Sentences with phrase «own fuel reserves»

Scientists have shown that most existing fossil fuel reserves can not be burned without causing dangerous climate change.

If the world's governments fulfil their pledges to tackle climate change by cutting carbon emissions, many fossil fuel reserves would have to be kept in the ground, potentially wasting trillions of investors» money.

That's equivalent to burning just 20 % of the fossil fuel reserves already on the books of companies and nations that disclose them.

The details of the IPCC's findings take direct aim at the long - term value of fossil fuel reserves.

To ensure the fund had a low - carbon footprint, NUBD excludes issuers in sectors having high levels of fossil - fuel reserve ownership — which includes metals miners and oil and gas producers.

Think of it as a homeowner who borrows based on the inflated value of a home: When this «carbon bubble» bursts — for example, when governments finally enact policies to restrict or penalize the burning of carbon — the devaluation of fossil fuel reserves may be even worse than the housing bubble that sent shock waves down Wall Street five years ago.

Oil and gas companies, the most profitable corporations in history, are counting their fossil fuel reserves as money in the bank and continuing to spend capital on finding and developing even larger reserves.

It has been estimated that, if the whole world enjoyed a standard of living and energy consumption equal to the US average, the world's fossil fuel reserves would last only 20 years.

Beneficial fats: Fat in mother's milk provides your baby with energy for growth and a reliable source of fuel reserves.

It is no coincidence that the citizens of Arab countries with limited fossil fuel reserves have enjoyed greater freedom over the years than their oil - rich neighbours.

Cuomo said the state has since set up fuel reserves, made sure there are backup generators where needed at key gas stations, and made the power grid more resilient.

But most investors and oil companies are betting on business as usual, with Shell still trying to find new fossil fuel reserves.

Burning known fossil fuel reserves would release nearly 3000 gigatonnes, and energy companies are currently spending $ 600 billion trying to find more.

Methane - laced ice crystals in the seafloor store more energy than all the world's fossil fuel reserves combined.

British and Finnish scientists have found a way of generating renewable propane using a bacterium widely found in the human intestine and say the finding is a step to commercial production of a fuel that could one day be an alternative to fossil fuel reserves.

«The amount of carbon released during this time was vast — more than 30 times larger than all the fossil fuels burned to date and equivalent to all the current conventional and unconventional fossil fuel reserves we could feasibly ever extract.»

Jeremy Leggett, a geologist who was once an oil industry consultant and now runs Greenpeace's climate campaign, concludes that «we have no option but to leave the vast majority of the remaining fossil - fuel reserves in the ground».

A quick look at the proposed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carbon budget to keep global warming below 2 °C, alongside the fossil fuel reserves held by the industry, is enough to see that the two aren't compatible.

A warming climate largely eliminated summertime sea ice along the Arctic coasts, exposing vast fossil fuel reserves.

Laughlin says the answer lies in the universe's secret fuel reserves: brown dwarfs, Jupiter - size balls of hydrogen too massive to be considered planets but that never achieved the heft to become full - fledged stars.

find a technology that lets us use our fossil fuel reserves without emitting CO2 into the atmosphere.

But «it would take a lot of CO2, and there might not be enough carbon in the entire fossil fuel reserve to do it.»

But thinking beyond 2020, we will eventually need to work out how to make the agreement both more effective and more acceptable to nations, companies and individuals that own substantial fossil - fuel reserves — or the US won't be the last to leave.

Until such time as meaningful mitigation is seriously considered and planned for, the real - world scenario remains BAU and the debate which actually matters remains the one about the size of the fossil fuel reserves.

[Response: For climate purposes, the problem is coal (and maybe methane hydrates)-- there is more than enough fossil fuel reserves for the IPCC scenarios.

The increased price of energy and exhaustion of good - quality fuel reserves mean it is currently more profitable to use lower - quality fuels.

There are enough fossil fuel reserves (in oil, coal, and methane hydrates) to continue to increase CO2 way beyond 400ppmv as will be seen in a very few number of years.

McKibben [255], published in a popular magazine, uses quantitative results of M2009 to conclude that most remaining fossil fuel reserves must be left in the ground, if global warming this century is to be kept below 2 °C.

Healthy Qi from TCM acupuncture therapy will often help the body replenish its fuel reserves.

That's exactly what you're doing when you exercise with hypothyroidism... using up all your fuel reserves and unknowingly killing your thyroid in the process.

I did something that is well known to severely inhibit thyroid function, deplete fuel reserves, reduce blood flow, and slow metabolism to a snail's pace.

So don't panic, if you decide to skip breakfast, you have plenty of fuel reserves to cover you.

Thridly the lack of calories contained in the vegetable juice forces the body to burn its own fuel reserves, firstly as glycogen and then as fat stores.

The more you exercise, the more your body depletes its fuel reserves like glycogen.

Some glycogen is stored inside the liver as a fuel reserve for the brain.

What remains are stored in the muscles as fuel reserves for the body.

We must leave 80 percent of the current fossil fuels reserves in the ground.»

All that has just been described on the duration of fossil fuel reserves indicates that, given the longevity of coal, it would be the source of energy to be used in the future when other fossil fuels are depleted, a fact that would aggravate the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere.

The Viper was apparently on fuel reserve on the final lap even with the safety car — it was very close for many of us but I think we had enough to do it and we could have possibly won.

We clear - cut forests, and so we turn to oil; once we exhaust our fossil - fuel reserves, we'll start driving electric cars, at least until we run out of lithium... So here's the paradox: creativity is the only solution to the very real problem of creativity.

The MSCI Emerging Markets ex Fossil Fuels Index (the «Index») is designed to measure the performance of companies in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index that are «fossil fuel reserves free,» which are defined as companies that do not own fossil fuel reserves.

Unless otherwise noted all information contained herein is that of the SPDR ® MSCI Emerging Markets Fossil Fuel Reserves Free ETF.

It gets less tedious once you upgrade your fuel reserves, but you're still forced to watch the same space flight animation over and over.

Hansen et al 2013: «Humanity, so far, has burned only a small portion (purple area in figure 6) of total fossil fuel reserves and resources.

I think the progress towards renewable energy is going to driven by countries like China and Germany that have few fossil fuel reserves.

Gavin, are you aware of the complete disconnect between SRES estimates of fossil fuel reserves, which are based on a single review paper by Roger in 1997, and more recent views regarding peak oil, peak gas, and peak coal?

The world's fossil fuel reserves (also known as «assets»), far exceed that budget.

Those countries are poor in fossil fuel reserves but home to vast forests, which they harvest and burn for heating and electricity.

Incidentally, with the current fossil fuel reserves estimated to last for at least another 150 years, we certainly are not even close to reaching the same level of greenhouse gases any time soon, that existed when the production of biomass was at its peak.

This chart from a paper in Science Advances shows how burning different amounts of the world's remaining fossil fuel reserves could affect Antarctic ice.