Sentences with phrase «on use of fossil fuels»

After failing to convince Congress to enact a «cap and trade» system to limit carbon emissions, Obama has increasingly relied on a regulatory approach such as his recently - announced limits on use of fossil fuels by power plants.

There will be new bite in the European Emissions Trading Scheme as tough, new limits for carbon emissions are set; as the carbon price rises, so there will be a further incentive to economise on the use of fossil fuels.

Here was where governments would make real economic and political decisions on the use of fossil fuels.

I personally believe that there are many good reasons to be conserving on the use of fossil fuels but global warming is not one of them.

A policy mix comprising cash transfers, stronger social insurance and limits on the use of fossil fuels would lead to faster economic growth, stronger employment creation and a fairer income distribution, as well as lower greenhouse gas emissions.

They do this in order to sell renewable sources of energy and justify placing constraints on the the use of fossil fuels.

Years earlier, one climate researcher at the company, Henry Shaw, had called management's attention to a key conclusion of a landmark National Academy of Sciences report: global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, not a scarcity of supply, would likely set the ultimate limit on the use of fossil fuels.

We are deeply dependent on the use of fossil fuels, and consequently, significant barriers exist to mainstreaming renewable energy use.

What's lost in a lot of the discussion about human - caused climate change is not that the sum of human activities is leading to some warming of the earth's temperature, but that the observed rate of warming (both at the earth's surface and throughout the lower atmosphere) is considerably less than has been anticipated by the collection of climate models upon whose projections climate alarm (i.e., justification for strict restrictions on the use of fossil fuels) is built.

me warming of the earth's temperature, but that the observed rate of warming (both at the earth's surface and throughout the lower atmosphere) is considerably less than has been anticipated by the collection of climate models upon whose projections climate alarm (i.e., justification for strict restrictions on the use of fossil fuels) is built.

C has too high a climate sensitivity and a cutoff on use of fossil fuels.

Buy Bowls Locally Made of Recycled Matter Eco-friendly food and water bowls on the market include: recycled plastics and glass; stainless steel, which is durable and doesn't often get scratch marks where bacteria can hide; and locally made, lead - free ceramic bowls, which cut down on the use of fossil fuels used to transport the goods.

And yet, their study on the use of fossil fuels doesn't end in Teller's class.

The analysis concludes that even a less ambitious climate goal, like a 3 °C rise in average global temperature or more, which would pose significantly greater risks for our society and economy, would still imply significant constraints on our use of fossil fuel reserves between now and 2050.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.

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.

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.

He gets lambasted for supposed hypocrisy because he flies to places on planes — which use a lot of fossil fuel — to criticize the fossil fuel industry.

Having acknowledged the need to turn from the overdependence on fossil fuels to more environmentally friendly sources of energy, the government has tried to encourage the production of automobiles that use alternative sources of fuel by trying to give tax incentives to any buyers of such cars.

Elon Musk is very enthusiastic in pushing for the widespread use of solar energy to replace fossil fuels, so it was no surprise that the Tesla continues to focus on improving its technology for energy storage — if the car manufacturer's gigafactory is any indication of that.

«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.

Of course they will continue to use equipment that consumes fossil fuels; but on small, diversified, labor - intensive farms, the quantity used will be greatly reduced.

The problem is aggravated by a model of development based on the intensive use of fossil fuels, which is at the heart of the worldwide energy system.

You could see rural communities emptied, and farms dependent on the unsustainable use of chemicals and fossil fuel.

The climatological effect of this borrowed energy use and resulting emissions can be debated, but the reality of an agricultural system heavily reliant on fossil fuel and mechanization is indisputable.

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.

CO2 emissions from the agricultural sector represent 21 - 25 percent of total CO2 emissions, due to fossil fuels used on farms, shifting patterns of cultivation and chiefly, deforestation.

On top of that, organic farming reduces non-renewable energy use by decreasing the need for chemicals, which require high quantities of fossil fuel to be produced.

, where students use thousands of styrofoam lunch trays each day, and where fossil fuels are burned sending children to school on buses that drive past shuttered schools near the bus stops.

The message: Cuomo is fully on board with those environmentalists who seek to block any project involving any use or expanded access to fossil fuels of any kind, at any time, in any place in New York State.

Zephyr Teachout claimed that John Faso «took» money from fossil fuel companies while they were trying to use eminent domain to build a pipeline on the properties of residents in the 19th Congressional District.

Denmark is on course to wean itself off the use of fossil fuels by 2050, according to a senior adviser at the Danish Industry Association, Hans Peter Slente.

«If that was a universal phenomenon on land, then you would see more of the carbon emitted from fossil fuel and land - use change staying in the atmosphere,» Houghton said, «but we are not really seeing that yet.»

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.»

His calculations, based on 2008 figures for the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, show that even assuming a lower estimate of forest carbon content, total and equivalent CO2 would level out at 476 parts per million, even if we stopped all fossil fuel use immediately.

By adopting lighting technologies that use less energy the nations of the world will cut down on the fossil fuels, often coal, burned to produce that light.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

OSLO (Reuters)- World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high - polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft U.N. study to be approved this week shows.

USC professor Sri Narayan's research focuses on the fundamental and applied aspects of electrochemical energy conversion and storage to reduce the carbon footprint of energy use and by providing energy alternatives to fossil fuel, Wednesday, June 10, 2014 in Los Angeles.

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.

The position paper on air pollution and cardiovascular disease was written by experts from the European Society of Cardiology and also recommends decreasing the use of fossil fuels.

You can't turn an ocean liner on a dime, and in their view, it will take a complete about - face in society's profligate use of fossil fuels to avert a catastrophe.

And even as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.

THE DEBATE about taxes on fossil fuels has focussed attention on a range of options for energy supply and use.

He added that using solar cells and abundantly available elements to split water into hydrogen and oxygen has enormous potential for reducing the cost of hydrogen production and that the approach could eventually replace the current method, which relies on fossil fuels.

Fossil - fuel use sends high levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but high levels of carbon dioxide aren't fingerprints of intelligent life, Shostak said — you can find tons of carbon dioxide on Venus.

Top priorities of the Trump transition team and cabinet nominees — many who disregard the connection between global warming and fossil fuel energy use — include rolling back eight years of Obama administration climate regulations and restrictions on coal, oil and gas development.

The new study suggests that some of these current uses will be affected over this century, depending on how much fossil fuel emissions increase or decrease.

(Reuters)- The U.S. electric industry knew as far back as 1968 that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming, but cast doubt on the science of climate change and ramped up coal use for decades afterward, an environmental watchdog group said on Tuesday.

If the researchers succeed in creating their synthetic bacteria, they will be closer to conceiving artificial creatures that could be used to mitigate some of society's greatest problems, among them climate change and overdependence on fossil fuels.