Sentences with phrase «fuel reserves need»

When we did the math back in 2012, we found that 80 % of fossil fuel reserves need to be kept underground.

The basic facts of climate change are grim: 80 % of fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground for us to stay below 2 °C * of warming and fossil fuel companies aren't going to do that without a fight.

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(b) whether adequate supplies and reserves of natural gas, crude oil and refined fuels will be available for Alberta's present and future needs, and

Cuomo said the state has since set up fuel reserves, made sure there are backup generators where needed at key gas stations, and made the power grid more resilient.

But thinking beyond 2020, we will eventually need to work out how to make the agreement both more effective and more acceptable to nations, companies and individuals that own substantial fossil - fuel reserves — or the US won't be the last to leave.

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.

Your body will use fat reserves for fuel if needed.

They make the body need more fuel for it to function and so it starts burning the body's fat reserves to meet the demands.

Don't calorie count or skimp if you're an exerciser... Your body needs the fuel in order to have the reserves to properly produce sex and stress hormones, among other things!

You need to let your gas tank get a little empty so you can switch on your reserve (stored) tank of fuel.

Previously, the throttle needed to be 80 % engaged before the reserves of the electric motor were combined with those of the combustion engine in an earlier strategy aimed at optimizing fuel economy.

And a state of affairs needing to be achieved by the date that its fossil fuel reserves finally deplete.

Shareholder action can be an effective tool to make small reforms at a company — such as pressuring Apple to institute better labour practices at the factories it works with in China — but it won't achieve the fundamental changes to the business model of the fossil fuel industry needed: keeping their coal, oil and gas reserves in the ground.

At present, the energy needed to facilitate this rapidly growing economy is derived primarily from coal and other fossil fuels, of which China has significant national reserves.

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

The combination of needing to limit carbon dioxide emissions and having fossil fuel companies that are valued by their proven reserves is what Carbon Tracker, a non-profit organization, is calling the «Carbon Bubble» in their new report, «Unburnable carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets.»

Recent reports on the current status of the reserves of fossil fuels point to a the need to switch to alternative energies such as Solar Power.

Reducing fossil fuel emissions to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less means that a huge amount of proven fossil fuel reserves will need to stay in the ground.

We need to stop using fossil fuel so that there will be plenty of reserve for Dicaprio to fly his personal jets to «save the planet» rock concerts and Paris accords.

The flywheel energy stores should be capable of maintaining electrical supply long enough for alternative power sources (at present probably fossil fuelled) to power up; avoiding so much need for «spinning reserve».

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.

«Smart investors can already see that most fossil fuel reserves are essentially unburnable because of the need to reduce emissions in line with the global agreement by governments to avoid global warming of more than 2 °C.

To understand the potential environmental impact of carbon stocks, companies need to measure uncalculated stores of GHG emissions within their fossil fuel reserves and account for them accordingly.»

In order to keep global temperature rise within range of safe levels, fossil fuel companies will need to consider a major shift in strategies, including limits on how much of their reserves they would use.

PM - 10 ERC needs for given amounts of generation capacity can be reduced by limiting the maximum monthly fuel throughput along with output of resources needed primarily for reserves.

Bill McKibben says we need to «do the math,» which is to take the known fossil fuel reserves that oil and gas companies expect to tap and add that to the carbon already trapped in the atmosphere.

These articles paint oil and gas as the only reliable energy source for the future, describe the need to expand fossil fuel reserves, and ignore the possibility of a carbon - restricted future.

However, having 10 times as many people needing energy doesn't magically multiply fuel reserves.

[1] Value [edit] Author Bill McKibben has estimated that to achieve human life to continue in the world up to $ 20tn worth of fossil fuel reserves will need to remain in the ground, essentially worthless.

«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.»

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.

Therefore, burning through only 26 percent of these reserves would break the carbon budget, meaning roughly 74 percent of fossil fuels would need to remain unused to limit warming to 2 degrees C.

McKibben closes his case by highlighting research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative which reports that burning the total amount of coal, oil and gas reserves currently held by fossil fuel companies would release five times the amount of carbon needed to stay under the two - degree threshold.

According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, around 80 % of known fossil fuel reserves would need to stay in the ground for humanity to limit the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere to 450 parts per million.

We need to stop using them long before they run out: particularly, before the worldâ $ ™ s massive reserves of coal and unconventional fossil fuels are tapped.

The United Church is a major institution that agrees with the simple fact that the majority of the world's fossil fuel reserves, including Canada's tar sands, need to stay in the ground and their decision makes it even more ridiculous that no Canadian political party is putting forward climate policies that acknowledge this,» said Cam Fenton, tar sands organizer at 350.org.

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.

Among them, about $ 3 trillion in global investments — including enormous funds like the California state pension fund — could find themselves busted by «stranded assets,» as the fuel reserves that energy companies calculate into their net worth would need to stay unused to avert the worst of climate change.

CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere at alarming rates, and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently stated that the majority of known reserves of fossil fuels will need to be left in the ground if we [& hellip

«For us, the science is really clear; we need to keep 80 percent of the world's gas, oil and coal reserves within the ground if we are going to have any chance of keeping the rise in climate to within 2degC, so we think divesting from fossil fuels is very much a pertinent issue of the age, and we need to start acting now.