Sentences with phrase «reliance on fossil fuels»

The solar plant will help meet the country's electricity needs and reduce reliance on fossil fuels for power generation.

Second, the transition from reliance on fossil fuels towards other sources of energy and more efficient use of energy will take off.

The world's experts have stated that the global warming is largely due to human activity — primarily as the result of reliance on fossil fuels.

A look at the possible solutions available to end the world's reliance on fossil fuels as a source of energy.

They have also said that pipelines increase reliance on fossil fuel, rather than shifting toward clean energy sources.

They think saving gas decreases reliance on fossil fuels and foreign oil.

Our strong economy and our clean air go hand in hand with our relatively low reliance on fossil fuel.

In the future, it is expected to reduce reliance on fossil fuels such as oil, coal or gas and help tackle major challenges such as climate change and global population growth.

It extends reliance on fossil fuels, at a time when scientists warn that we can only burn twenty percent of current reserves before the world tips past the crucial 2 degree Celsius point.

Most recently we reported on the launch of their CSA here - local, organic food being a core part of the organization's vision for reduced reliance on fossil fuels.

This would help create 4.5 million new jobs while cutting electric rates by half compared to continued reliance on fossil fuels.

France currently has in place a 50MW programme to endow Corsica and its other island territories with solar - plus - storage projects that should provide a degree of energy security and lower reliance on fossil fuels in many of those remote areas.

Further, Delkus wrote, Canada's federal government also has joined other members of the Group of Seven industrial nations to reduce reliance on fossil fuels by between 40 percent and 70 percent by 2050.

Hawkins and the Green Party want to end reliance on fossil fuels 20 years earlier than Nixon does, by 2030.

Japan's emissions increased 2.4 percent due to greater reliance on fossil fuel power after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima.

Many of them, including a plan to overhaul anti-sexual harassment procedures in state government, criminal justice reforms that include ending cash bail, and reducing the state's reliance on fossil fuels with a push to divest the pension fund from oil companies, have already been rolled out in recent weeks.

«With strong economic growth and continued heavy reliance on fossil fuels expected for most of (the developing) economies, much of the increase in carbon dioxide emission is projected to occur among the developing... nations,» the EIA said in the report, its annual International Energy Outlook.

That's drastically increased Japan's reliance on fossil fuel imports, the bill for which is increasing $ 30 billion a year, Reuters notes in its report.

National and state investment in and support of CCS are completely consistent with the Donald Trump Administration's goals to invest in infrastructure projects, continue U.S. reliance on fossil fuels, and create jobs.

Pipeline companies are not having a lot of success in New York so far in 2016; opponents say they are dirty and continue New York's over reliance on fossil fuels.

In addition to our massive reliance on fossil fuels as an energy source, there is another aspect that is mentioned...

There's no question that the main thrust all over the planet has been in [the direction] of a kind a homogenization and that homogenization is the product of reliance on fossil fuel more than anything else.

While Americans may be ignoring the warming world, they do seem to be paying slightly more attention to one of its key causes: the nation's excessive and unsustainable reliance on fossil fuels.

The country's sparse population means that its natural resources are relatively untouched and pristine, and 85 percent of its energy comes from renewable sources such as geothermal power stations, which means less reliance on fossil fuel.

The tax extenders allow states to meet pending CO2 regulations almost exclusively with zero - emitting renewables, leaving the country well positioned for deeper cuts down the road rather than a greater reliance on fossil fuel — fired power.

49 Mazria also recognizes the need for faculty retraining in the country's 124 architectural schools to «transform architecture from its mindless and passive reliance on fossil fuels to an architecture intimately linked to the natural world in which we live.»

True, the talk of the end of industrial culture may not play well with those who see a darker side of Transition Towns, but it seems hard to argue against the fact that our current reliance on fossil fuels to feed and clothe ourselves leaves us incredibly vulnerable to future price shocks and disruption of supply.

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They also lessen reliance on fossil fuels, thus decreasing carbon dioxide emissions and other forms of pollution harmful to humans and the planet alike.

Not only does Amazon's reliance on fossil fuels mean shopping on their own ecommerce site is dirtier than it needs to be, but because Amazon Web Services provide hosting to a huge number of major web players including Netflix and Pinterest, Amazon's own failings mean the rest of the internet is being dragged down with it.

We explored how countries» postures in talks were as often as not about reliance on fossil fuels, economic competitiveness or domestic politics as targets and timetables for emissions or financial help for vulnerable communities.

At best, if it worked well, geo - engineering would be addictive, committing future generations to continue it and encouraging further reliance on fossil fuels.

With shade grown coffee and a limited reliance on fossil fuels Dukale's farm (they use methane gas harvested from the livestock manure to power their homes) provides an example of what farming can be like.

Still, the voracious energy consumption of Google's data centers makes any attempt to reduce the company's reliance on fossil fuels noteworthy.

She acknowledged that Canada's historic reliance on fossil fuel exports represents a unique hurdle in building a clean economy.

This is done not only by supplying renewable energy from the closed anaerobic reactor, thus reducing or even eliminating reliance on fossil fuels, but also by replacing traditional, open, methane - producing lagoons, and by replacing power - consuming, sludge - producing aerobic WWTPs.

Why It Matters: Reducing our nation's reliance on fossil fuels relies on creating technologies to quickly and efficiently convert the power generated at wind farms and other sources into a use - any - time fuel, such as hydrogen molecules.

Bigger plants growing more quickly could provide more energy, lessening human reliance on fossil fuels.

Here's a post I published late last night that includes more on Obama's approach to the specific challenge posed by this well and the long - term challenge posed by America's persistent reliance on fossil fuels:

I spent much of today mulling a new «pragmatic» approach to gaining traction on curbing greenhouse gases even as the world and nation struggle with debt and maintain a deep reliance on fossil fuels.

Your ideological biases, or personal gains and reliance on the fossil fuel industry are obviously clouding your judgment about some simple facts.

Conservation is encouraged to decrease our planets reliance on fossil fuels and wasting of our natural resources.

The environmental threats and economic costs of continued reliance on fossil fuel technologies are sufficiently urgent to warrant substantially larger public support in the form of private - sector R&D incentives and a refocusing of effort by the national energy laboratories on the development and diffusion of alternative energy technologies.

Builders of earthships make their homes with natural and recycled materials, with the goal of minimal reliance on fossil fuels and public utilities.