Sentences with phrase «of other fossil fuels»

In addition to acquiring a larger hypothetical share of the 2 °C carbon budget at the expense of the other fossil fuels (Variable 4), the lifespan of coal, oil and gas could be extended by CCS and net - negative emissions technologies.

Given the vastness of the world's marine methane hydrate deposits — more than twice the carbon reserves of all other fossil fuels combined — it's not surprising that government agencies and the petroleum and natural gas industries have long been interested in harvesting this new energy supply.

There's still a significant amount of other fossil fuel finance at the World Bank Group that will need to be addressed, including ongoing indirect support for coal through financial intermediaries and development policy finance, as well as other oil and gas finance.

In addition, the parent company Pepco Holdings, Inc. owns two coal - fired power plants and a number of other fossil fuel plants.

Not exact matches

The world added more solar power capacity than any other type of energy in 2017, outpacing all fossil fuels, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Other activities include: producing products that may be recycled at the end of their lifespan for material reuse; reducing energy consumption in operations; or even re-engineering distribution methods as a means of reducing long - distance travel during product delivery, ultimately reducing fossil fuel consumption (and the disease - causing air pollution that is its byproduct).

Further, Delkus wrote, Canada's federal government also has joined other members of the Group of Seven industrial nations to reduce reliance on fossil fuels by between 40 percent and 70 percent by 2050.

«People have been predicting the end of oil and other fossil fuels for decades.

Other senior financial figures have also warned of the risks to fossil fuel investments.

Christy Clark, and her «Liberals», like the BC Chamber of Commerce, have been, and continue to be shills for the fossil fuel industry, for which they are paid handsomely in political donations, and / or «membership fees», and whatever other benefits come to them.

«This case represents an unprecedented first step in the absolutely critical work of forcing coal and other fossil fuel companies to start being honest about the damage they are doing to our planet,» Schneiderman said in a prepared statement.

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.

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 behind the Dakota Access pipeline and many other damaging fossil fuel projects — Energy Transfer Partners — was the focus of nearly 20 actions spanning 10 U.S. states last week.

They give us a paycheck to help them milk the wealth from our land in the form of fossil fuel, minerals, raw materials and food; pay us to process it into pretty, Twinkie - packages of stuff that we «just can't live without», and then sell it back to us and others at a profit that puts them on easy street.

Cheap fossil fuel has turned us into the first people in human history who have essentially no need of each other — a kind of hyperindividualism has replaced community.

The less we use fossil fuels and other forms of polluting or dangerous energy the better.

Others take steps in this direction, but Soleri shows us the goal of an attractive city that can operate with very little use of fossil fuel.

For example, the growth of secondary industries and their use of fossil fuels has led to the imminent exhaustion of fossil fuels and the pollution of the atmosphere with excess carbon dioxide and other gases.

In addition to carbon dioxide there are other disruptive products from the use of fossil fuels such as the nitrogen oxides that have already been referred to.

«According to a World Bank estimate, the total exports of the Arab world other than fossil fuels amount to less than those of Finland, a country of five million inhabitants,» observed Bernard Lewis.

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

«New York State and other governments ought not to be investing in the exactly the kind of fossil fuels we're trying to discourage everyone from using,» Krueger said.

Environmentalists hoping the state will reject the Constitution argue any decision could also affect the others, at least two of which would be longer and lead to a more dramatic increase in the region's fossil - fuel consumption.

Are you willing to accept and own the alternative possibility of importing fracked natural gas and a greater reliance on other fossil fuels?

Republican members of Congress have accused Democratic state AG Eric Schneiderman and his counterparts in 16 other jurisdictions of chilling free speech over climate change through their legal and political campaign to curb fossil fuel burning.

The Clean Power Plan was part of an effort that included New York and other states to develop required cuts in emissions from fossil fuel burning power plants in order to combat climate change.

Tonatiuh, 15, of Colorado, has joined with 21 other teenage plaintiffs to sue Obama for failing to move the country away from dependency on fossil fuels.

The bill contains a «safety valve,» similar to successful divestment bills passed in other states, that would permit the Comptroller to cease divestment if he can convincingly demonstrate that the fund has lost significant value as a direct result of fossil fuel divestment.

Pruitt was confirmed as the EPA's new head by the Senate in February, 52 - 46, after fierce resistance from Senate Democrats who opposed the former Oklahoma attorney general because of his close ties with the fossil fuel industry, among other things.

«Does he recognise that while other countries have spent the last decade diversifying their supplies of energy, Britain has become even more dependent on imported fossil fuels - threatening our energy security, our economic competitiveness, and our climate change objectives?»

While this falls short of the goals of 350NYC and other organizations that call for full divestment from fossil fuel companies, it's a vital first step.

Cuomo's plan, released a couple of years ago, would cut the use of fossil fuels for electricity in the state in half by 2030, but does not apply those same goals to other carbon emmissions.

According to a study by The Brattle Group, funded by Exelon and other nuclear supporters, the three reactors in Oswego County and another in Wayne County eliminate nearly 16 million tons of carbon dioxide a year that would otherwise be emitted by fossil fuel power plants.

It would halt the building of any new infrastructure for natural gas or other fossil fuels.

According to previous studies, that amount — between 44 million and 146 million metric tons of CO2 — offsets a tiny fraction of the estimated 35.3 billion metric tons of CO2 generated by the burning of fossil fuels and other industrial activity in 2013.

Today more religious institutions around the world have pledged to some form of fossil fuel divestment than any other class of institution, said Harper.

The World Bank and other aid agencies struggles with the question of fossil fuels and energy poverty

Papua New Guinea has pledged to become carbon - neutral by 2050, Nauru and the Cook Islands have steep renewable energy targets, and most others have plans for reducing the import of petroleum and other fossil fuels.

Many communities in other parts of the country are also grappling with a transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.

A report in Nature stated that in some cases the escape of methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, «could effectively offset the environmental edge that natural gas is said to enjoy over other fossil fuels.»

With the price of fossil fuels and other commodities rising, a lot of that is down to economic self - interest.

In other words, to get away from fossil fuels requires not just expanding alternatives but also discouraging the use of coal, oil and natural gas.

Other environmentalists also criticize the idea of reducing emissions from one fossil fuel to release more of another via oil recovery.

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.

That is why President Obama has fought hard to advance the policies that will reduce our reliance on oil and other fossil fuels, increase our production of clean energy and create good - paying jobs that can never be outsourced.

It doesn't eliminate fossil fuels or shatter the price levels of other clean technologies.

And giving a helping hand to all these other crises as a result of all the fossil fuel burning needed to power our lives and lift billions out of poverty: anthropogenic climate change.

Some greenhouse gases occur naturally in the atmosphere, while others result from human activities such as burning of fossil fuels such as coal.