Sentences with phrase «resource consumption from»

The rebound effect can limit the environmental improvements possible through SCP [sustainable consumption and production] and sustainable products policies and technologies and, in particular, the goal of decoupling resource consumption from economic growth.

Not exact matches

Global shale resources are vast enough to cover more than a decade of oil consumption, according to the first - ever U.S. assessment of reserves from Russia to Argentina.

The only certain and politically feasible source of debt - free demand is domestic household consumption, but Chinese households suffer from the same problem Marriner Eccles identified in the US in the 1930s: those who want to spend do not have the resources, and those who have the resources do not want to spend — or in this case are not able to spend productively.

Worth noting is that in late 2017, Vitalik proposed Ethereum's transition away from PoW to Proof - of - stake (PoS) due to PoW's consumption of exorbitant amounts of energy and resources.

Large scale utilization of bioplastics (plastic made from renewable resources like biomass) would significantly decrease US foreign fossil fuel consumption, aiding in the goal of fossil fuel independence and possibly lead to a reduction in US military presence worldwide.

Yes, and there are 300 million citizens in the US and they can't stop from shooting each other and putting each other behind bars, and ruining the world banking system with dubious methods and instruments and wreck people's retirement savings all over the world, not to mention the high abortion rate, murder rate and consumption of resources rate... It's just a disorganized disaster, as opposed to the Nazi's who had an organized disaster.

Here are a few ethical considerations: the obligation not to exhaust nonrenewable resources, the imperative to provide accessible replacements, the necessity to improve our heritage modestly and carefully, the greater responsibility of the advantaged to improve that which exists and to share, and the obligation to refrain from excessive consumption and waste.

The report concludes, «Most economic models show that military spending diverts resources from productive uses, such as consumption and investment, and ultimately slows economic growth and reduces employment.»

How can the experiences and knowledge gained to reduce wasted food throughout the food supply chain — from production to consumption to resource management — inform the way we present the fundamental message of food recovery and recycling?

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

environmental issues directly associated with animal agriculture (such as air pollution and contaminated drainage from factory farming into water supplies) and to help lessen our over consumption of resources including land, water, and fossil fuels

This leads to rapid consumption of natural resources, which makes it difficult for them to feed and recover from the effects of climate change, such as increased flooding, malnutrition, and cholera.

This means that foreign loans are «a net drain on the economy, siphoning resources away from investment and consumption» (p. 36).

«This would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth,» the researchers said, noting that a portion of India's new energy consumption must be from «low - carbon» resources in order for global emissions to peak and then swiftly decline.

«We believe that fish consumption is an environmental justice issue that stems from inadequate risk communication through fish consumption advisories,» wrote Michelle Martinez and Alexandria Teague of the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and the Environment in a 2008 study.

All this consumption requires a host of natural resources, from vast copper mines scarring the landscape to ever more land for food.

Lead author Dr Robert Holland, also from the University's Centre for Biological Sciences, said: «Based on mapping patterns of freshwater consumption associated with energy sectors at subnational scales, our analysis also reveals that pressure on freshwater resources associated with energy production happens in a number of freshwater scarce river basins globally.

But even more damning is that the formulation Lomborg offers now, following criticism that he muddled the point, is still not unambiguous: sometimes projected resource lifetimes are measured based on extrapolating a constant rate of growth of consumption into the future starting «from the year discussed», rather than assuming a constant consumption rate, and sometimes they are measured «from the year discussed» by assuming that the consumption rate is following a bell - shaped curve (the famous «Hubbert's pimple»).4

Technological resources are distributed globally and the information is stored on Internet servers, freeing the user from the traditional dependence of the device, enhancing mobility, accessibility and security, and allowing until recently unthinkable access to next generation services via payment for consumption, that is, without a substantial prior economic investment.

Fischetti: The early [assertion] in the book about, I think it's being proved [out], [that] the earth really can't substantiate the resources that we're extracting from it or the waste that we're producing; and there's more studies that are coming out very recently even that are proving starting to put numbers on all of that, so the assertion is I think is that continued growth is not possible without greater resource consumption and [waste creation].

