Sentences with phrase «unburned fossil»

Carbon dioxide emissions associated with burning coal are the greatest of any fossil fuel, and coal has the highest carbon content among all unburned fossil fuel reserves.

A study by HSBC, a large British bank, found an immense threat to global financial stability from stranding unburned fossil fuels.

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In its response, Exxon denied that global society possesses the will to keep temperatures from increasing by more than two degrees Celsius, and therefore none of the fossil fuel reserves currently counted as assets will be left unburned.

World governments must get used to the idea of leaving fossil fuel reserves in the ground unexploited and unburned, one of the world's most senior diplomats has said, ahead of...

In a literally world - changing deal that was almost unthinkable just a year ago, some two hundred leading nations unanimously embraced a plan that will leave most of the world's fossil fuels unburned.

Merkley's figure exceeds an estimate from the International Energy Agency that two - thirds of identifiable fossil fuels need to be unburned.

Second, as the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change points out, divesting from the fossil - fuel industry acknowledges the fact that the majority of known fossil - fuel reserves must be left unburned if we are to avoid catastrophic climate disruption.

One of the hard parts about fighting CO2 emissions, vs. all the other emissions we have tackled in the past (NOx, SOx, soot / particulates, unburned hydrocarbons, etc), is that we simply don't know how to combust fossil fuels without creating CO2 — CO2 is inherent to the base chemical reaction of the combustion.

All other fossil - fuel emissions represent unburned hydrocarbons, the technology for capturing which has improved by leaps and bounds in the past few decades.