Sentences with phrase «met by fossil fuels»

World energy consumption will increase 48 percent by 2040, and 78 percent of energy needs will be met by fossil fuels, according to the latest projections from the EIA.

In a summary report for renewable technologies (from may 2011), the IPCC reiterated that the demand for energy and associated services to meet social and economic development and improve human welfare and health is increasing and that overwhelmingly, this energy demand is met by fossil fuels.

The bill offers the CPUC and the CEC the option of setting «targets or requirements for energy technology that minimizes the percent of load met by fossil fuels during net - load peak energy demand and maximizes the use of low - carbon technologies.»

Further, 78 percent of global energy needs will be met by fossil fuels.

If we continue to allow nuclear plants to close, then we will cede nuclear energy globally to Russia and China and allow future energy demand to be met by fossil fuels.

That will have to be met by fossil fuels, which should drive the price up based on supply and demand factors.

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.

Not exact matches

Organizations like the Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy (SHARE) have kept the pressure on state officials — sending a letter to Cuomo signed by two dozen Albany County legislators opposed to the project's fossil fuel - powered status and holding multiple public meetings with the New York Power Authority to express their grievances.

But the new analysis, as well as a report released last week by the United Nations, concludes that the difficulty of meeting that goal is growing along with the world's fossil fuel output.

The 1997 Kyoto Conference — a world meeting on fossil - fuel use — produced an agreement by a handful of highly industrialized countries to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2010.

«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.

The authors say fossil - fuel emissions should peak by 2020 at the latest and fall to around zero by 2050 to meet the UN's Paris Agreement's climate goal of limiting the global temperature rise to «well below 2 °C» from preindustrial times.

A 2017 study in the American Meteorology Society's Journal of Climate found that if countries meet the overall goal of keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius via the «maximum technically feasible» cuts in fossil fuel use, the Arctic could see.84 degrees Celsius in warming by the middle of the century as sulfate decreases.

The report also suggested that to have a reasonable chance of meeting the 2 °C target, CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels, especially coal, should fall dramatically by the 2050s and virtually cease by the end of the century.

A clean, renewable alternative to fossil - fuel based natural gas, Bullfrog's green natural gas is produced in Canada from biogas facilities that have met strict environmental criteria as defined by ICF International.

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

The vast majority of the India «s energy needs are met by emission - intensive fossil fuels, mainly coal and oil.

[1] «Indirect land use change» (ILUC) means that many biofuels harm the climate even more than the fossil fuels they replace — due to land use changes caused by the expansion of agriculture to meet the additional demand for crop - based biofuels.

However, instead of recognizing the effort by tech companies to produce enough power to meet the demand of their data facilities, Chesser cites the fossil fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research to lambast these companies for «misleading claims.»

As a matter of substance, you can not meet the climate challenge by focusing only on developed countries when developing countries already account for around 55 % of global emissions from fossil fuels and will account for 65 % by 2030.

The new goal, put forth at a tripartite summit meeting this week by the leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico, might well mark a turning point away from the continent's outmoded obsession with fossil - fuel independence, and toward a shared investment in a clean energy revolution.

Government & Energy Innovation Innovation in the energy sector is necessary to maintain economic competitiveness, meet ever - increasing energy demands, and limit the changes to our atmosphere caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

Thus, absent fossil fuels, global cropland would have to increase by 150 percent to meet current food demand, but conversion of habitat to cropland is already the greatest threat to biodiversity.

Costa Constantinides, NYC Council Member and Chair of the Council's Environmental Protection Committee, said, «If we are going to have any real chance at meeting our 80 by 50 goal, it's vital that we move away from fossil fuel extraction.

Hydrogen burns in air, so one can easily imagine using hydrogen instead of fossil fuels to supply energy for our transportation needs that can not be met by electric trolleys and trains.

But, the G7 nations met in May 2016, agreeing to end most «inefficient» fossil fuel subsidies by 2025.

Climate change advocates will see it as a way to curb the consumption of fossil fuels, in part by narrowing the competitive gap with renewables; their opponents will see such a tax as meeting a long - held conservative view that it is more growth - friendly to tax consumption rather than the proceeds of work and risk - taking, to be paired with environmentalists» agreement to substitute the tax for the EPA's regulations.

