Sentences with phrase «reduces use of fossil fuels»

By reducing heat loss and unwanted heat gain, any insulation material reduces the use of fossil fuels or electricity required for heating and cooling buildings.

The truth of the matter is that if the world reduces the use of fossil fuels there will be starvation on a broad scale, and many more people will die simply because they lack the energy for clean and safe living.

Life on land: Expanding renewable energies and clean electricity further reduces the use of fossil fuels.

Buying locally creates jobs, reduces use of fossil fuels and helps the environment.

Why also is eco-friendly British Columbia, home of a provincial carbon tax designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels, being such a willing conduit for transporting US coal to Asian markets?

Groups such as Friends of the Earth warn the UK can not «plant its way out» of climate change but instead must reduce its use of fossil fuels.

«It's clear to me that no technology will do more than nuclear to reduce our use of fossil fuels.»

We are trying to reduce the use of fossil fuels, and we are trying to do what we can to ultimately ensure that we have clean green energy in this country.

Around 60 to 70 more would need to buy an electric vehicle for the utility to meet its goal under the renewable energy standard to reduce the use of fossil fuels, he said.

Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann called it «an interesting study from highly respected climate researchers» that highlights the need to reduce the use of fossil fuels quickly.

«We are on the front lines of sea level rise and other climate change effects and we must drastically reduce our use of fossil fuels.

Ignoring terrestrial carbon led to a nearly complete loss of unmanaged forests by 2100, largely because they were replaced by massive expansions of bioenergy crops that were planted to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

Not only will this reduce the use of fossil fuels, but the higher purity fuels made in this way can be used in even higher compression ratio engines, increasing efficiency even more.

Reducing the use of fossil fuels and slowing deforestation have many beneficial effects besides mitigating climate change.

We should make every effort to conserve energy and to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

I applaud and support all the efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuels and when this is not possible, the use of latest and cleanest fossil fuel technologies to clean up the pollution associated with greenhouse gases.

We could reduce the use of fossil fuels by living in smaller houses (the size of earlier generations» homes would be a major improvement), driving smaller cars, living as close to work as possible to cut down on commuting, and car pooling.

So, even conservative estimates of committed warming indicate that we have to urgently reduce radiative forcing, in other words peak global GHG emissions as soon as possible and then reduce them as quickly as possible by reducing our use of fossil fuels drastically, if we want to have a chance at keeping warming under 2C.

Policy is how to go about reducing the use of fossil fuels which are producing the extra CO2.

Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann called it «an interesting study from highly respected climate researchers» that highlights the need to reduce the use of fossil fuels quickly.

Consider the difference between, «If we don't reduce our use of fossil fuels we can kiss our way of life goodbye», and «I think the balance of evidence suggests we reduce CO2 emissions or there is potential for serious consequences.»

Solar has become a mainstream technology that Massachusetts residents, businesses, and institutions can own and operate; a technology that produces local clean energy, saves money, and lightens the electric burden on the utility grid while reducing the use of fossil fuels» said William Stillinger, President of SEBANE.

Despite all that, Parkinson said she maintains some optimism that mankind will head off the problem by reducing use of fossil fuels.

Therefore, it is of the highest priority that we reduce the use of fossil fuels and energy in general, and develop renewable energy.

In April, the alliance responded directly to news of the upcoming encyclical with an open letter to Pope Francis outlining why «it is both unwise and unjust to adopt policies requiring reduced use of fossil fuels for energy» and encouraging the pope to «advise the world's leaders to reject them.»

The home, built by Effect Home Builders, has been open on Sundays and displays the solar - powered approach to reducing the use of fossil fuels.

The campus greenhouse gas reduction plan outlined in the report centers on four key approaches: reducing the overall energy use on campus, reducing the use of fossil fuels in campus buildings and vehicles, increasing the use of renewable energy sources to meet campus needs, and minimizing the release of «fugitive» gases from campus operations such as specialty research gases in laboratory buildings.

And reducing the use of fossil fuels would kill more millions, possibly billions.

Reducing the use of fossil fuels would kill more millions or billions.

As I have noted before, no - one in their right mind is going to reduce the use of fossil fuels, so we will proceed with the uncontrolled experiment of adding more and more CO2 to the atmosphere.

It stresses the good, such as «we will use and generate only renewable energy,» rather than the more commonly stated less bad; «we will reduce our use of fossil fuels.»

Ending tropical forest loss, improving tropical forest management, and restoring 500 million hectares of tropical forests could reduce emissions enough to provide 10 - 15 years of extra time to reduce the use of fossil fuels, they write.

This century, the government of the United Kingdom has adopted an energy policy designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels, especially coal, to generate electricity and replace them, as much as possible, with renewables, especially wind.

In light of these considerations, we believe it is both unwise and unjust to adopt policies requiring reduced use of fossil fuels for energy.

This has led many well - meaning people to call for reduced carbon dioxide emissions and hence reduced use of fossil fuels.

Pope Francis officially released his encyclical, «Laudato Si («Be Praised»), On the Care of Our Common Home», calling on «every person living on this planet» to urgently address climate change, reduce the use of fossil fuels, and transition to clean...

The purpose of the «treaty» is to provide a framework for developed countries to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases primarily by reducing their use of fossil fuels.

Climate scientists are not only speaking to the public about the science of climate change, but also are calling for policies designed to reduce use of fossil fuel, the primary anthropogenic source of greenhouse gas emissions.»

And how do we square this with the equally pressing need to reduce our use of fossil fuels?

Contrast this with the dollars that flow from the vested interests that stand to lose by reduced use of fossil fuels.

This sentiment has been ratified, sanctified and tallied by the political, moral and financial bellwethers of our time from Paris (195 countries committing to phase out fossil fuels this century) to the Vatican (the Pope's moral invocations to drastically reduce use of fossil fuels), to the Bank of England (governor Mark Carney's prudent warnings not to get stuck holding a bag of stranded fossil fuel assets).

The ecoAmerica / CRED report even points to a study in which changing a message ever so slightly — from «Want to reduce your use of fossil fuels?

Climatic variability in summer is projected to increase, with southern Europe experiencing more heat, less precipitation, and more frequent droughts — yet heavier rainstorms when it does rain.23 Northern Europe can expect more overall precipitation.21 Smog is also expected to rise — unless we reduce our use of fossil fuels.28, 29,30,31

If a carbon tax succeeded in reducing the use of fossil fuels, or forcing people to move to renewable energy, then it would erode its own tax base over time.

Fundamentally, government negotiators say «we'll reduce emissions,» but they don't say «we will reduce our use of fossil fuels,» which is what they must do to reduce emissions seriously and long term.

We need an energy policy in California that will sharply reduce the use of fossil fuels by no longer granting new permits for exploration and allowing oil and gas infrastructure development.

Put a price on carbon emissions — this will encourage utilities to reduce their use of fossil fuels, especially coal

Not to sound too cynical but I think we'll see subsidised Coal to Oil production way ahead of policies that reduce the use of fossil fuels — insuring a supply of oil being seen as urgent and Climate Change as less urgent.

Russia, China and India may promise to reduce use of fossil fuels.

Section 433 is a «cornerstone» piece of legislation because it adopts the 2030 Challenge targets and sets a federal standard specifically for reducing the use of fossil fuels in federal building operations.