Sentences with phrase «including fossil fuel production»

It comes from a variety of sources, including fossil fuel production and even farming.

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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).

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.

For more information on G20 fossil fuel subsidies, including public finance, read Oil Change International and Overseas Development Institute's report: Empty Promises: G20 Subsidies to Oil, Gas, and Coal Production

Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons)-LSB-(Marland, et al., 2006)-- The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.].

Eliminate (100 %) all unsustainable tax incentives: Tax exemptions, subsidies, regulatory frameworks and other incentives are redirected towards sustainable, knowledge and employment - intensive sectors and local sustainable value chains and away from unsustainable activities, including industrial fisheries, forestry and agriculture, risky and otherwise unsustainable forms of energy production like fossil fuels, nuclear energy, unconventional energy production / franking and industrial bioenergy, extractive industries and chemical industry

Human activities that cause global warming include industrial production, burning fossil fuel, mining, cattle rearing or deforestation.

«Aerocene is an invitation to shape a post fossil - fuel epoch, in a cloudscape of interconnected spheres of practices that include open, participatory platforms of knowledge production and distribution; models; data; and sensitivity to the more - than - human world.

Most developed countries supported a text calling for a transition to a green economy that included phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, the use and production of renewable energies, and creating «green» jobs in this new economic model.

A report published in September by Climate Action Network Europe and ODI identified 87 subsidies and support measures and estimated the total support to fossil fuel production, including through fiscal support and public finance, was nearly EUR 36 billion a year between 2014 and 2016.

Reducing fossil fuel use has many additional benefits including reducing air pollution (and greenhouse gases) and decreasing the environmental impacts associated with fossil fuel production and use.

It does not release carbon that would otherwise stay stored underground, as occurs with fossil fuel use, but when starch, such as corn, is used for ethanol production much energy, including fossil - fuel energy, is consumed in the process of fertilizing, plowing, and harvesting.

I encourage people with access to climate simulation software who want to include more effects to try out the fossil - fuel production profiles in the spreadsheet at

These include making renewable energy carriers available on - site by using more electricity and district heating instead of fossil fuels for processes, using more environmentally - friendly materials for lower emissions in production (e.g. recycled steel, and solid wood), better thinking around transport of surplus masses (soil / rock / gravel), and improved waste management and recycling.

African American communities, including workers, are most likely to be exposed to the pollution from fossil fuel based energy production through coal plants, oil and gas refineries, as well as pollution from energy production through nuclear facilities and waste incinerators.

Included in life cycle carbon are substantial methane leaks from natural gas production and pipelines, the energy for drilling, mining, transport, refining, and disposal that are much more significant for fossil fuels and nuclear energy than for renewables.

The Environmental Defense Fund, which works extensively with energy companies to help ensure fossil - fuel production is done safely and with the fewest methane emissions possible, launched a new initiative last summer called Smart Power that promotes renewable energy above all fossil fuels, including natural gas.

President Donald Trump is promising major changes on climate and energy policy, including efforts to increase production from fossil fuel energy sources such as coal.

Global greenhouse gas emissions per region / Global CO2 emissions per region from fossil - fuel use and cement production The Report includes a new systematic assessment of how various economic sectors can reduce their climate - warming emissions, focusing on the potential eductions from the wide application of already - known and cost - effective technologies.

Going back an additional 150 years, this graph shows the annual growth rate (AGR, i.e. CAGR exclusively for one - year intervals, no need for compounding) in CO2 emissions from the same types of fossil fuel (including oil field and refinery flares and cement production), for every year from 1850 to 2008.

The red numbers and arrows show the additional fluxes caused by human activities averaged over 2000 - 2009, which include emissions due to the burning of fossil fuels, cement production and land use change (in total about 9 PgC / year).

Providing tens of billions of dollars every year to new fossil fuel projects, including the exploration and production of new fossil fuels, will catapult the world's global warming past the 2 degree Celsius ceiling of the Paris Agreement.

G7 countries must not misuse the Ukraine crisis to fast - track further fossil fuel development — including increased shale gas trade and development and to opening Europe's doors to tar sands, the dirtiest fossil fuel in commercial production.

There are various types of technologies that can play significant roles in mitigating climate change, including energy efficiency improvements throughout the energy system (especially at the end use side); solar, wind, nuclear fission and fusion and geothermal, biomass and clean fossil technologies, including carbon capture and storage; energy from waste; hydrogen production from non-fossil energy sources and fuel cells (Pacala and Socolow, 2004; IEA, 2006b).

Over 60 million tonnes of hydrogen are produced every year for a range of industrial purposes, including ammonia production, hydrocracking (breaking complex hydrocarbons into lighter fuels), and removing sulfur from fossil fuels.

Oil Change International issued a 2015 report that G20 governments provided more than $ 400 billion (360 billion euros) per year to fossil fuel production, including some of the world's most carbon - intensive and polluting ones.

Ways to reduce fossil fuel inputs to food systems include the use of farm machinery powered by renewable electricity or farm - produced biofuels; the localization of food systems to reduce transport (perhaps entailing vertical urban agriculture); the adoption of organic and ecological production practices to reduce the need for nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides; and an overall reduction in the consumption of highly processed foods.

... In short, the results indicate that the EU's domestic electricity production systems have preserved fossil fuel generation, and include several economic inefficiencies and inefficiencies in resource allocation.»

Of this, fossil fuel combustion and cement production contributed 375 ± 30 PgC and land use change (including deforestation, afforestation (planting new forest) and reforestation) contributed 180 ± 80 PgC.

A new way of globally working together could actually significantly increase the total energy obtained from fossil fuel burning by most rapidly shutting down the highest impacting activities per unit of final user obtained energy (including all impacts, not just the production of excess CO2).

The U.S. Energy Information Administration includes the following in U.S. primary energy production: coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production; natural gas plant liquids production; dry natural gas excluding supplemental gaseous fuels production; nuclear electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the nuclear plant heat rates); conventional hydroelectricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); geothermal electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and geothermal heat pump energy and geothermal direct use energy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedstock.

Chevron's filing also cites numerous statutes that refute the plaintiffs» claims that fossil fuels unreasonably interfere with public rights, including the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1992, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Mining and Minerals Policy Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and the Federal Lands Policy Management Act, all of which specifically call for the production of oil and natural gas within the United States:

In an effort to «pursue all forms of energy,» Mr. Trump has noted he will remove all restrictions on drilling for fossil fuels on American land, including lifting historical moratoriums on energy production on federally owned lands — like our nation's natural parks.

Cardayre argues that LS9's biofuels offer several benefits that make them more attractive as an alternative to fossil fuels than do ethanol - derived fuels, including higher cost - efficiency and lower energy consumption in production (65 % less energy).

The supply and demand model was used to obtain future predictions for individual and total fossil fuel productions for a number of different scenarios, including CASE 1, CASE 2 and CASE 3 and STATIC, DYNAMIC and INDEPENDENTLY DYNAMIC supply and demand interaction options.

The accumulated fossil fuel source (including the small contribution from cement production) is shown as positive value (blue).

Fossil fuels not only provide the energy required for our manufacturing processes that alternatives will be hard - pressed (if even possible) to replace (including those needed to create the alternatives) but have been used to underpin much of the world's food production (while not particularly wise over the long - term, the world's population depends upon fossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remainFossil fuels not only provide the energy required for our manufacturing processes that alternatives will be hard - pressed (if even possible) to replace (including those needed to create the alternatives) but have been used to underpin much of the world's food production (while not particularly wise over the long - term, the world's population depends upon fossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remainfossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remain fed).