8.4 improve progressively through 2030 global resource efficiency in consumption and production, and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation in accordance with the 10 - year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production with developed countries taking the lead

School Wastage Study - National Absenteeism in Armenia «The term, school wastage, can be broadly defined as lack of demonstrated school success or realized educational gain (or value), measured as output of student achievement, outcome of social and economic returns, from provided educational services, finance, and other schooling related consumption of resources.

As the consumption - based model of technology integration transitions to a participatory approach and technology transitions from a tool for accessing information to a tool to (a) support student authoring and creativity, (b) facilitate collaboration, communication, and social learning, (c) allow for more efficient organization and accumulation of resources, (d) provide venues for student voices through publication and sharing, and (e) support student immersion in learning environments, educators also transition from «extending learning beyond what could be done without technology» (Mason et al., 2000) to «use technologies to promote effective student learning» (Hicks et al., 2014) In the revisioning of the first principle, the authors did a commendable job of affording increased value to range of tools, methods, content, abilities, and varied contexts of social studies classrooms.

The solution isn't easy but, according to Pearce, it is possible - we need to change how we think of water - instead of thinking of water as an endlessly renewal source that falls from the sky we need to think of it as a limited and precious resource that needs to be conserved - and he's not talking about putting a brick in the toilet or cutting down ones time in the shower, the first step is for us to understand our real water consumption and where that water comes from.

This has impacted heavily on the women and children who now have to walk further to fetch water for household consumption from different water points where they scramble for the meager resource with livestock.

Finally, Supreme Commander's energy - generation buildings also act as augmentations for nearby structures, doing anything from reducing resource consumption to increasing fire rate.

One could argue — on some people do — that, from the perspective of global resource consumption, a world with fewer individuals living in highly developed countries — ie, the places where per capital resource consumption is highest — would be desirable in order reduce the climate impact and resource consumption of the human population.

I would like to see an energy analysis of every new product, both from manufacture and in use, as well as resource consumption data.

Humanity could soon be confronted with a huge challenge that takes its astounding shape from continuously skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers as well as from economic globalization and per - capita consumption of limited resources by the human species.

But, as yet, there's no set of such goals for those who are already living lives that many analysts say are consuming resources at a pace well beyond the planet's carrying capacity, particularly if the habits that attend affluence — from greatly increased meat consumption to unthinking energy use and greenhouse - gas emissions — are adopted by another few billion people.

Per capita consumption is a function of economies of scale from a growing population, so a shrinking population will not consume at the same rate, even though the resources are there to exploit.

«Over,» formally titled «Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot,» explores themes at the heart of this blog — the harms from persistent high fertility rates, consumption for consumption's sake, disregard for the environmental and social impacts of resource extraction.

Regardless of the human - forced calamities — the ones derived from unchecked consumption, unbridled dissipation of resources bound up in the process of economic globalization, and skyrocketing global human numbers — that might befall coming generations, we live on in a patently unsustainable fantasy world (we call it reality) of idle comforts, effortless ease, conspicuous consumption, secret handshakes, exclusive clubs, exotic hideaways and thousands of private jets, having abandoned our regard for the less fortunate among us, for the maintenance of life as we know it, and for the preservation of the integrity of Earth.

But stocking your little one's closet with secondhand clothes is one of the easiest ways to save money — since the used items are sold for a fraction of the price; to save resources, since you aren't encouraging consumption by buying brand new; and to save yourself from worrying about every tackle, fall, and spill that could ruin that pricey (but too cute to resist sweater).

Our linear systems of production and consumption see the value of the world's finite resources lost, mined from the ground for chopped down to eventually be thrown away.

Brussels, Belgium — Reforming energy and agriculture should be top priorities in moving toward sustainable patterns of consumption, according to a new report from the United Nations Environmental Programme's (UNEP) International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, which is co-chaired by former Bren School dean Ernst von Weizsäcker.

Any response to climate change requires diverting resources (capital and labor) away from other activities that make us happy, be it education or health or private consumption, etc, which is costly.

