Sentences with phrase «reduced burning of fossil fuels»

«That alone conveys the urgency in dramatically reducing our burning of fossil fuels now.»

A draft document of the national security strategy showed that the Trump administration would actively oppose efforts to reduce the burning of fossil fuels for energy, which emits greenhouse gases that drive global warming.

You may believe that by increasing the efficiency of your lighting through any of these technologies you will be reducing the burning of fossil fuels.

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While Peabody was only down about 10 % at the end of May 2014, the stock got crushed as the government proposed to reduce carbon emissions (stemming from fossil fuels like coal), which would burn up even more of Peabody's bottom line.

The Anglo - Dutch company, like many of its peers, has faced growing investor pressure to address the need to reduce fossil fuel burning.

The power plant wouldn't burn fossil fuels and would actually reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere during the manufacturing process.

Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).

Black carbon aerosols — particles of carbon that rise into the atmosphere when biomass, agricultural waste, and fossil fuels are burned in an incomplete way — are important for understanding climate change, as they absorb sunlight, leading to higher atmospheric temperatures, and can also coat Arctic snow with a darker layer, reducing its reflectivity and leading to increased melting.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

«More than anything else this requires rapid and strong reductions of burning fossil fuels such as coal; but some emissions, for instance from industrial processes, will be difficult to reduce — therefore getting CO2 out of the air and storing it safely is a rather hot topic.

To resolve the energy poverty of billions will likely require burning more fossil fuels, but preventing catastrophic climate change definitely requires reducing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gas.

The world is warming due to the release of CO2 by fossil fuel burning This will change the climate unless we reduce CO2 emissions.

Burning gasoline will never get cleaner, but the overall carbon emissions of electric cars can be reduced by eliminating fossil fuels from the grid.

The ocean absorbs a third of carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by the burning of fossil fuels — a priceless «service» reducing global warming.

Why it matters: In the last half of the 20th century, sulfur emissions from fossil fuel burning in China increased by a factor of nine, dramatically reducing visibility.

They showed that reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels also reduces the pollution that causes millions of premature deaths in societies around the world.

, a coalition of coal - burning utilities that has long - worked to prevent attempts to regulate the coal industry to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

Chronic water stress could potentially reduce the carbon sink of deciduous forests in the U.S. by as much as 17 percent in coming decades, leading to a decrease in carbon capture that translates to an additional one to three days of global carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning each year, according to the paper, «Chronic water stress reduces tree growth and the carbon sink of deciduous hardwood forests.»

A major growth rate decrease in 1992 was partly attributed to a reduced fossil fuel source resulting from the atmospheric cooling following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, and reduced biomass burning https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/98JD00923

The implications for me is to reduce fossil fuel burning; whether it melts the glaciers through its soot or through GW is a secondary issue, though as proof of warming it has implications for many other GW harms.

The nations of the world will come together to set a target and timeframe for reducing emissions from burning fossil fuels at the end of 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This part of the report reinforces the reality that no policy aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases is meaningful unless it's relevant in the world's population billionaires, China and India, where the lion's share of growth in fossil fuel burning and emissions is coming.

A) Those who think that governments around the world should take action to reduce CO2 emissions because data collected in the last 30 years indicates that recent changes in climate can be traced to CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels during various human activities.

With fourteen of the fifteen warmest years on record having occurred since the year 2000; with oceans both warming and acidifying; and with unequivocal scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels is the principal cause — what can we do to rapidly reduce emissions?

Stopping, or at least greatly reducing, the burning of fossil fuels will cause financial pain to some big and profitable Australian industries for the sake of the global environment.

Recent studies including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common climate pollutants: black carbon and methane, both of which are emitted from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.

Wind farms reduce greenhouse emissions by displacing fossil fuelled power stations and they save lives by reducing the air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels that kills millions of people each year.

9/19/16 — Taxing carbon released from burning fossil fuels could be a key part of a comprehensive effort to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to human - caused climate change, two economists have argued in Issues.

This acceleration was due to a strong El Niño event — which triggered droughts and reduced the capacity of forests, vegetation and the oceans to absorb CO2 — as well as human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels.

