Sentences with phrase «of fossil fuels with»

A decade ago, Hansen defied muzzling efforts during the George W. Bush administration and irked defenders of fossil fuels with his warnings of calamitous warming.

Carbon payback time refers to the number of years it takes for the emissions saved by the replacement of fossil fuels with biofuel to offset the carbon emissions generated when the land is converted for growing the biofuel feedstock.

A series of scientific reports have linked the burning of fossil fuels with rising sea levels and more powerful typhoons, like those that have battered the island nation.

The NAMA will reduce GHG emissions through the replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energies and will provide the conditions for income generation and new business opportunities.

Large - scale replacement of fossil fuels with nukes would require broad programs.

Thanu Yakupitiyage, U.S. Communications Manager and coordination of the U.S. People's Delegation said, «The U.S. People's Delegation is at COP23 to share loud and clear the message that communities back home demand a fast and fair transition to a world free of fossil fuels with 100 % renewable energy for all.

While there are a range of options that can contribute to this goal, the most important and wide - ranging solution is the replacement of fossil fuels with zero - carbon renewable energy.

The grossest injustice of all would be to deny future generations a time share of fossil fuels with which to undo the horrific mess that previous generations have dumped them with and progress their own development in their own way.

Policies to increase the substitution of fossil fuels with bioenergy have also had a large positive impact on net emissions.

This sends a message that we will not profit by supporting an industry that promotes the production and burning of fossil fuels with no regard to the environmental consequences.

No matter what assumptions we enter, it is clear that we are far better off to get nuclear at least cost — as long as it will give us better total health effects than we have now., which clearly replacement of fossil fuels with nuclear will do.

However, I've never seen a single media article in any U.S. press outlet that covered these issues — the large - scale evidence for global warming (melting glaciers, warming poles, shrinking sea ice, ocean temperatures) to the local scale (more intense hurricanes, more intense precipitation, more frequent droughts and heat waves) while also discussing the real causes (fossil fuels and deforestation) and the real solutions (replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, limiting deforestation, and halting the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil.)

Actually, I am becoming optimistic about raising the price of fossil fuels with some sort of carbon tax.

In 1997, Tickell set out on the road with a biodiesel powered «Veggie Van» and a video camera and began filming what would eventually become known as FUEL, the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winning documentary film that investigates the possible replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy.

«Even the remote possibility of such an occurrence justifies concern,» added Robinson, one of the first scientists to link the burning of fossil fuels with global warming.

The fraction of fossil fuel without CCS is indicated by the horizontal lines to the right (diagonal) axis; the fraction of fossil fuel with CCS by diagonal lines from upper right to lower left on the vertical axis; the fraction of renewables and nuclear by the diagonal lines in the opposite direction to the left (diagonal) axis.

Not exact matches

I encourage Premier Notley, and all of Alberta, to follow this first step with continued bold action to transition away from fossil fuels.»

Fossil fuel usage, meanwhile, is expected to hit its ceiling in 2030 at 2.93 billion tons of oil equivalent with coal expected to continue as the top energy source for China by 2050.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

One school of thought says she should just plow ahead with her environmental agenda; history will be on her side in the end, since no one today (outside of maybe a few U.S. Republicans) doubts that the question of phasing out fossil fuels is not a matter of if but when.

Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the election of a president who is making fossil fuel - friendly Cabinet appointments and promises to bring back coal.

The final agreement involves several legally binding clauses, with trillions of dollars dedicated to reducing the dependence on fossil fuels within many countries, and to rolling out a huge expansion of renewable energy.

As much as his approach puts him at odds with conventional economic wisdom, Keller can also seem at odds with himself — a registered Republican who calls for more regulation of industry; a plastics maker who speaks out against U.S. reliance on fossil fuels; a nonunion employer whose wages and benefits are a model for the region.

They can't compete with the fossil fuels we released from underground — the source of the jet fuel I would have been responsible for.

