Sentences with phrase «fuel reserves while»

«Matt Ridley is a coal baron who profits directly from the sale of fossil fuel reserves while the rest of us suffer the consequences.

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During launch control — selectable in the central screen or via a console button --- a new «torque reserve» system positions the supercharger bypass valve to generate boost and minimize manifold filling time while also cutting fuel to individual cylinders and managing spark timing, all so you can get that 3.5 - second time.

The other shoe is the exchange rate — clearly the ARS is being supported by the central bank, but this puts them between a rock and a hard place — support of the peso drains reserves and ultimately chokes the economy / exports, while a more significant adjustment lower in the rate (to reflect true ARS purchasing power) would probably add further fuel to the fire of the current economic / inflation boom.

But last year the Gates Foundation invested at least $ 1 billion of its holdings in 35 of the top 200 carbon reserve companies, while the Wellcome Trust invested $ 834 million in fuel - industry mainstays Shell, BP, Schlumberger, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.

I propose we begin implementing the viable technologies now, transfer some of the money that is being used to subsidize fossil fuel consumption into research for more technology, and begin the process of weaning our economy now while we still have oil reserves left.

But before doing so, pay attention to this very important note: solar energy potential and energy potential shown for the other renewable energy resources is annual potential, while the energy potential shown for the fossil fuel resources is total recoverable reserves.

This technical document reviews existing reserves and geographical distribution of fossil fuels across the African continent, reviews technical options for decarbonising efforts and provides policy recommendations that would enable the use of resources for the continent's development efforts while ensuring minimisation of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

While vast global coal reserves make this question more neutral with regard to carbon per se, it a more complete socio - politico - economic experiment nonetheless to examine how good we have been at steering the oceanliner of energy policy with regard to foreign oil in the United States, obviously a more simple problem than all fossil fuels together.

This means that, while the world has been consuming more fossil fuels in the last couple of decades, the ratio of reserves - to - consumption has remained more or less constant.

This analysis comes on the heels of reports from scientific bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and International Energy Agency that suggest the world has far greater reserves of fossil fuels already than can be burned while staying within agreed climate limits.

While stranded assets can apply to anything at risk for premature write - downs, this concept has become particularly intertwined with the «stranding» of fossil fuels reserves.

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.

A new survey from Carbon Tracker has revealed that while fossil fuel companies are well aware of the impacts of climate change and the effects carbon - cutting policies will have on fossil fuels reserves, only 7 % integrate the risks into corporate project and capital expenditure assessments.

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.