Iran leads the world in fossil fuel consumption subsidies providing $ 78 billion from its government resources in 2014 to lower the cost of fossil fuels to end - users in its country.

The document then offers «solutions,» which include «universal fiscal equalization» and a «massive and absolute decoupling of well - being from resource extraction and consumption.»

The latter part is more original stuff, as I (i) make the case for how China's clean energy push is in fact consistent with its overall economic reform, e.g. Scientific Development, reduction of excess industrial capacity, natural resource price reform, western development, boosting domestic consumption, and Going Out strategy; (ii) describe China's activities in innovation and R&D and its desire to create, not just produce, energy technologies of the 21st century; (iii) address criticisms that China's «indigenous innovation» policies are protectionist in nature by pointing out the myopia of such observations from a US (or EU for that matter) policymakers point of view; (iv) provide thoughts about what the proper U.S. policy response should be.

This energy package, also referred to as the 20-20-20 package, was thought to help the EU meet its commitments for 2020 under the UN climate change negotiations by demanding a 20 % reduction in EU greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels; raising the share of EU energy consumption produced from renewable resources to 20 %; and finally, by improving the EU's energy efficiency also by 20 %

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Transmitting power from SA to the eastern states would be a practicality, while perhaps progressively moving high consumption industries such as aluminium smelting from the mainland eastern states to WA could be considered if the wind resource is to be utilised and Australia's greenhouse gas production rates reduced.

Invest in places that are committed to advancing ecological resilience, reducing resource consumption, and that will help to shift the economy away from dependence on extractive industries, in particular the fossil fuels industry.

