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The oil and natural gas industry is also focused on how to meet national and global energy needs as efficiently as possible.

Not exact matches

But as we wait for the global energy market to rebound, and for the Petronas - lead consortium to come to a decision regarding its LNG processing plant in Prince Rupert, we need to ask ourselves: What should Canada be doing to fill the gap?

Amid surging energy prices and the need for measures to counter global warming, green energy generation from wastewater treatment does not always get as much attention as more traditional renewables such as solar and wind.

And, while some tout nuclear energy as the solution to the global energy crisis, it actually accounts for only 2.5 percent of the world's electricity needs.

They then come up with another bizarre statement, that «government is on trial as well as the markets» when everyone actually knows there is a need for restoring a strong positive role for government which alone was able to bail out the banks and prevent a global economic crash as well as alone having the capacity to deal with soaring energy bills and transport fares, tackle climate change, and counter the bonus greed and tax avoidance of the super-rich.

But global energy use is set to fall in 2009 for the first time since 1981 as a result of the global economic crisis, reducing the need for emission reductions by a full two billion metric tons, according to the IEA.

The researchers call for a need to move beyond a sole focus on mitigating the effects of climate change to reach solutions that consider global carbon reduction targets as well as local energy and environmental contexts.

The environmental impacts of alternative energy need to be balanced against the impacts of the energy they replace, such as fossil fuels driving global climate change, Schimel said.

«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 Steveenergy 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 SteveEnergy 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.

While the global economy has been shaky over the last few years, I can't imagine scarce resources not becoming more valuable over time as they continue to become more and more rare and as the global population continues to rise and countries needing more basic materials to build, expand or consume energy.

The gap between pledges and what scientists say would be needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions even as the global energy thirst crests in coming decades prompted Roberts to write of «Whispering Fire on a Crowded Planet.»

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

Andy Revkin wrote» Overall, inertia, both in Washington and elsewhere, still dominates even as the need to embark on an intensive, sustained, global effort to boost energy efficiency, curb greenhouse - gas emissions, and advance promising non-polluting energy technologies (no matter what you think of climate dangers) has grown ever clearer.

Many of those promoting stasis in the face of a clear need for a global energy quest have used this saga as a kind of «blackwash» that will long linger like a cloud, tainting public appreciation of even the undisputed basics of science pointing to a rising human influence on climate.

We don't need renewable energy so much as global concerted effort to reduce population.

Facing the intertwined challenges of expanding energy access while limiting global warming, what the world needs is an unlikely mix of urgency and patience, as I've been proposing for awhile.

We need to look at the evaporative / condensation process combined with ALL aspects of global weather as an ever changing global heat energy removal system and not just as a part of the hydrological cycle as usually set out in models and schematic diagrams.

By pioneering new renewable energy projects and establishing forward - thinking innovation centers, many countries in Africa are looking to renewable energy as a solution to meet their growing energy needs in a sustainable way, while working toward practical adaptation strategies to mitigate global warming impacts.

The need for immediate short - term action in order to make any significant impact in the longer term has become apparent, as has the need to apply the whole spectrum of policy instruments, since no single instrument will enable a large - scale transition in energy - supply systems on a global basis.

• Reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators • Conserving natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals • Saving energy by reusing materials that have already been processed • Preventing pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future generations

on the need to stabilize atmospheric GHG concentrations, even as global energy use continues to grow.

While the Climate Change pundits agree that energy efficiency and renewables are in the long term, «the most sustainable solutions both for security of supply and climate,» they argue that «global greenhouse gas emissions can not be reduced by at least 50 % by 2050, as they need to be, if we do not also use other options such as carbon capture and storage.»

The need to develop a new ecologically and economically sustainable energy system may take decades to complete, but will not be possible if scientific, technical, economic, and policy innovations — and regional as well as global collaborations — are not developed, shared, and implemented.

Air conditioning use emerges as one of the key drivers of global electricity - demand growth New IEA analysis shows urgent need to improve cooling efficiency as global energy demand for ACs to triple by 2050 15 May 2018

Of the many heat - trapping gases, CO2 puts us at the greatest risk of irreversible changes if it continues to accumulate unabated in the atmosphere — as it is likely to do if the global economy remains dependent on fossil fuels for its energy needs.

