Sentences with phrase «meet global energy demand»

Faced with the need to rapidly reduce greenhouse emissions, many believe that energy efficiency and renewable energy sources can completely replace fossil fuels and meet global energy demand.

The current paper is similar to several papers that the authors previously published regarding the use of wind and solar resources to meet global energy demands (Delucchi and Jacobson, 2011; Jacobson and Delucchi, 2011).

The WCA welcomes the fact that BP also sees coal playing a crucial role in meeting global energy demand.

The chapter explains that improved energy efficiency is an essential part of the solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting global energy demand while also improving economic performance, increasing jobs, and enhancing environmental quality.

Increasing reliance on natural gas (methane) to meet global energy demands holds implications for atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

Not exact matches

Let's invest in this transition and make sure Canada is a global leader in clean energy technologies and services, so that we're exporting solutions to meet 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.

Rather, the world's largest oil company maintained that all sources of energy, including fossil fuels, will be necessary to meet the future global demand and that the best path toward managing greenhouse gas emissions is through technology advancement and adoption of energy efficiency programs.

Other studies have estimated that there was by 2015 enough renewable energy capacity to meet nearly 24 percent of global electricity demand.

Simulations by Cristina Archer at the University of Delaware in Newark and Ken Caldeira of Stanford University in California suggest that extracting enough energy from high - level winds to meet all our current energy demands would have no significant impact on global climate.

«Hydrogen (H2) produced from water splitting by an electrochemical process, called water electrolysis, has been considered to be a clean and sustainable energy resource to replace fossil fuels and meet the rising global energy demand, since water is both the sole starting material and byproduct when clean energy is produced by converting H2 back to water,» the researchers wrote.

LONDON — The world is far behind on delivering the low - carbon energy it needs, and unless urgent action is taken, calamitous climate change is certain, the International Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy denergy it needs, and unless urgent action is taken, calamitous climate change is certain, the International Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy dEnergy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy denergy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy denergy demand.

He stated flatly at a recent meeting on climate science and policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, that the primacy of energy demands in developing countries will prevent a carbon price from working to cut the carbon from global energy menus any time soon.

«Thanks to abundant supplies and insatiable demand for power from emerging markets, coal met nearly half of the rise in global energy demand during the first decade of the 21st Century,» said IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven.

He argued that «no credible projection» shows fossil fuels meeting less than 40 percent of global energy demand by mid-century.

IEA Wind TCP 2016 Annual Report Highlights from the IEA Wind TCP global network advancing wind energy development In 2016, 54 GW of new wind power capacity were installed worldwide and wind - generated electricity met 4 % of the world's electricity demand.

Although solar power eventually may face storage limitations, promising storage technologies are already emerging, and solar energy could increase multifold to meet more than 20 percent of global energy demand before running into serious storage constraints.

Internationally, the energy consumption of China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico will lead to a major global demand increase, which is likely to be met in large part from fossil fuels,» warning that the capacity to deal with these very substantial potential emissions «must urgently be developed.»

The drive to meet the world's ever - growing energy demand means that global power sector commitments — the projected lifetime carbon emissions of currently working power plants — have not declined in a single year since 1950.

If business as usual continues, IEA estimates $ 48 trillion of overall investment in energy would be needed to meet global demand between now and 2035.

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 takeaway from these reports is that all energy sources, including carbon - based fuels, are necessary to meet future global energy demand growth as society manages climate change risks.

However, in absolute terms both energy demand and the share being met by fossil fuel are growing faster since 1990 than the growth in new renewable energy sources, which is accelerating, but not yet fast enough to curb the increasing global CO2 trend.

In its 2018 Energy Outlook, BP shows how growing industrialisation and prosperity will drive an increase in global energy demand and how that demand will be met with the most diverse energy mix Energy Outlook, BP shows how growing industrialisation and prosperity will drive an increase in global energy demand and how that demand will be met with the most diverse energy mix energy demand and how that demand will be met with the most diverse energy mix energy mix the...

In addition, diverse sectors such as wild - capture fisheries, aquaculture, offshore energy, deep sea mining, marine transportation, and coastal tourism are expanding to meet growing global demand.

J&D envision that a combination of most of these strategies will be used to ensure that there is always enough energy production to meet local and global demands.

This is the global energy demand that the J&D plan must meet by 2030.

«Renewable sources of energy can be used to provide modern energy services to the poor, contribute to meeting the increasing global energy demand, reduce air pollution, mitigate climate change and delay the eventual fossil - fuel depletion,» he adds.