Even if they meet those targets, any actual climate benefit could be more than wiped out by the climate impacts of the fossil fuels exported from the NEW extraction projects they continue to approve in the meantime.

The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel - fired power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 — still a far cry from what is needed to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Accord to keep global warming at or below 2 degrees Celsius.

This shows that intermittencies of wind can be met by supplemental fossil fuel supplies.

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.

Up to this point, California has met this challenge by backing up clean resources with dirty fossil fuels.

The Net Load Peak Energy Bill would require the CPUC and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to work with CAISO to set up, by the end of 2019, «policies or procedures» through which LSEs meet «net peak load» energy and reliability needs «while minimizing the use of fossil fuels and utilizing low - carbon technologies and electrical grid management strategies.»

Canada is doing its part to meet the 2011 prediction of Bloomberg New Energy Finance in the headline «Onshore Wind Energy to Reach Parity with Fossil - Fuel Electricity by 2016.»

The analysis finds that expanding fossil fuel reserves does even more damage than putting the global climate in danger; exploration financing by the World Bank risks locking developing countries into loan commitments for resources that will likely become stranded assets if policies are implemented to meet agreed climate goals.

Such restoration alone would go some way to meeting targets imposed by the government to reduce the threat of catastrophic global climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions that result from changes of land use and the combustion of fossil fuels.

A quarter of the world's oil refineries risk closure by 2035 if governments meet targets to limit fossil fuel burning in the fight against global warming, a report released on Thursday said.

Europe continues to be taken hostage by destructive fossil fuels and the companies who profit from them, according to Friends of the Earth groups protesting at an informal meeting of European energy ministers in Amsterdam today.

We encourage you to keep calling on the government to take ambitious measures that keeps fossil fuels reserves in the ground to meet our Paris commitment, that transition our economy to 100 % by 2050, and is just for Indigenous Peoples and workers.

Perhaps believing his own propaganda, he thought that if he could get the confidential packet of documents distributed at the Heartland board meeting, he could prove that Heartland had a nefarious agenda funded by the fossil fuel industry.

The AIA +2030 Online Series helps design professionals create buildings that meet the energy efficiency targets of the 2030 Challenge, offering strategies to reach a minimum of a 70 % reduction in building energy consumption and fossil fuel greenhouse gas emissions today, increasing to carbon neutral for new building designs by 2030.

Coordinated by CERES, the investors sent letters to the fossil fuel companies last month, requesting detailed responses before their annual shareholder meetings in early 2014.

PFIs must cease by 2020 direct, indirect, ancillary infrastructure and policy support for upstream and downstream fossil fuels, GHG - intensive projects, nuclear, large bioenergy and hydropower when more cost - effective and less damaging alternatives exist; All PFI investments must meet strict environmental and social development criteria and be assessed through a pro-poor, inclusive, climate - resilient and gender - responsive lens;

If we relied solely on renewables and we found that they by themselves could not supply enough power to meet our «needs» and we fell back onto (or were never weaned off) the fossil fuel economy then we would have irreversible global climate change.

Lest you have doubts that renewable energy won't be able to take over from fossil fuels: A new report from NRDC looks at future energy usage in Michigan and comes to the conclusion that through a combination of renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements, the state can easily meet future power needs: Energy Efficiency Could Save State $ 3 Billion by 2030 The report, A Green Energy Alternative for Michigan, was written by Synapse Energy Economic for NRDC and shows that simply making energy efficiency improvements to offset fossil fuel usage the state could save $ 3 billion over the next 20 years.

This demand is likely to be met by increasing use of fossil fuels along with other sources, such as nuclear and renewable.»

A spokeswoman for campaigners Divest London said the motion would force the mayor to reveal his position on fossil fuels and reinforce his intention to meet his commitment to reduce London's carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2025.

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.

A simple method to determine if fossil fuel producers are on track to meet global emission reduction targets has been developed by University of Queensland researchers.

The International Energy Agency's (IEA) 2002 World Energy Outlook Reference Case - based on present policies - presents a frightening view of the next thirty years.1 The Reference Case says world energy demand will grow by two - thirds, with fossil fuels meeting 90 percent of the increase.