The purpose of Tesla, SpaceX (Musk's space - exploration company), and SolarCity, the solar - panel firm that recently merged with Tesla, as a group of businesses is to accelerate humanity's departure from the fossil - fuel era.

We lock ourselves into bad carbon behavior every time we replace one retiring piece of infrastructure with another that runs on fossil fuels.

In the U.S., the cost of solar energy is now about on par with — and in some cases, cheaper than — energy from fossil fuels.

With economies of scale the cost of solar power has plunged much faster than many people expected — and some are actually arguing that solar will become cheaper than fossil fuels within the next few years.

BP estimated this year that fossil fuels will still represent 81 percent of energy in 2035, compared with 86 percent in 2012.

With shade grown coffee and a limited reliance on fossil fuels Dukale's farm (they use methane gas harvested from the livestock manure to power their homes) provides an example of what farming can be like.

As he stated flatly in an exclusive interview with Fortune: «The core mission of the company is selling clean energy at a lower cost than fossil fuels.

So Shepherd had to come up with a method for taking the salt out of sea water with boilers and kettles but without incurring the bloated carbon footprint of fossil fuels, which would betray the green ideals of his customer base.

His rivals play off it on the campaign trail, with the NDP's Thomas Mulcair bemoaning billions in subsidies to the fossil fuel sector and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau saying Harper «bet everything on the price of oil.»

That means making sure prices cover not only the direct costs of supplying energy but also the environmental externalities associated with production and use of fossil fuels — the waste water (which increases a variety of risks), and the broader side effects from vehicle use — congested roads, traffic deaths, and so on.

As the event opened, the panellists were presented with five global risk scenarios: uncontrolled city growth, lack of fresh water, extreme weather, continued fossil fuel lock - in and rising cases of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

``... to wean our economy off its overreliance on high - cost carbon fuels...» And how do you propose to do this with fossil fuels representing more than 80 % of the energy budget?

However, only 17 per cent of Canadians think Canada should stick with fossil fuels for the long term in light of Mr. Trump's energy agenda.

And so I encourage Premier Notley, and all of Alberta, to follow this first step with continued bold action to transition away from fossil fuels.»

«New pipelines to transition to clean energy» is Canada's own form of climate denial Watching Prime Minister Trudeau celebrate President Trump's executive order reviving the Keystone XL pipeline got me thinking: how is it that our «progressive» Canadian leader is siding with the climate - denying U.S. president on major fossil fuel expansion?

«We are working closely with the CleanTech Alliance Fund team to build U.S. infrastructure that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, expand the use of renewable energy and recycled materials, and improve the efficiency of our economy,» said Scott Brown, Managing Partner of the Fund.

The landmark report that found Alberta could reduce its reliance on fossil fuel power and replace that generation with a mix of mostly renewable energy sources within two decades.

The Tadawul platform for trading companies within Saudi Arabia has been relatively stable in recent years, but will Riyadh be as liberal with a company that represents basically all of the country's massive fossil fuel wealth?

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

Standing with advocacy groups working to stop the expansion of industrial fossil fuel projects.

The effect of the tariffs on the cost of imported solar panels makes it more difficult to compete with other sources of power like wind, or even makes fossil - fuel plants look attractive again, Mr. Freeman said.

The company is currently discussing with several states in the country to determine who it'll partner with to reduce dependence on fossil fuels in America, commit to inroads in green energy and attempt to innovate the state of the trucking industry.

Imported fossil fuels provide the bulk of power fuel, with 47 percent of the island's electricity coming from petroleum, 34 percent from natural gas, 17 percent from coal, and just 2 percent from renewable energy in 2016, according to the Energy Information Administration.

«Our project in the Caribbean will show renewables can compete directly with fossil fuels for island nations,» says Cam Lewis, CTO and founder of Hydrostor.

While these new developments are new and exiting, Ford is by and large still a fossil fuel car producer with a significant legacy in terms of platforms, factories, workers, pension obligations etc..