Sentences with phrase «to reduce fossil fuel use»

Conventional controls are much less expensive and much more certain to be effective than attempting to reduce fossil fuel use in order to reduce conventional pollution.
However, we also save money in terms of reduced fossil fuel use.
We can drastically reduce fossil fuel use through aggressive R&D programs and policy support for low carbon solutions.
This will help reduce fossil fuel use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improving the overall health and happiness of the planet.
Then, we discuss climate change and the complexities of reducing fossil fuel use with environmentalist Bill McKibben.
Slowing the rate of global warming means reducing fossil fuel use and halting tropical deforestation; that will give people more time to adapt to our destabilized climate, «using whatever means available.»
Wind energy will be an important player in cleaning electricity grids in Alberta and Saskatchewan and across Canada clean electricity grids will be needed for reducing fossil fuel use in other sectors through electrification and in the United States through clean energy exports.
Whether all this is worthwhile ultimately hinges on whether there are sufficient benefits from reducing fossil fuel use to make it worthwhile to give up the many uses humans have found for them.
The price of electricity rose by more than 20 percent in 2012 and 2013, but then stabilized and even declined slightly as consumers reduced fossil fuel use.
«There is still time to avoid most of this warming and get to a stable climate by the end of this century, but in order to do that, we have to aggressively reduce our fossil fuel use and emissions of greenhouse gas pollutants.»
And that is where the whole thing becomes politicised because only the command and control of government can make businesses reduce their fossil fuel use.
A small enough population would be capable of massively reducing fossil fuel use (only in theory note), and would guarantee a long life on this planet and with a reasonably decent level of technology.
Retrofits will speed plug - in market penetration beyond new cars; even «partially electrified» vehicles will significantly reduce fossil fuel use.
The news comes hard on the heels of a study that suggests that, in carbon budget terms, it could be possible to contain global warming to the level «well below 2 °C» above pre-industrial levels, agreed at the Paris Summit by almost 200 nations in 2015, provided nations immediately start reducing fossil fuel use to zero within 40 years.
Burlington Electric is offering this incentive as part of its effort to meet the Tier III requirements of Vermont's RES, which supports utility programs that help customers reduce fossil fuel use in the heating and transportation sectors..
EVs reduce fossil fuel use and may save money on fuel and maintenance costs compared to conventional gasoline - powered vehicles.
If you don't see a need to reduce fossil Fuel use then the economics will never Pencil out.
Solar lanterns are already making some headway in India's poorest areas, and a new study suggests they could be a bigger part of the effort to reduce fossil fuel use while improving lives.
All of the nations but two (Syria and the US) are deeply committed to drastically reducing fossil fuel use in the next few decades based on recommendations from science.
As explained previously, the best current science shows that there are no significant reductions in global temperatures that would result from reducing fossil fuel use, let alone CAGW.
A U.S. - based group of forward - thinking architects and engineers has set forth the Architecture 2030 Challenge, with the goal of reducing fossil fuel use in new buildings 80 percent by 2020 on the way to going entirely carbon - neutral by 2030.
The hoax was timed to coincide with the opening of a major United Nations climate summit in Bali in an effort to expose the disproportionate influence of large corporations on the climate negotiations and the lack of initiative from corporations on reducing fossil fuel use.
CST represents Global Water Engineering (GWE) technologies in Australia that are at the forefront of waste - to - energy initiatives, cleverly turning a problem, wastewater, into a profit, biogas, which can be used to power boilers, reduce fossil fuel use and converted to electricity.
Like all Green Toys products, our Tea Set is made from eco-friendly materials, helping to reduce fossil fuel use and CO2 emissions, all in the name of Good Green...
- Reducing fossil fuel use and CO2 emissions is part of the recipe for aspiring gourmets who use the Green Toys Chef Set.
«Reducing fossil fuel use is a precondition for stabilizing the climate, but we also need to make use of a range of options from reforestation on degraded land to low - till agriculture and from efficient irrigation systems to limiting food waste.»
Properly situated, vertical farms could eliminate the need for long - distance crop transport and refrigeration, reducing fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions.
The Department of Energy's pages on bioenergy and wind energy as well as transportation have both reduced their mentions of greenhouse gas emissions and reducing fossil fuel use in favor of language more geared toward jobs and energy independence.
Any business that reduces fossil fuel use «too soon» (before they can recover the cost or profit from the change) is at a competitive disadvantage.
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