Specifically, government leadership is needed to overcome technological and market barriers to deploying advanced energy technologies that would reduce the nation's vulnerability to oil supply disruptions and the adverse environmental effects of burning fossil fuels.

11/19/17 — Despite its stated goal of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by aggressively pursing clean energy technologies and phasing out fossil fuels, Germany is still burning lots of an especially dirty form of coal and is likely to badly miss its upcoming emission - reduction targets.

The cost of reducing emissions by, say, 10 per cent depends not on how much fossil fuel is burnt but how efficiently a country burns it.

REMI concluded that CCL's proposal would create between 2.1 to 2.8 million jobs, reduce carbon pollution by 50 %, increase household incomes, save up to 230,000 lives that would otherwise be lost from the pollution of burning fossil fuels, and add up to 1.3 trillion more to the GDP over a 20 year period.

Ms. Browner, a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was charged with directing the administrationâ $ ™ s effort to enact comprehensive legislation to reduce emissions of climate - altering gases and moving the country away from a dependence on dirty - burning fossil fuels.

The thinking behind it is straightforward: Human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels, generates carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that accumulate in the atmosphere; there they trap the sun's heat the way a greenhouse does; to reduce the heat, reduce the gases.

By adopting these technologies, states can also reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions significantly, as fossil fuels burned for transportation represent the largest share of the region's GHG emissions.

Using paper fiber as fuel reduces the amount of CO2 permanently released into the environment compared to the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, that are not renewable.

«To bend the emissions curve and put the world on a trajectory in line with the Paris Agreement we need to radically reduce the amount of fossil fuels we burn and investors have a crucial role to play in that.

In order of reduction, they call for controlling nitrogen oxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels using «maximum feasible reductions,» which could reduce reactive nitrogen emissions by 55 billion pounds of a year; increasing the efficiency of fertilizing crops (33 billion pounds a year); improved animal management policies (33 billion pounds); and ensuring that at least half the world's urban population has sewage treatment (11 billion pounds).

Under the Paris accord, which took years to reach, rich and poor countries committed to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases generated by burning fossil fuels that are blamed by scientists for warming the planet.

We don't know whether what you claim are benefits of «cheap» fossil fuels can really be attributed to their low cost or not, as we can't go back and check on every case as its price impacts work their way through the economy, nor can we speculate about foregone benefits, or whether the benefits are due to the artificially reduced price of burning carbon or whether people would enjoy them (or even greater benefits) in a fair market, except by examining by Capitalist analysis.

In a sane world which was running out of petroleum and had dire climate change problems due to excessive burning of fossil fuels highway speed limits would be greatly reduced.

Reducing these substances may be easier than cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, which is so pervasive because the vast majority of our energy still comes from burning fossil fuels — as delegates at the talks have been continually reminded by their location in Qatar, one of the world's biggest producers of natural gas.

This report is not about the tangle of these difficult problems, but about a central, indeed indispensable, part of the solution — greatly reducing U.S. emissions from fossil fuel burning, which constituted 84 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2004.

With 70 % of global energy demand currently met through the burning of carbon - based fuels, and demand predicted to double by 20351, the world faces a growing challenge: reducing climate change causing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions while not damaging a fragile global economy that is sustained by these abundant fossil fuels.

In addition, worldwide events between 1988 and 1998, such as the collapse of the Soviet Union and tearing down of the Berlin Wall, resulted in reduced global CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Answer: The concept of reducing fossil fuel burning has been slowed down by well meaning environmentalist movements lobbying for systems that do not work such as wind and solar.

«Offsetting» the carbon that you burn by conserving fossil fuel energy in some other area would, I think, have more validity; but the only real answer to greenhouse / climate change is to greatly reduce the amount of fossil fuels that we burn.

Similar to disposal of rubbish by land - fill, it is not a sustainable technology, but it is a way of temporarily reducing the harmful side effects of burning fossil fuels.

Added methane reduces heat radiation to space, amplifying the warming effect of carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels.