Sentences with phrase «to reduce fossil fuel emissions»

It will reduce fossil fuel emissions about 25 % and also the ultimate need for renewable energy, which does have a carbon content in the manufacturing process.

Warming and deoxygenation are also caused by rising carbon dioxide emissions, underlining the importance of reducing fossil fuel emissions.

In December 2015, more than 195 nations agreed in Paris to attempt to contain global warming to 1.5 °C by drastically reducing fossil fuel emissions.

Singer added that Bolin was also at odds with a group of more than 2,400 scientists, including 97 Nobel Laureates, who declared that «scientific questions surrounding global warming have largely been resolved and that the government must take quick action, including reducing fossil fuel emissions.»

It would probably be someone whose grant has been funded by someone who finds reducing fossil fuel emissions detrimental to their own interests.»

They are a dangerous distraction providing governments and industry with an excuse to avoid reducing fossil fuel emissions.»

This is, rather, the conservative prediction of many climate scientists using cutting - edge climate models to predict different emissions pathways based on our action or inaction in reducing fossil fuel emissions.

Also, in a similar way to negative emissions technologies, solar geoengineering would not see the additional benefits for health of reducing fossil fuel emissions and improving air quality.

It will reduce fossil fuel emissions about 25 %

Although environmental groups believe investing in renewables is a better idea, «carbon abatement» techniques such as CCS could reduce fossil fuel emissions by up to 90 per cent, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The company chairman would later mock climate models as unreliable while he campaigned to stop global action to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

But not everyone is on board with the inclusion of a nuclear subsidy in a broader effort to reduce fossil fuel emissions, known as the clean energy standard.

«If we reduced fossil fuel emissions, it would be good news for radiocarbon dating,» said the study's author, Dr Heather Graven from the Department of Physics and the Grantham Institute — Climate Change and Environment at Imperial College London.

Global warming is here, and «severe, widespread and irreversible» damage may be inevitable unless faster action is taken to reduce fossil fuel emissions, a newly leaked UN report has warned.

The company chairman would later mock climate models as unreliable while he campaigned to stop global action to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

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

Before beginning his career at Peabody Energy, Palmer spent 15 years as the CEO and General Counsel of the Western Fuels Association (WFA), a coalition of coal - burning utilities that has long - worked to prevent attempts to regulate the coal industry to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

While the current emissions pledges in the Agreement do not limit us to 2 °C of warming, with increased action to reduce fossil fuel emissions, the participating countries could set the world on a path to 2 °C or lower.

The implication of the Hawaiian research is that if nations act in a concerted way to reduce fossil fuel emissions, an estimated 48 % of the human population could be at risk of summer extremes.

If we are to keep future temperatures from getting far outside that range, humanity will be forced to reduce fossil fuel emissions to zero by 2050.

Reducing fossil fuel emissions to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less means that a huge amount of proven fossil fuel reserves will need to stay in the ground.

That adds up to greenhouse gas reductions of about 400 tonnes a year, and is in - line with BC Hydro's ongoing efforts to help remote B.C. communities — too far away from the electricity system to be serviced by the 98 % clean energy generated by BC Hydro — reduce their fossil fuel emissions.

In addition, the RES includes an «energy transformation» requirement, known as Tier III, that tasks electric utilities to look for ways to reduce fossil fuel emissions (even where doing so may increase electric consumption).

We submitted our paper to an open - access «Discussion» journal (ACPD) in hopes of engaging the scientific and policy - making communities in an important conversation about the urgency of reducing fossil fuel emissions and the adequacy of current and proposed policies.

With action to reduce fossil fuel emissions and greenhouse gas emissions from other sources, the world can still realize the pathway that keeps warming well below 2.0 °C this century.

Reduced fossil fuel emissions are needed over the next few generations to limit ongoing ocean oxygen depletion and acidification and their long - term adverse effects».

First, accurately estimating the amount of carbon being sequestered and / or avoided in an agricultural practice is often more difficult and time consuming than in activities that reduce fossil fuel emissions.

As a result, the authors say, cohesive, unified action is required — now — to reduce fossil fuel emissions to pre-Industrial Era levels.