply, and an unsustainable monetary - inflation - fueled boom in the local economy.

Another factor fueling earnings growth is a dramatic reduction in the reserves banks have set aside for future loan losses, as fewer U.S. borrowers default.

Babies who reach critically low levels of reserve fuel and fluids before their mother's milk comes in can be found lethargic with compromised vital signs after hours of constant nursing and fussing, at which time they are often diagnosed with hypoglycemia, excessive weight loss and / or hyperbilirubinemia, all markers of starvation.

Beneficial fats: Fat in mother's milk provides your baby with energy for growth and a reliable source of fuel reserves.

If we limit global warming to 2 degrees through government regulation and cheap and abundant clean energy, this essentially means roughly 80 % of fossil fuels have to stay in the ground, devaluing these reserves.

«Robert Halfon's debate on fuel prices highlights a growing problem in the Chamber Main John Baron MP says Bundesbank should use its # 130 billion of gold reserves if Germany wants to save $ uro»

In winter months, when demand for heat cranks up, there are two reserve systems: an additional heating plant fueled by wood chips, and another (rarely used) furnace that burns traditional oil.

Methane - laced ice crystals in the seafloor store more energy than all the world's fossil fuel reserves combined.

British and Finnish scientists have found a way of generating renewable propane using a bacterium widely found in the human intestine and say the finding is a step to commercial production of a fuel that could one day be an alternative to fossil fuel reserves.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

Because the world's uranium supply is finite and the continued growth in the numbers of thermal reactors could exhaust the available low - cost uranium reserves in a few decades, it makes little sense to discard this spent fuel or the «tailings» left over from the enrichment process.

Indeed, as the world's other energy reserves diminish, mining companies may find themselves compelled to invest in technologies for exploiting the world's last great reserve of carbon - based fuel.

Interest in hydrates has skyrocketed in recent years because global deposits are thought to harbor more fuel energy than all the world's coal, oil and natural gas reserves combined.

Given the vastness of the world's marine methane hydrate deposits — more than twice the carbon reserves of all other fossil fuels combined — it's not surprising that government agencies and the petroleum and natural gas industries have long been interested in harvesting this new energy supply.

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.

Some supernovae have a reserve tank of radioactive fuel that cuts in and powers their explosions for three times longer than astronomers had previously thought.

Forsberg added that the spent nuclear fuel currently awaiting a home in the U.S. could be compared with «a super-strategic petroleum reserve.

But «it would take a lot of CO2, and there might not be enough carbon in the entire fossil fuel reserve to do it.»

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Knisely even concluded that the fossil fuel industry might need to leave 80 percent of its recoverable reserves in the ground to avoid doubling CO2 concentrations, a notion now known as the carbon budget.

There are enough fossil fuel reserves (in oil, coal, and methane hydrates) to continue to increase CO2 way beyond 400ppmv as will be seen in a very few number of years.

When hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» to access unconventional oil and gas reserves was a hot topic in the fossil fuel industry, Ryerson was tapped to lead a team to develop GEOS — a dynamic computational rock mechanics and hydrologic tool — that can model facture propagation, resulting seismic signals and pressure - driven fluid flow through a rock mass.

The rapid increase in domestic natural gas production from shale reserves has significantly impacted the economics of coal fuels used for power and heat in recent years.

McKibben [255], published in a popular magazine, uses quantitative results of M2009 to conclude that most remaining fossil fuel reserves must be left in the ground, if global warming this century is to be kept below 2 °C.

Although there are uncertainties in reserves and resources, ongoing fossil fuel subsidies and continuing technological advances ensure that more and more of these fuels will be economically recoverable.

The body stores the majority of your reserve fuel in either muscle or fat.

If the immune cells themselves lack glutamine to make the necessary repairs, they will find another source in another place.Since we already concluded that the body's reserves of glutamine are found in your muscles, then your muscles will be the first thing being broken down when the immune system is in search of fuel.