ENVIRONMENTAL OVERVIEW Secretary of Environment & Natural Resources: Victor Lichtinger Total Energy Consumption (2000E): 6.18 quadrillion Btu * (1.6 % of world total energy consumption) Energy - Related Carbon Emissions (2000E): 103.2 million metric tons of carbon (1.6 % of world total carbon emissions) Per Capita Energy Consumption (2000E): 62.5 million Btu (vs U.S. value of 351.0 million Btu) Per Capita Carbon Emissions (2000E): 1.0 metric tons of carbon (vs U.S. value of 5.6 metric tons of carbon) Energy Intensity (2000E): 16,509 Btu / $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 10,918 Btu / $ 1995) ** Carbon Intensity (2000E): 0.28 metric tons of carbon / thousand $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 0.18 metric tons / thousand $ 1995) ** Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1998E): Industrial (54.7 %), Transportation (24.8 %), Residential (15.9 %), Commercial (4.6 %) Sectoral Share of Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (50.9 %), Transportation (31.1 %), Residential (13.2 %), Commercial (4.8 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Oil (63.2 %), Natural Gas (23.7 %), Coal (4.0 %) Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (2000E): Oil (73.5 %), Natural Gas (20.4 %), Coal (6.2 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 713.7 trillion Btu * (1 % decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 6.9 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified March 1Consumption (2000E): 6.18 quadrillion Btu * (1.6 % of world total energy consumption) Energy - Related Carbon Emissions (2000E): 103.2 million metric tons of carbon (1.6 % of world total carbon emissions) Per Capita Energy Consumption (2000E): 62.5 million Btu (vs U.S. value of 351.0 million Btu) Per Capita Carbon Emissions (2000E): 1.0 metric tons of carbon (vs U.S. value of 5.6 metric tons of carbon) Energy Intensity (2000E): 16,509 Btu / $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 10,918 Btu / $ 1995) ** Carbon Intensity (2000E): 0.28 metric tons of carbon / thousand $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 0.18 metric tons / thousand $ 1995) ** Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1998E): Industrial (54.7 %), Transportation (24.8 %), Residential (15.9 %), Commercial (4.6 %) Sectoral Share of Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (50.9 %), Transportation (31.1 %), Residential (13.2 %), Commercial (4.8 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Oil (63.2 %), Natural Gas (23.7 %), Coal (4.0 %) Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (2000E): Oil (73.5 %), Natural Gas (20.4 %), Coal (6.2 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 713.7 trillion Btu * (1 % decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 6.9 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified March 1consumption) Energy - Related Carbon Emissions (2000E): 103.2 million metric tons of carbon (1.6 % of world total carbon emissions) Per Capita Energy Consumption (2000E): 62.5 million Btu (vs U.S. value of 351.0 million Btu) Per Capita Carbon Emissions (2000E): 1.0 metric tons of carbon (vs U.S. value of 5.6 metric tons of carbon) Energy Intensity (2000E): 16,509 Btu / $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 10,918 Btu / $ 1995) ** Carbon Intensity (2000E): 0.28 metric tons of carbon / thousand $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 0.18 metric tons / thousand $ 1995) ** Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1998E): Industrial (54.7 %), Transportation (24.8 %), Residential (15.9 %), Commercial (4.6 %) Sectoral Share of Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (50.9 %), Transportation (31.1 %), Residential (13.2 %), Commercial (4.8 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Oil (63.2 %), Natural Gas (23.7 %), Coal (4.0 %) Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (2000E): Oil (73.5 %), Natural Gas (20.4 %), Coal (6.2 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 713.7 trillion Btu * (1 % decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 6.9 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified March 1Consumption (2000E): 62.5 million Btu (vs U.S. value of 351.0 million Btu) Per Capita Carbon Emissions (2000E): 1.0 metric tons of carbon (vs U.S. value of 5.6 metric tons of carbon) Energy Intensity (2000E): 16,509 Btu / $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 10,918 Btu / $ 1995) ** Carbon Intensity (2000E): 0.28 metric tons of carbon / thousand $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 0.18 metric tons / thousand $ 1995) ** Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1998E): Industrial (54.7 %), Transportation (24.8 %), Residential (15.9 %), Commercial (4.6 %) Sectoral Share of Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (50.9 %), Transportation (31.1 %), Residential (13.2 %), Commercial (4.8 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Oil (63.2 %), Natural Gas (23.7 %), Coal (4.0 %) Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (2000E): Oil (73.5 %), Natural Gas (20.4 %), Coal (6.2 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 713.7 trillion Btu * (1 % decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 6.9 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified March 1Consumption (1998E): Industrial (54.7 %), Transportation (24.8 %), Residential (15.9 %), Commercial (4.6 %) Sectoral Share of Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (50.9 %), Transportation (31.1 %), Residential (13.2 %), Commercial (4.8 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Oil (63.2 %), Natural Gas (23.7 %), Coal (4.0 %) Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (2000E): Oil (73.5 %), Natural Gas (20.4 %), Coal (6.2 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 713.7 trillion Btu * (1 % decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 6.9 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified March 1Consumption (2000E): Oil (63.2 %), Natural Gas (23.7 %), Coal (4.0 %) Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (2000E): Oil (73.5 %), Natural Gas (20.4 %), Coal (6.2 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 713.7 trillion Btu * (1 % decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 6.9 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified March 1Consumption (1998E): 713.7 trillion Btu * (1 % decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 6.9 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified March 11th, 1993).

Data from 22 countries shows the result: fewer resources per capita and a continued risk of famine in areas with low primary production — that is, the availability of carbon in the form of plant material for consumption as food, fuel and feed.

Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand — population policy Horn of Africa — joint position statement from civil society organizations on population growth and climate change IAP — statement on population and consumption International Planned Parenthood Federation — policy on climate change and sexual and reproductive health Nature Conservation Council of NSW — population policies Save the Children — policy on population Sierra Club — Global Population and the Environment Program Sustainable Population Party of Australia — population policies Various — extracts of references to population in selected policies Wildlife Trusts — position on population, resource use & consumption World Wildlife Fund — policy on population

It also would have expanded the RPS by calling for 35 % of electric consumption to come from renewable resources by 2030, up from 25 % by 2025.

By focusing on generating clean electricity, the Kingdom can move away from a reliance on domestic consumption of fossil fuels for electricity and use the saved resources to strengthen its exports.

U.S. crude oil production rebounds from recent lows, driven by continued development of tight oil resources, with consumption flat to down compared to recent history.