Sentences with phrase «oil and coal alone»

Not exact matches

That's not the only methodological issue: their study also undercounts subsidies to oil, gas, and coal production, relying on an estimate of $ 23 billion in production subsidies instead of the more than $ 70 billion we've identified in G20 countries alone.

If we should have luck here in Germany, and the EEG does not fail, it would mean that in 20 years we'd have a grid mostly powered by renewable energy, paid by the private households alone, that will produce cheap electricity for the industry at a time when oil, gas and coal will be much more expansive than today.

And yet, declaring polar bears endangered would have great effects that would help push the country off our coal and oil addiction, probably saving thousands of human lives per year in the US aloAnd yet, declaring polar bears endangered would have great effects that would help push the country off our coal and oil addiction, probably saving thousands of human lives per year in the US aloand oil addiction, probably saving thousands of human lives per year in the US alone.

In 2014 alone, the fossil fuel energy produced from public lands included 706 million barrels of oil, 3.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 421 million tons of coal, contributing billions of tons worth of carbon pollution.

In 2012 alone, 40 million tons of coal, 12 billion cubic metres of gas and 8 million litres of oil, diesel and gas were saved.

In 2015 alone, Australia's four biggest banks — Westpac, ANZ, NAB, and the Commonwealth Bank — pumped US$ 5.5 billion into the fossil fuel sector, supporting coal, oil and liquefied natural gas in Australia and overseas.

With literally tens of billions of dollars of annual profits at stake — for example, ExxonMobil alone reported $ 22.6 billion in profits in the first half of 2008 — the coal and oil industries are desperately spending hundreds of millions of dollars to shape and mobilize public and elite opinion.

The energy efficiency sector alone employs more than two million people — double the number of people directly employed in the oil, coal, and gas industries in 2016, according to the Department of Energy.

In this 112th Congress alone, oil, gas and coal interests gave over $ 20 million of this «dirty energy money» to our Senators and Representatives, to influence their votes around industry - friendly measures from dismantling the power of regulatory bodies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to approving the Keystone pipeline, to opening up the outer - continental shelf to drilling.

To date, we have added about 1.5 trillion tons of CO2 from fossil fuel use (this is my recollection from papers by Meinshausen and others), and so by my very rough calculations, coal alone would permit us to contribute much more to atmospheric CO2 than we have already done, with a warming effect substantially greater than what we have already observed — and that is without counting oil and gas reserves.

* The reserves in currently operating oil and gas fields alone, even with no coal, would take the world beyond 1.5 °C.

The coal and oil companies have spent in the United States alone a half a billion dollars in the first eight months of this year promoting a lie that there is such a thing as «clean coal.»

This matters because there is a huge amount of carbon currently locked up in permafrost, and the methane hydrates alone contain more carbon than all of Earth's proven reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas combined.