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.

Unlike all the other strategies outlined in the book, Criswell's lunar solar power is (at least according to him) scalable and affordable enough to not only meet all world energy needs as currently projected, but to allow for significant expansion in global world product without environmental harm.

«Global Warming: Data Centres to Consume Three Times as Much Energy in Next Decade, Experts Warn --»... this level of data centre growth is not sustainable beyond the next 10 to 15 years... We need to be more responsible about what we use the Internet for... it's driven by social media and mobile phones.

«As we take stock of progress towards the global goal on sustainable energy, this latest data clearly shows more action and political leadership is needed if we are to live up to our promise to leave no one behind,» said Rachel Kyte, Special Representative of the UN Secretary - General and CEO of Sustainable Energy foenergy, this latest data clearly shows more action and political leadership is needed if we are to live up to our promise to leave no one behind,» said Rachel Kyte, Special Representative of the UN Secretary - General and CEO of Sustainable Energy foEnergy for All.

There is a crying need for some place, preferably a place that is reasonably large, to demonstrate an energy & climate approach with the potential to go global, an approach designed to allow amplifying feedbacks that lead to rapid phase - out of fossil fuels as the price of fossil fuels becomes honest.

It emphasizes the issues of securing energy needs of poor and climate change mitigation emerging as conflicting challenges, and their significance in the Asia - Pacific region in the global context.

The global need for energy will continue to rise as a car, a fridge, a city break will become part of the lifestyle of many more people.

These operate as «meme» s. For example (where «- >» = «means»): Sustainability - > Climate Change - > Global Warming - > Anthropogenic Global Warming - > Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming - > CO2 - > Fossil Fuels - > Bad Energy I wonder: why it has always been CO2 that needs to be controlled?

As mentioned above, there have been numerous regional and global case studies demonstrating that renewable sources can meet all energy needs within a few decades.

Fewer new clean energy projects need to be financed as, because of the recession, there are fewer global emissions to offset.

This analytical document summarizes the potential role of nuclear power in climate change mitigation and sustainable development, as all low - carbon energy technologies, including nuclear power, are needed to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting the rise of global temperatures to below 2 °C.

Global management consulting company, Accenture, in a report this week on how the energy industry needs to transform to survive cited the «carbon bubble» — first coined by Carbon Tracker five years ago — as a real risk.

As India's importance and role in the global energy markets continues to grow, it needs to be strategic in its energy planning.

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Actually, the whole global warming problem could be summarized as being a global over-population problem — it is, after all, the exploding human population that is driving the growing energy needs, causing the negative environmental impacts, and in the process, also causing a shortage of fresh water.

But the obstacle is the real existing political economy of capitalism, and not the alleged technical problems cited by Cox, which are misleadingly used as ammunition against the feasibility of the imperative need to facilitate a rapid 100 % global renewable wind / solar energy transition.

The participants and speakers answered crucial questions about the role of coal and low emission technologies, such as high efficiency low emission (HELE) coal technologies and Carbon Capture Use and Storage (CCUS), alongside issues around financing, policy frameworks and meeting global energy needs.

The capital needed for a global shift to low - carbon energy systems can be mobilized from highly liquid but risk - averse institutional investors, such as pension funds, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds, which have assets of more than $ 80 trillion.

Our nation has an opportunity to embrace its role as a global energy powerhouse, sending a signal to the world that we are open for business and will stand by our friends in need.»

Since «there's an over two orders of magnitude (~ 120) difference between the amount of energy needed to add a litre to the ocean from melting ice (~ 334KJ)[and] thermal expansion of sea water (~ 40,000 KJ)», this means that sea - level rise, often offered as a «proxy» for «global warming», is actually not important.

The pressures and complexities of international energy markets and the imperatives of global issues such as climate change, means that countries need to understand and conform to international conventions in monitoring and reporting.

A new book, Climate Change: the Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, serves as an excellent, long - needed primer on the workings of earth's climate.

The point being that people need» Sustainable Energy» to survive and prosper, and thus solve poverty on a global scale, as is happening today in India and China.

Instead, as discussed below, there would need to be a Presidential directive to pursue a path (s) with the potential to contribute to decarbonization of global energy systems as rapidly as practical.