Not exact matches
LONDON — The world is far behind on delivering the low - carbon
energy it needs, and unless urgent action is taken, calamitous climate change is certain, the International Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy d
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needs, and unless urgent action is taken, calamitous climate change is certain, the International
Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy d
Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of
energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy d
energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of
global energy d
energy demand.
«As
global energy demand grows over this century, there is an urgent need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and imported oil and curtail greenhouse gas emissions,» said Secretary of Energy Steve
energy demand grows over this century, there is an urgent
need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and imported oil and curtail greenhouse gas emissions,» said Secretary of
Energy Steve
Energy Steven Chu.
Real world contexts and problems — such as designing sustainable
energy systems, bio-medical engineering, maintaining biodiversity in areas where conflicts arise between local and
global needs —
demand knowledge, concepts and skills from several disciplines.
Global demand for
energy is growing rapidly and must continue to grow to provide the
needs of developing economies.
Rising
global energy needs and the enduring abundance of fossil fuels are driving fuel
demand and emissions growth.
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If business as usual continues, IEA estimates $ 48 trillion of overall investment in
energy would be
needed to meet
global demand between now and 2035.
Even though
global energy demand is the same in either case, effectively we will
need to produce less
energy because less is wasted through inefficient fossil fuel burning.
Massive policy impacts
need very highly significant evidence Proposed mitigation of majority anthropogenic
global warming has very highly significant consequences,
demanding massive transformation of our
energy generation and use.
Remember, this would be just to fulfill the new
demand for
energy, not to displace the vast existing supply of
energy from fossil fuels, which currently supply 80 per cent of
global energy needs.
Between now and 2050, developing countries
need an estimated $ 531 billion per year of additional investment in
energy supply and
demand technologies in order to limit
global temperature rise to 2 ° C above pre-industrial levels.
Faced with the
need to rapidly reduce greenhouse emissions, many believe that
energy efficiency and renewable
energy sources can completely replace fossil fuels and meet
global energy demand.
EIA's report underscores the
need for forward - looking
energy policies that support production that will address America's projected
energy needs — especially in the context of projected increased
global demand.
As Eban Goodstein, Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, so aptly shared immediately following the election, «Our work will not go away... Meeting the
needs of billions of more people all aspiring to a better quality of life
demands that we still rewire the world with clean
energy, still reinvent the
global food system, still rebuild smart and inclusive cities, and fundamentally, put sustainability and sufficiency at the heart of what we are doing on the planet.
Despite the desire to move away from fossil fuels, oil and gas will remain dominant in the
global energy mix — and the
energy world will continue to be consumed by the
need to find oil and gas to meet growing
global demand.
The reality check for the «carbon bubble» proponents is that
global energy demands still
need to be met and that there are limits to the growth rate of fossil
energy substitutes, even as climate goals come under pressure.
What is missing in the report is any discussion about the dynamics of the
global energy system, the
need to meet
energy demand and of course the rapid growth we are seeing in that
demand.
A couple of the big - picture projections in ExxonMobil's annual
global energy outlook: The world's
energy needs will grow 25 percent between now until 2040, with oil, natural gas and coal continuing to meet 80 percent of that
demand.
Efficiency is good and we should strive for more, but it won't eliminate the
need to develop enormous quantities of cheap and zero carbon
energy to meet the
demands of the growing
global economy.6, 7 Can't we solve
global warming with renewables?