Sentences with phrase «on global energy demand»

The Assessed 2oC Scenarios produce a variety of views on the potential impacts on global energy demand in total and by specific types of energy, with a range of possible growth rates for each type of energy (above chart).

Providing energy for all would have a minimal impact on global energy demand, with an increase of 0.2 % (37 million tonnes of oil equivalent) relative to our base case.

We know population is going up (UN mid-level projection is about 9.5 billion by 2050 and 10.5 by 2100), and the poor want to get rich while the rich don't want to get poor, so the only way to work on global energy demand is the last term which is really energy efficiency.

Not exact matches

The energy sector dipped slightly as concerns about global energy demand sent the July crude contract down 50 cents to US$ 93.65 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

In a closely - watched monthly report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Tuesday, the Paris - based organization said a rise in global oil production — led by the U.S. — was on track to outpace growth in demand this year.

Global banking giant J.P. Morgan has forecast an average price of $ 70 a barrel in 2018 on the back of global economic growth boosting the demand for eGlobal banking giant J.P. Morgan has forecast an average price of $ 70 a barrel in 2018 on the back of global economic growth boosting the demand for eglobal economic growth boosting the demand for energy.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

That lower baseline energy demand as well as marginal increases in supplies has led to lower global oil and gas prices and more competitive pressure on the uranium space.

The global oil stocks surplus is close to evaporating, OPEC said on Thursday, citing healthy energy demand and its own supply cuts while revising up its forecast for production from Continue Reading

One such trend, with incredible potential for Canada, is the rapid growth of Asia's emerging economies and their impact on global demand for energy and natural resources.

Looking at global oil demand, you can see it's been unrelenting through recessions, through bull markets, bear markets, and it looks like it's going to continue to go up at a fairly steady level based on latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy 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.

Global energy demand from developed nations has an adverse impact on freshwater resources in less developed nations according to a new study.

«Global energy demand has adverse effects on freshwater resources of less developed nations.»

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.

There is good news on the employment front for engineers in the United States: salaries for engineers are rising amid the growing global demand for technology services across industry sectors, particularly healthcare and energy.

«As global energy demand grows over this century, there is an urgent need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and imported oil and curtail greenhouse gas emissions,» said Secretary of Energy Steveenergy demand grows over this century, there is an urgent need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and imported oil and curtail greenhouse gas emissions,» said Secretary of Energy SteveEnergy Steven Chu.

Feed - in tariffs on fossil energy imports to the United States would surely end up reducing demand for fossil fuels as more and more renewable capacity became available — which is exactly what you would want to see happen if you are serious about slowing the rate of global warming.

On a global scale, we have greatly increased energy demand from developing countries.

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.

Almost all the experts I've talked to in 20 years of exploring the entwined climate and energy challenges agree that satisfying global energy demand while limiting human influence on climate will require revolutionary advances in both policy and technology.

One issue, of course, is that while the focus is on developing or refining energy technologies with limited or no emissions of greenhouse gases, the discussion is taking place in a world where real - time pressures are driving the expansion of conventional fossil fuel menus to keep up with ballooning global energy demand.

McKibben's enemy, of course, is the outsize influence on policy exerted by the array of companies extracting fossil fuels from the Earth to satisfy the growing global demand for energy.

Since my 2006 front - page Times article on declining energy research in an era of global warming and rising energy demand, I've run versions of the graph below.

The combined strength of SkyPower's wealth of global experience in developing utility - scale solar parks and Grupo Uribe's long - standing credible presence in the Mexican energy sector enables the joint venture to rapidly deploy its capital and resources in order to immediately execute on large - scale solar development opportunities to align with Mexico's demand for solar.

The North Atlantic only represents a 1/10 to 1/8 of global hurricane energy output on average but deservedly so demands disproportionate media attention due to the devastating societal impacts of recent major hurricane landfalls.

The model uses information on water demand and availability provided by existing global integrated assessment models at IIASA, including the Community Water Model (CWATM); the Model for Energy Supply Strategy Alternatives and their General Environmental Impacts (MESSAGE); and the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM), and provides information on water resources development, allocation and cost to those mglobal integrated assessment models at IIASA, including the Community Water Model (CWATM); the Model for Energy Supply Strategy Alternatives and their General Environmental Impacts (MESSAGE); and the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM), and provides information on water resources development, allocation and cost to those mGlobal Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM), and provides information on water resources development, allocation and cost to those models.

The Harmony goal, put forward on behalf of the nuclear industry by World Nuclear Association, is a vision of a future energy system where nuclear energy supplies 25 % of global electricity demand by 2050 as part of a low - carbon generation mix, which would require 1000 GW of new nuclear build.

The chairman and another member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, in an apparent effort to discredit the findings reported by three distinguished scientists from respected universities, demanded that the scientists send Congress all of the scientific data they have gathered in their entire careers, even data on studies unrelated to their publications on global warming.

The thrust of the roadmap paper puts the onus squarely on fossil fuel management to respond properly to how growing climate regulation, advances in cleaner technology, cheaper renewables, and greater energy efficiency hit demand and the implications those global trends have for commodity prices.

Businesses are also moving forward: Auto company General Motors announced it will transition to producing only electric vehicles; 100 of the world's most influential businesses are creating a huge demand for renewable energy; and ten of the world's largest companies have launched a global campaign to expand corporate electric vehicle use and charging infrastructure (a big deal when you consider that about half of the cars on the road belong to companies).

With 1000 + articles worldwide, the report made a noteworthy contribution to a global public discussion on peak fossil fuel demand, including an endorsement from Nick Butler at the FT that «it deserves to be read by everyone working in the energy sector, by policy makers and perhaps most urgently by investors».

This study completes the research series on oil and coal started in 2014 and takes a look at three global gas markets — Europe, North America and LNG — in the context of the energy transition, examining where there may be unneeded capacity and capital expenditure in a low demand scenario.

It covered food and water as well as energy, since future global energy demand (and emissions) depends on population and economic development in places like China and India (as COP21 is rediscovering).

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 discussions, which took place in New Delhi on the 29 - 30 of January, covered global climate leadership, urban development issues, supply and demand energy pathways, and financing for sustainable development.

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.»

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The world is on track to reach dangerous levels of global warming much sooner than expected, according to new Australian research that highlights the alarming implications of rising energy demand.

It is projected that — with current policy settings — global energy demand and associated supply patterns based on fossil fuels — the main drivers of GHG emissions — will continue to grow.

In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.

As demand for energy grows, the global investment community is looking for new opportunities for capital growth on the development of new generation.

In particular, it reviews the main challenges faced by the countries of the region in their quest for sustainable development, with a focus on emerging trends related to increasing demands for infrastructure development, energy supply, and commodity exports, as well as opportunities offered by the global response to climate change.

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

Their current 5 - year plan is full of action to develop knowledge and products that are based on the view that there will be a huge global market demand for new energy technology, rail transport, ice breaking ships, nuclear power, etc..

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.

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

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.

In this way I've benefited from courses on global climate change, climatology, future energy supply and demand, the physics of the greenhouse effect and planetary radiation balance, and climate politics and policy options.