«This agreement further expands our strategic relationship, and we look forward to working even more closely with Yingli to deliver superior - quality solar panels that will continue to accelerate the adoption of solar energy to meet
the growing global demand for energy,» David B. Miller, president, DuPont Electronics and Communications, said in a statement.
McKibben's enemy, of course, is the outsize influence on policy exerted by the array of companies extracting fossil fuels from the Earth to satisfy
the growing global demand for energy.
It includes not only traditional energy companies, but also firms that are «energy - intensive» end users of energy who have the potential to benefit from the abundance of U.S. supply as well as
growing global demand for energy.
And at a time of
growing global demand for energy, strengthened collaboration across the border can position North America as a leading provider of advanced energy, related technologies and services.
Not exact matches
In plain terms, we are choosing to penalize our own
energy industry with severe financial measures, when other jurisdictions like the U.S. are slashing taxes and red tape, rejecting carbon taxes, and calling
for expanded fossil fuel production due to
growing global demand.
To meet the
demands of
growing consumption, a larger share of the
global surface is being used
for agriculture, livestock, forestry,
energy plantations and infrastructure.
Nevertheless, the
demand side
grows fastly with booming population growth and urbanization, while the supply side is more endangered with increasing water scarcity due to
global change, limited phosphorus reserves and vast amounts of
energy required
for nitrogen production.
The Principal Investigator of the study, Dr Felix Eigenbrod, Associate Professor (Spatial Ecology) at the University of Southampton's Centre
for Biological Sciences, says: «The
growing geographic disconnect between
energy demand, the extraction and processing of resources, and the environmental impacts associated with
energy production activities makes it crucial to factor
global trade into sustainability assessments.
Researchers and some
energy experts say that this form of cooling — known as solar thermal — could help to slake the
growing global demand for fuel to run
energy - hungry air conditioning.
There is good news on the employment front
for engineers in the United States: salaries
for engineers are rising amid the
growing global demand for technology services across industry sectors, particularly healthcare and
energy.
The
growing global demand for food and bio-
energy, and the recent rises in food prices, slow down progress in reducing poverty, but increase
demand for water from the agriculture and
energy sectors.
Schools, like everyone else, face increased bills as
global demand for energy continues to
grow.
Global demand for energy is
growing rapidly and must continue to
grow to provide the needs of developing economies.
Natural gas
grows to account
for a quarter of
global energy demand in the New Policies Scenario by 2040, becoming the second - largest fuel in the
global mix after oil.
From a
global perspective, we are faced with daunting challenges as documented in World Resources, 1996 - 97: the accelerating confluence of population expansion, increased
demand for energy, food, clean drinking water, adequate housing, the destructive environmental effects of pollution from fossil fuels and nuclear waste, plus the
growing divergence between the haves and have - nots and the potential
for ensuing conflicts.
These points are especially critical considering that
for at least the next several decades, by all reasonable estimates,
global energy demand will continue to
grow.
This technical document stresses that an important challenge
for Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) is to increase agriculture production to meet
growing global demand for food, fiber and
energy without proportionally increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The thrust of the roadmap paper puts the onus squarely on fossil fuel management to respond properly to how
growing climate regulation, advances in cleaner technology, cheaper renewables, and greater
energy efficiency hit
demand and the implications those
global trends have
for commodity prices.
The
growing sense of
global urgency over our twin crisis — climate change and
energy security — is now driving businesses to become green, consumers to
demand green and policy makers to drive policies to accelerate the market adoption of green products.The most notorious subsidy is the 51 - cent gas credit
for ethanol.»
The company expects
energy demand to
grow at an average of about 1 % annually over the next three decades — faster than population but much slower than the
global economy — with increasing efficiency and a gradual shift toward lower - emission
energy sources: Gas increases faster than oil and by more BTUs in total, while coal
grows for a while longer but then shrinks back to current levels.
Global demand for coal is expected to
grow to 8.9 billion tons by 2016 from 7.9 billion tons this year, with the bulk of new
demand — about 700 million tons — coming from China, according to a Peabody
Energy study.
It remains one of the greatest ironies of the environmental movement that those most concerned with
global warming, like Ms. Collard, are opposed to nuclear
energy, the only non-greenhouse gas - emitting power source that can effectively replace fossil fuels while satisfying Canada's
growing demand for energy.
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Even allowing
for improved
energy efficiency, if
global energy demand continues to
grow along the anticipated trajectory, by 2030 the investment over this period in
energy - carrier and - conversion systems will be over 20 trillion (1012) US$, being around 10 % of world total investment or 1 % of cumulative
global GDP (IEA, 2006b).
As
demand for energy grows, the
global investment community is looking
for new opportunities
for capital growth on the development of new generation.
Fears that the rising
demand for biofuels is contributing to a
global surge in food prices are founded, but such pitfalls can be avoided if top
energy consumers invest in efficient crops
grown in tropical nations, promote research and encourage the biofuel trade, said Corrado Clini, chairman of the GBEP.
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?
Issues examined include: whether we really are facing a «Green»
energy future or not; the rise of electric vehicles; the long term relevance to law firms of
growing demand for natural resources — including water resources; and how a
global economy will
demand a far greater
global transport infrastructure.
Global immigration and foreign capital flows will influence the
demand for and value of housing in the U.S., and environmental concerns such as a
growing scarcity of
energy and raw materials relative to a burgeoning population could affect urban and suburban design and housing patterns.