Slower growth in China and a possible recession in Europe have
reduced global demand for energy and other goods.
Not exact matches
Given the increasing
demand for energy around the world and the dearth of international action to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we may be headed
for a true
global disaster.
«We can
reduce through substantial behavioral change and lifestyle change the
demand for energy and the consumption of
energy,» noted Ramon Pichs - Madruga, economist at Cuba's Center
for the Investigation of the
Global Economy and co-chair of the Working Group III report.
The growing
global demand for food and bio-
energy, and the recent rises in food prices, slow down progress in
reducing poverty, but increase
demand for water from the agriculture and
energy sectors.
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.
The technology currently available
for installing distributed renewable
energy in developing countries can not yet raise all of the world's poorest to the levels of per capita
energy consumption previously reached in the west, but developed countries are already
reducing overall
energy demand and increasing
energy efficiency, rendering historical patterns of
energy usage the wrong benchmark
for global standards in any case.
Here's why:
Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, while simultaneously meeting the surging
demand for energy in developing countries, requires the development and deployment of clean
energy technologies on a massive scale.
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.
The exact same actions that would
reduce global warming would also preserve general air & water quality,
reduce the levels of toxins in our food, ensure we have
energy to meet our
demands,
reduce erosion, and maintain wild places
for us to enjoy.