Sentences with phrase «reduce demand for fossil fuels»

A strategy to reduce demand for fossil fuels by pricing carbon and letting the market sort it out means oil will continue to flow through pipelines as long as there is demand for it, Gillian Steward writes.

If all fossil carbon energy were switched to renewable energies, wouldn't this completely reduce demand for fossil fuels and CO2 pollution?

It's a highly efficient way to reduce demand for fossil fuels and induce alternative energy supplies by using market forces.

How can this course be unfolding despite knowledge of climate consequences and evidence that a rising carbon price would be economically efficient and reduce demand for fossil fuels?

To get substantial emission reductions, you need policies that reduce demand for fossil fuels: Carbon pricing.

The goal of climate policy should be to reduce demand for fossil fuels and if we do that the oil sands will become superfluous.

There are many things that «average citizens» can do to reduce our demand for fossil fuels — most of which will also save us money and improve our health and quality of life.

The clean energy industry's continued ability to cut costs and reduce the demand for fossil fuels is pivotal to its success in the coming years.

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.

«GDP goes up because the fee and dividend provides a boost to consumer spending, reducing demand for fossil fuels does not have a significant impact on American employment and reduces energy imports from abroad, and the border adjustment means American firms are on a level playing field when it comes to competing on the world market.»

Reduced demand for fossil fuels will improve the environment by reducing air and water pollution as well as the heat - trapping gases that cause global warming.

Among those who have taken some interest in addressing climate change, there have over the last decade or so been discussions about whether a focus on curtailing the activities of the fossil fuel industries or a focus on reducing demand for fossil fuels is the right single or leading method to move society into a transition away from fossil energy.

States and electric utilities will invest the vast majority of those funds in energy efficiency and renewable technologies, with an emphasis on reducing demand for fossil fuel — based electricity and saving consumers money.

I agree with you that reducing demand for fossil fuels is the only thing that will really make a lasting difference.

However, reducing the demand for fossil fuels on the other hand would lower the price of oil and put a cap on tar sand production.

It does not, however, follow — as the fossil fuel interests would have us believe — that reducing the demand for fossil fuels requires reducing the demand for «energy».

Not exact matches

Besides, as some savvy environmentalists are arguing, trying to reduce GHG emissions by chocking fossil fuel supplies — rather than reducing demand for them — is tilting at windmills.)

Mr Bambridge says this the plant indirectly reduces the brewery's carbon footprint by reducing the brewery's demands on fossil fuels and the electricity needs for wastewater treatment by using energy - friendly anaerobic pre-treatment technology in which GWE is a world leader.

At the same time, many nations are grappling with how to reduce energy demand, especially demand for fossil fuels.

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.»

Time for a «Triple Play»: Reduce Oil Prices and Dependence on Fossil Fuels, while Meeting the Growing Demand for Electric Power

Investments that encourage the construction of new renewable resources will cut the demand for fossil fuel - based electricity, reducing air pollution and global warming emissions.

In particular, reducing domestic demand for fossil fuels would lower the price of those fuels in other countries, thereby increasing their use in those countries.

An ► energy tax - a levy on the energy content of fuels - reduces demand for energy and so reduces CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use.

SWH systems also provide an important opportunity to reduce our nation's growing demand for energy from fossil fuels.

If global warming accelerates, Schneiderman's logic goes, then Exxon would be stuck with fossil fuel reserves rendered worthless by future regulations or a concomitant reduced demand for oil.

We would rather see it focused on energy efficiency and renewable energy projects that reduce the overall demand for fossil fuels.»

Given the current relative inelasticity of demand for fossil fuel in the USA how much would you have to tax it to reduce consumption in order to meet your goal?

Choosing tar sands - free fuel will add little cost, but make a big difference in limiting demand for this extreme fossil fuel, and reduce in US carbon pollution.

Instead of rapidly reducing emissions as the Paris Agreement demands, TAP would lock Europe into fossil fuels for decades.

With fossil fuels, a large majority of economists that contemplate climate action advocate a price on carbon, either a tax or a permit to emit, which would reduce demand for the fuels without restricting supply.

The way to keep fossil fuels in the ground is to reduce demand for them.

If enacted, backers say the bills would drive growth for renewables, battery storage and demand management, as well as help the state reduce the need for fossil fuel peaker plants.

Global demand for wooden pellets, used to replace coal in the generation of electricity, has risen considerably in recent years as governments seek ways in which to cut carbon emissions and reduce fossil fuel reliance.

Referencing Architecture 2030's submission to the UNFCCC — the Roadmap to Zero Emissions: The Built Environment in a Global Transformation to Zero Emissions report — he demonstrated how a combination of reducing the built environment's demand for fossil fuel energy while increasing the world's supply of renewable energy sources will meet the Paris Agreement's long - term 1.5 °C goal.

These scenarios do not reflect the huge potential for reducing fossil fuel demand in accordance with decarbonisation pathways.

Second, reduced U.S. demand for fossil fuels would result in lower global prices for those fuels, making them more attractive in unregulated countries.

For example, in the IEA report that Chevron cites frequently, stranded assets are «capital investment in fossil - fuel infrastructure that ends up failing to be recovered over the operating lifetime of the asset because of reduced demand or lower prices resulting from climate policy» [3].

GRE strives to demonstrate energy - efficient technologies that can be transferred to their customers and reduce future demand for fossil fuel - based electric generation.

The timeframe is too small for meaningful analysis, but it would reasonable to predict a reduction in the rate of increase of fossil fuel consumption due to reduced demand.

They certainly don't want the demand for their products — and consequently their profits — to be reduced by a large - scale, rapid move away from burning fossil fuels and towards climate - friendly renewables like wind and solar generated electricity.

I'm not claiming to be a paragon of virtue, merely pointing out that there is a whole lot that individuals can do to reduce their own demand for fossil fuels, besides, as you suggest, «nothing».

Neither does it follow — as the fossil fuel interests would have us believe — that reducing the demand for energy requires reducing the demand for the goods and services that energy provides.

Replacing 11,000 Mtoe of energy — Per Year — by 2040 means replacing (or reducing the demand for) more than all the fossil fuel energy used globally today.

The continuing installation of solar power on the roofs of Australian homes as well as the increasing number of utility - scale solar power stations (like the one in the photo on the right) is also reducing demand for new fossil fuel power.

Moreover, waste prevention, minimization, material recovery, recycling and re-use represent a growing potential for indirect reduction of GHG emissions through decreased waste generation, lower raw material consumption, reduced energy demand and fossil fuel avoidance.