Sentences with phrase «global fossil fuel»

By some estimates, a phase out of global fossil fuel consumption and production — particularly coal and oil — will need to be nearly complete within 50 years.

Today we are faced with the need to achieve rapid reductions in global fossil fuel emissions and to nearly phase out fossil fuel emissions by the middle of the century.

The figure below shows the change in global fossil fuel subsidies between 2009 and 2015.

Indeed it is hardly possible technically to rapidly reduce global fossil fuel use without killing millions of people.

Finally, talking about the harm caused by global fossil fuel pollution gets us out of a very limited conversation about national emissions.

This study looks at the impact of low - carbon transformations in power and road transport, sectors which together account for just 50 % of global fossil fuel demand and CO2 emissions approximately.

The new analysis finds global fossil fuel emissions grew by 0.7 % in 2014, then held steady in 2015.

«Donald Trump would be sending a strong signal to OPEC and the entire global fossil fuel industry that oil will be America's primary foreign policy priority.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates global fossil fuel consumption subsidies that measure what many developing countries spend to provide...

First, and most politically, we need to recognise that anthropogenic climate change is driven primarily by the economic logic of global fossil fuel extraction, and only to a lesser extent by the social practices and infrastructure that shape national emissions.

This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. (even more globally) took to the streets, local parks, bike trails, public monuments, and more to call for the U.S. and others to move beyond fossil fuels.The global fossil fuel infrastructure is a threat to our future everywhere, and a common target for our movement.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates global fossil fuel consumption subsidies that measure what many developing countries spend to provide below - market cost fuel to their citizens.

Ooops, annual global fossil fuel growth averaged 2.3 % since 1988 through 2012 (click image below to enlarge).

The mean increase of 224 Pg C over all models is equivalant to of recent global fossil fuel CO2 emissions.

the dramatic reduction in global fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions of the built environment by changing the way cities, communities, infrastructure, and buildings, are planned, designed, and constructed and;

... it is disingenuous to seek to pin the blame on government policies using inflated assessments of their impacts while ignoring the main driver for price increases — rising global fossil fuel prices.

«This will release an estimated 87 to 130 billion tonnes of carbon by 2100, which is greater than the amount of carbon that would be released by 13 years of global fossil fuel combustion.

Climate Restoration with Carbon Dioxide Removal / Published on Feb 14, 2018 Slashing global fossil fuel emissions is necessary, but no longer sufficient to restore our climate to stability.

To derive a global budget for just coal emissions, we applied coal's proportion of fuel combustion (40 %) to both the precautionary global fossil fuel budget (500GtCO2) to have an 80 % of limiting global warming to 2 °C, and the optimistic budget of 900GtCO2.

Of course, the best way of reducing global fossil fuel supply and demand is to have everybody on Earth doing it simultaneously.

As a means of comparison, in 2011 alone the International Energy Agency estimated that global fossil fuel direct subsidies were worth $ 523 billion, compared to $ 88 billion for renewables.

The figure represents the difference between the estimated $ 4.8 tn of investment needed to meet global fossil fuel demand between 2018 and 2025 under current climate policies and the $ 3.3 tn that would be required if the Paris agreement on reducing carbon emissions was fully implemented.

Unfortunately, The International Energy Agency estimates that current global fossil fuels subsidies are well over $ 500 billion.

Based on the assumed URR values, it is predicted that global fossil fuel production will peak before 2030.

However, the greenhouse gas emissions contained in present estimates of global fossil fuel reserves are around three times higher than this, and so the unabated use of all current fossil fuel reserves is incompatible with a warming limit of 2 °C.

Land - use changes over the past 250 years in Europe have been huge, yet, they only caused a relatively small temperature increase, equal to roughly 6 % of the warming produced by global fossil fuel burning, Naudts noted.

«The largest growth of CO2 emissions and energy use was in China, where provision of electricity expanded to more than 90 % of the population, lifting several hundred million people out of poverty.6 Coal use caused most of the emissions growth and coal is now the source of nearly half of global fossil fuel carbon emissions (Fig. 1a).

Global fossil fuel use data from British Petroleum Statistical Review of World Energy, June 2005 provided the following coal, oil and natural gas production for 2003 and 2004.

to achieve the dramatic reduction in global fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions of the built environment by changing the way cities, communities, infrastructure, and buildings, are operated, planned, designed, and constructed and;

With research from John Abraham indicating that from 2013 to 2015, global fossil fuel subsidies rose from a staggering 4.9 trillion dollars to an astounding 5.3 trillion dollars.

This was reflected in the IEA's 2012 World Energy Outlook, which concluded that only ONE THIRD of global fossil fuel reserves can be burnt between 2012 and 2050 to give a 50 % chance of achieving the 2 degree target.

It's not looking good for the global fossil fuel industry.

This comes just three days after reports revealed that the global fossil fuel divestment movement has doubled in the last year.

This 50/50/50 option would avoid the release of the equivalent of six years of global fossil fuel emissions.»