Sentences with phrase «in fossil fuel production»

From 1950 — 1980, the growth in fossil fuel production and all energy production exceeded world population growth (table 2).

Many other studies point to an increase in fossil fuel production, especially oil and gas production in the United States, as another key factor behind the recent increase in methane production.

Growth in total energy production has been propelled by growth in fossil fuel production.

In order to estimate the revenues of the industries that were involved in fossil fuel production, transportation, refining, and electricity generation, I used the Fortune Global 500 list of the largest publicly - traded companies in 2008 (published in 2009).

Civil society is not alone in making this point, just last week, 100 economists from around the world signed the Declaration on Climate Finance, calling for an immediate end to investment in fossil fuel production and infrastructure.

It could be relevant in some fossil fuel production sectors that might remain as well, but only on limited scale.

Moreover, the «carbon bubble» theory falsely assumes that reductions in carbon - dioxide emissions necessarily require reductions in fossil fuel production.

Second, your logic assumes that people who may be investing in fossil fuel production are on top of the 2 ° figure and the carbon budget.

Not exact matches

Indeed, a recent research report from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) found that the majority of methane released in the air over the last 10 years likely came from agricultural sources (cow burps) as opposed to fossil fuel production.

That logic is another reason why OPEC countries have less of an incentive to cut back production: renewable energy sources is starting to give fossil fuels some serious competition, and oil - exporting countries have an interest in keeping oil a cheap alternative.

Fossil fuel - based energy production needs to stop getting subsidized, and we need massive investment in and adoption of renewable energy sources.

Fossil fuel prices are squeezing budgets in several states that rely heavily on severance taxes, such as Alaska, North Dakota, Wyoming and Oklahoma — even as OPEC nations consider cutting production to boost prices.

But fracking opponents claim that, though natural gas is considered the greenest of fossil fuels, shale extraction is significantly more carbon - intensive than conventional production and may result in the release of large quantities of methane, itself a greenhouse gas.

His main point is the astounding decline in government revenues from fossil fuel production due to criminally low royalties and corporate taxation.

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.

The ideal algal strain flourishes in the simplest of production environments at the lowest possible cost without a necessary dependence on fossil fuels to maintain high yields — an affordable approach that can be practiced most anywhere.

«The quantities of methane produced by anaerobic digestion can diminish or even completely replace the use of fossil fuels in the production process,» says Mike Bambridge.

Closed anaerobic reactors generate large quantities of methane (CH4) from the organic materials in the wastewater that can diminish or even completely replace the use of fossil fuels in the production process.

Particularly daunting is the production or acquisition of large volumes of organic compost for fertilizer; synthetic fertilizers are not allowed due to high fossil fuel use in their manufacture and their limited use in promoting healthy soil.

Energy consumption in agriculture includes the direct consumption of fossil energy (e.g. fuel and oil), as well as indirect energy consumption (e.g. from the production of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides).

The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia

The anaerobic digestion technologies — recently applied to a major SE Asian pineapple producer — extract biogas from crop processing waste water streams to simultaneously raise water quality while generating methane to replace fossil fuels used in production processes.

Moving forward with a campaign pledge to unravel former President Obama's sweeping plan to curb global warming, Trump today is set to sign an executive order that will suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half - dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of fossil fuels.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

Jennifer Metzger, co-founder of Rosendale - based Citizens for Local Power (CLP), says it has vociferously opposed the NCZ not only because it raises rates but also because it incentivizes fossil fuel production, in direct opposition to the NYSERDA programs.

Solar is already competitive with conventional energy in many parts of Germany and will keep getting cheaper, while conventional fossil fuels are more likely to increase in production costs, Channell said.

For more than 50 years fossil fuels and fertilizers have been the key ingredients in much greater global food production and distribution.

A leading ecologist with decades of experience in the effects of disturbance on ecosystems, Woodwell shows that diverse industrial activities — from nuclear power production to fossil - fuel burning to contemporary agricultural practices — are affecting the chemical processes that underpin all life on Earth.

Thanks to growing population and dwindling supplies, fossil fuel production per capita may peak by mid-century — ending the two centuries of unlimited growth in energy production that is at the root of modern civilization, consultant Richard Nehring writes in the journal.

The data don't themselves prove what led to such a dramatic decrease in emissions, but Schaefer's team had a guess: the collapse of fossil fuel production in the Soviet Union following its 1991 breakup.

«Biofuel production also shows promise for directly offsetting some reliance on fossil fuels,» says Stephen Ogle, an ecosystem research scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

British and Finnish scientists have found a way of generating renewable propane using a bacterium widely found in the human intestine and say the finding is a step to commercial production of a fuel that could one day be an alternative to fossil fuel reserves.

Wind power is one of the key sources of renewable energy expected to play an important role in helping to cut emissions and wean society from its dependence on fossil fuels, which means wind - power companies must be prepared to quickly fix mechanical problems that threaten to slow down renewable energy production.

Commercial realization of this potential will require advances in strategies to reduce non-renewable inputs, such as inorganic fertilizers and fossil fuels, and monetary costs of large - scale production of marine microalgae, she says.

The editors respond: We thought the numbers in Dukes's study were fascinating for what they reveal about the amount of raw biomass needed to create a gallon of gasoline; however, due to space constraints, we could not go into greater detail about fossil - fuel production and energy usage.

The payoff, he adds, is that 10 - hour storage eliminates the need for a fossil fuel power plant to back up electricity production on cloudy days and at peak usage hours in the evening.

In addition, production of plastics is a major user of fossil fuels.

Food production accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions when one tallies those from fossil fuels used in growing, preparing and transporting food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer use.

Fracking is part of a nationwide boom in the production of natural gas, which is a ready replacement for home heating oil and could lessen dependence on foreign fossil fuels if vast underground shales could be hydraulically fractured.

A boom in domestic natural gas production, historically low prices, and increased scrutiny over fossil fuels» carbon emissions.

We urge Congress to set a cap on fossil - fuel production before Copenhagen, phase in a price on carbon at its source and send the proceeds back to the taxpayer.

From a climate perspective, there is some good news about the likely decline in the growth of fossil fuel production discussed by others at the panel, Tans said.

In response to another question from Sanders, Zinke said he supported extracting fossil fuel from public lands along with supporting wind and solar power, calling for an «all - of - the - above» approach to energy production.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production grew 2.3 per cent to a record high of 36.1 billion tonnes CO2 in 2013.

Searchinger's outlook is bleaker: He estimates that the rise in corn - based ethanol production in the United States would increase greenhouse gases, relative to what our current, fossil - fuel - based economy produces, for 167 years.

And that's just in the United States: as other countries increase energy production by incinerating fossil fuels, acid rain is on the rise.

By piecing together the annual production of every major fossil fuel company since the Industrial Revolution, geographer Richard Heede has shown that nearly two - thirds of the major industrial greenhouse gas emissions have originated in just 90 companies around the world, which either emitted the carbon themselves or supplied carbon ultimately released by consumers and industry.

Global carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production grew 2.3 per cent in 2013.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

Identifying where fossil fuel reductions can be made — # 1 is in agricultural production.