Sentences with phrase «global energy supply»

Some bullet points: The proportion of global energy supplied by coal is approaching that for oil.

It is clear that coal will continue to play a crucial role in global energy supply.

It's the main ingredient in natural gas, a fuel that is increasingly seen as a vital bridge toward a less - polluting global energy supply.

Currently, direct solar contributes only a fraction of one percent to total global energy supply.

Due to its nascent stage of development, they are unlikely to significantly contribute to global energy supply before 2020.

Overall that would require more than one tenth of the present annual global energy supply to balance the current rate of sea - level rise.

In this respect, developing economies are especially sensitive to fluctuations in global energy supply and demand.

Claude Mandil, executive director of the Paris - based International Energy Agency, presented a reassuring assessment today of the prospects for global energy supplies, but drew attention to serious concerns about energy security, investment, the environment and energy poverty.

The current debate will soon be rendered moot as global energy supplies enter a new phase of terminal decline and take the industrialized worlds grossly disproportionate levels of affluence down with them.

Krewitt et al, 2009: «A 10 - region global energy system model implemented in the MESAP - PlaNet environment (MESAP, 2008) is used for simulating global energy supply strategies.»

I have high hopes that we will be able to further improve the safety and reliability of nuclear power generation, thereby contributing to stable global energy supplies and reduced carbon dioxide emissions.»

Meanwhile, I expect the energy sector to stabilize including a drop in oil prices as shale gas, particularly from the U.S. and Australia, finds its way around world markets, loosening OPEC's grip on global energy supply.

Liquid fuels provide the largest share of global energy supplies today due to their broad - based availability, affordability and ease of transportation, distribution and storage to meet consumer needs.

Each year, ExxonMobil produces the Outlook for Energy — which provides educated estimates about global energy supply and demand and other economic trends — in order to help guide our internal business and investment decisions.

While sectoral economic transitions are largely outside the domain and impact of energy policy, and deindustrialization is hardly a global strategy for rapid decarbonization, it appears that history presents at least one replicable strategy to accelerate the pace of decarbonization: the directed decarbonization of global energy supplies via the state - led development and deployment of scalable zero - carbon energy technologies.

Regardless of the rate of growth of non-hydroelectric renewable energy, fossil fuels will remain major global energy suppliers through 2040, something the Energy Information Administration recently projected for the United States in its Annual Energy Outlook.

As a share of global energy supply, nuclear power has actually contracted since 1993, and not just because of high - profile setbacks like the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan.

«However, it will be decades before they take a major share of the global energy supply.»

The world's energy needs are continuing to grow and global energy supply is under stress.

This exhaustive yet accessible look at the global energy supply weighs the future of fossil fuels and carefully considers the alternatives.

Solar energy is expected to contribute significantly to the global energy supply over the next century, as society transitions away from the use of fossil fuels.

Potentially such research could lead to reducing the amount of land used for crop production, with important possible implications for global food productivity and security, as well as for the global energy supply.

On that front, no one has better articulated the blunt reality of more than doubling the global energy supply (even with efficiency improvements) while deeply cutting emissions of greenhouse gases than Martin Hoffert of New York University and various colleagues.

The result is a suite of 160 clean and neat «what if» scenarios, but very little (at least if the summary reflects what's coming in the full 900 - page report at the end of the month) on how the more aggressive scenarios for cleaning up the global energy supply might actually be achieved in the real world of competing and conflicting national, corporate and personal interests.

Although I believe it would work, I don't believe the second one is politically viable right now, while the first one — the strengthening of the West through a change in the balance of global energy supplies — will probably happen anyway, in the absence of any overt political decision.

Accounting for 25 percent of the global energy supply in 2006, coal was responsible for approximately 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, according to a report released this week by The WorldWatch Institute.

Renewable energy's share of the global energy supply has increased from 7 % by 2004 to over 8 % by 2009 and 2010 (excluding traditional biofuels such as fuelwood and charcoal).

Renewable energy continuing to increase market share IEA comprehensive data highlights the growth of renewable energy's share in global energy supply, with renewables now the second largest source of global electricity production.

Most estimates suggest that wind, solar, and geothermal will make up no more than 4 percent of the global energy supply by 2040, while the combined share of biomass and hydropower will remain about the same as today.

Under the IEA scenario, the share of the global energy supply provided by low - carbon sources would more than triple to 70 % in 2050.

Most projections have assumed that energetic inputs are either irrelevant for the demographic transition or that global energy supplies will be sufficient to fuel the economic growth that underlies the demographic transition [1], [3].

Bioenergy, mainly for traditional cooking and heating in developing countries, currently represents over 10 percent of global energy supply or ca. 50 Exajoules per year.

As we'll argue in Part 3 of this series, the most important thing we can do to greatly accelerate the global adoption of clean energy technologies and the decarbonization of the global energy supply is to accelerate the pace of energy innovation and make clean energy cheap.

Yet for those most concerned about climate change, there's an added imperative to tackling these non-CO2 climate forces: cutting emissions of soot and methane could be the fastest ways to reduce near - term warming and thus buy critical time to decarbonize the global energy supply system.

BP's Energy Outlook provides global energy supply and demand forecasts through 2035.

«We are truly witnessing a changing of the guard of global energy suppliers,» BP Chief Economist Spencer Dale said in a presentation.

An enduring aspect of the EIA's lack of attention to the urgency of the climate crisis is the lack of a projection of U.S. and / or global energy supply and demand that reflects the nation's stated commitments to address climate change.

We also wrote in the same article in 2002: «The ultimate agenda of pro-Kyoto advocates is to eliminate fossil fuels, but this would result in a catastrophic shortfall in global energy supply — the wasteful, inefficient energy solutions proposed by Kyoto advocates simply can not replace fossil fuels.»

Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all and investing in and increasing energy efficiency and the proportion renewable energy contributes to the global energy supply