-- Implementing a partial phase -
out of fossil fuel consumption subsidies accounts for 12 % of the reduction in emissions and supports efficiency efforts.
Not exact matches
Spread the cost
of reducing
fossil -
fuel consumption over the next century, and it turns
out that the world would reach the same level
of prosperity in 102 years that it is now projected to reach in 100.
In addition to the work in the World Energy Outlook, the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC since 2009, when G20 leaders took a major step toward reforming energy subsidies and committed to «rationalize and phase
out over the medium term inefficient
fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful
consumption», the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC in support
of their commitments.
August 18, 1981 memo from Exxon's Roger Cohen to Exxon's Werner Glass with comments about Glass» draft report on possible consequences
of fossil fuel consumption out to 2030.
Since we were running
out of oil anyway, environmentally motivated efforts to limit
fossil fuel consumption and increase our use
of renewable energy boasted the additional virtue
of being inevitable.
By some estimates, a phase
out of global
fossil fuel consumption and production — particularly coal and oil — will need to be nearly complete within 50 years.
There are also concerns that pumping sequestered CO2 into oil and gas wells to help make the
fuels easier to pump
out of the ground will lead to further
consumption of fossil fuels, and CO2 emissions, thus adding to global warming.
In November 2015, the leaders
of Asia - Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) economies, reaffirmed their landmark 2009 commitment to «rationalize and phase
out over the medium term inefficient
fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful
consumption while recognizing the importance
of providing those in need with essential energy services».
ALL government funded climate science, which for all intents and purposes is all climate science, is focused on collecting, massaging, and adjusting data to tease
out the «ACO2 signature» which confirms ACO2 causality, suppressing or discrediting data which conflicts with ACO2 causality, and demonizing and destroying individuals or organizations which question either ACO2 causality OR the need for total government control
of all
fossil fuel consumption.
We will be all
out of fossil fuel in 100 years at present rates
of consumption.
Nevertheless, the increased electricity
consumption intensity in the economy has been satisfied by
fossil fuel burning, which has cancelled
out the advantages
of that shift.»
The
consumption of water and
fossil fuel making food that is thrown
out, the 150 trillion calories per year, landfilled, that could have fed people around the world, the statistics just pile up.
The government
of Iran spent the most on promoting
fossil fuel consumption in 2010, doling
out $ 81 billion in subsidies.