As a result of major transformations in the global energy system that take place over the next decades, renewables and natural gas are the big winners in the race to meet energy demand growth until 2040, according to the latest edition of the World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency's flagship publicenergy system that take place over the next decades, renewables and natural gas are the big winners in the race to meet energy demand growth until 2040, according to the latest edition of the World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency's flagship publicenergy demand growth until 2040, according to the latest edition of the World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency's flagship publicEnergy Outlook, the International Energy Agency's flagship publicEnergy Agency's flagship publication.

Here's why: Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, while simultaneously meeting the surging demand for energy in developing countries, requires the development and deployment of clean energy technologies on a massive scale.

The event that precipitated the project was the United Nations - sponsored meeting in Kyoto, Japan, which produced the Kyoto Protocol, demanding global rationing of energy, ostensibly to save the world from the non-crisis of warming supposedly caused by burning hydrocarbon fuels.

As we seek to increase production of oil and natural gas to meet growing global energy demand, we are committed to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions within our operations.

Several studies have shown that global energy demand, roughly 12.5 TW increasing to 17 TW in 2030, can be met with just 2.5 % of accessible wind and solar resources, using current technologies [refs below].

Canada is a global leader in the responsible and sustainable development of wind energy, producing enough clean wind power to meet 20 per cent of Canada's domestic electricity demand by 2025.

With 70 % of global energy demand currently met through the burning of carbon - based fuels, and demand predicted to double by 20351, the world faces a growing challenge: reducing climate change causing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions while not damaging a fragile global economy that is sustained by these abundant fossil fuels.

It indicates how rising prosperity is driving an increase in global energy demand and how that demand may be met over the coming decades through a diverse range of supplies including oil, natural gas, coal, and renewable energy.

In the same 2014 Ipsos survey, 66 percent agreed that «renewable sources of energy such as hydroelectricity, solar and wind can not on [their] own meet the rising global demand for energy.»

[The rise] of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere should remind us of our continuing success at expanding the global supply of energy to meet a growing demand.

Greater resilience to climate change impacts will be essential to the technical viability of the energy sector and its ability to cost - effectively meet the rising energy demands driven by global economic and population growth.

Referencing Architecture 2030's submission to the UNFCCC — the Roadmap to Zero Emissions: The Built Environment in a Global Transformation to Zero Emissions report — he demonstrated how a combination of reducing the built environment's demand for fossil fuel energy while increasing the world's supply of renewable energy sources will meet the Paris Agreement's long - term 1.5 °C goal.

The study shows that the proposed suite of policies can meet most of the growth in demand while reducing energy bills, creating jobs and reducing emissions of criteria and global warming pollutants.

A Breakthrough analysis found that rebound effects as high as 60 percent (the IEA's high - end scenario) will have significant implications for global climate mitigation efforts, requiring as much as 13 percent more clean energy supply by 2035 to meet higher global energy demand — equivalent to the total energy consumption of 19 Australias.

Given they are now the dominant driver of global oil demand, the issue can no longer be ignored if we are to meet our energy and environmental objectives» said Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA's Executive Director.

Our meeting has been held at a time of higher and volatile oil prices, continuing increases in global oil demand, localised supply problems for some forms of energy, concern about long term security of supply and increasing attention to the environmental impact from energy use.

The CO2 emissions from meeting this energy demand using mainly fossil fuels account for around 80 % of total global emissions (IEA, 2006b).

The 2010 World Energy Outlook, published on November 9, shows that in order to meet climate goals global oil demand must peak by 2018.

As Eban Goodstein, Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, so aptly shared immediately following the election, «Our work will not go away... Meeting the needs of billions of more people all aspiring to a better quality of life demands that we still rewire the world with clean energy, still reinvent the global food system, still rebuild smart and inclusive cities, and fundamentally, put sustainability and sufficiency at the heart of what we are doing on the planet.

Faced with a perceived conflict between expanding global energy access and rapidly reducing greenhouse emissions to prevent climate change, many environmental groups and donor institutions have come to rely on small - scale, decentralized, renewable energy technologies that can not meet the energy demands of rapidly growing emerging economies and people struggling to escape extreme poverty.

Despite the desire to move away from fossil fuels, oil and gas will remain dominant in the global energy mix — and the energy world will continue to be consumed by the need to find oil and gas to meet growing global demand.

The exact same actions that would reduce global warming would also preserve general air & water quality, reduce the levels of toxins in our food, ensure we have energy to meet our demands, reduce erosion, and maintain wild places for us to enjoy.