Sentences with phrase «uses of fossil»

We call for a substantial improvement in energy efficiency; and electrification of the global vehicle fleet and all other downstream uses of fossil fuels.

If there are not, humans should not agree to give up any uses of fossil fuels, or waste time and resources on efforts to bring this about.

Thus countries that have been reducing their reliance on fossil fuels for some time will probably have eliminated the least efficient uses of fossil fuels first.

«Sure, sell your dreams of space flight to the super-rich if you must... but let's not keep up the pretence that it isn't one of the most extravagant and self - centered uses of fossil fuel imaginable.»

On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.

Climate change, driven by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.

That means making sure prices cover not only the direct costs of supplying energy but also the environmental externalities associated with production and use of fossil fuels — the waste water (which increases a variety of risks), and the broader side effects from vehicle use — congested roads, traffic deaths, and so on.

Why also is eco-friendly British Columbia, home of a provincial carbon tax designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels, being such a willing conduit for transporting US coal to Asian markets?

The emergence of this new technology was truly innovative and provided alternatives to the heavy use of fossil fuels.

This is related to a shift to organic farming that greatly reduces the use of fossil energy in pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.

It means the more rapid use of fossil fuels, the more rapid exploitation of forests, soils, and oceans, the greater pollution of the atmosphere.

Meanwhile the continuing use of fossil fuels has caused changes in global weather patterns.

Others take steps in this direction, but Soleri shows us the goal of an attractive city that can operate with very little use of fossil fuel.

The problem is aggravated by a model of development based on the intensive use of fossil fuels, which is at the heart of the worldwide energy system.

For example, the growth of secondary industries and their use of fossil fuels has led to the imminent exhaustion of fossil fuels and the pollution of the atmosphere with excess carbon dioxide and other gases.

Even in what I am sketching as an ecological civilization there would, thus, be some use of fossil fuels.

In addition to carbon dioxide there are other disruptive products from the use of fossil fuels such as the nitrogen oxides that have already been referred to.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from the use of fossil fuels are estimated to have to be reduced by 75 to 80 per cent.

The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

By far the most important source of disruption of the environment comes from the use of fossil fuels for energy.

Small increases per person can have an enormous effect when multiplied by huge numbers of people, as for example in China and India, if, as they propose, they increase their use of fossil fuels in the near future.

This means that the use of fossil fuels must be reduced by 75 per cent.

Buying locally creates jobs, reduces use of fossil fuels and helps the environment.

«The quantities of methane produced by anaerobic digestion can diminish or even completely replace the use of fossil fuels in the production process,» says Mike Bambridge.

Closed anaerobic reactors generate large quantities of methane (CH4) from the organic materials in the wastewater that can diminish or even completely replace the use of fossil fuels in the production process.

Groups such as Friends of the Earth warn the UK can not «plant its way out» of climate change but instead must reduce its use of fossil fuels.

Denmark is on course to wean itself off the use of fossil fuels by 2050, according to a senior adviser at the Danish Industry Association, Hans Peter Slente.

SHARE co-chair Mert Simpson told The Alt that the organization has had discussions with Assembly members McDonald and Fahy about halting the use of fossil fuels in the project, leading them to bring the issue to the Assembly.

«This is about «bridge energy»,» Fahy said, referring to the transitional or intermittent use of fossil fuels such as natural gas to reach renewable energy goals.

As the planet has continued to expand its use of fossil fuel and bring a Western lifestyle to all, the collateral damage has accumulated.

The groups say it is imperative that the state immediately halt any investments in the future use of fossil fuels, including natural gas.

And it also means that he has to stop supporting the use of fossil fuels, including his idea to spend perhaps a hundred million dollars to expand the gas plant that is heating the Empire State Plaza and lock in gas emissions into a low - income people - of - color community for the next 30 years in the Arbor Hill area.»

Cuomo's plan, released a couple of years ago, would cut the use of fossil fuels for electricity in the state in half by 2030, but does not apply those same goals to other carbon emmissions.

Perry breezed through his confirmation hearing without serious challenge from either side of the aisle, although Sen. Bernard Sanders, I - Vt., unsuccessfully pressed him to support curtailing the use of fossil fuels in order to reduce global warming.

«It's clear to me that no technology will do more than nuclear to reduce our use of fossil fuels.»

We are trying to reduce the use of fossil fuels, and we are trying to do what we can to ultimately ensure that we have clean green energy in this country.

In addition, however, agriculture's use of fossil energy could be reduced as a mitigation step, Rice said: «When we make agriculture more efficient and use less tillage, we're also using less energy.

The September report raised the probability that human actions, led by the use of fossil fuels, are the main cause of climate change since 1950 to at least 95 percent from 90.

«There is a danger in believing that land carbon sinks can solve the problem of atmospheric carbon emissions because this legitimises the ongoing use of fossil fuels,» Professor Mackey said.

The position paper on air pollution and cardiovascular disease was written by experts from the European Society of Cardiology and also recommends decreasing the use of fossil fuels.

Aggressive measures to curtail the use of fossil fuels and emissions of so - called short - lived climate pollutants such as soot, methane and HFCs would need to be accompanied by active efforts to extract CO2 from the air and sequester it before it can be emitted.

You can't turn an ocean liner on a dime, and in their view, it will take a complete about - face in society's profligate use of fossil fuels to avert a catastrophe.

Around 60 to 70 more would need to buy an electric vehicle for the utility to meet its goal under the renewable energy standard to reduce the use of fossil fuels, he said.

«The government is spending around $ 4 billion in subsidies to promote the use of fossil fuels — that is to say we are spending billions to promote global warming and acid rain,» says MacNeill.

Global surface temperatures in 2016 averaged 14.8 degrees Celsius (58.64 °F), or 1.3 C (2.3 F) higher than estimated before the Industrial Revolution ushered in wide use of fossil fuels, the EU body said.

«It is important for us to understand this, so that we can design new materials, for example, to build better or more efficient solar cells, or make better and more economical use of fossil fuels,» Elmlund said.

This is the rise in air temperature expected by the year 2040, if current trends in the use of fossil fuels and forest - burning continue.

The earths heat is just a few KM's further down than coal and oil, does nt the use of fossil fuels seem stupid by comparison?

A U.N. panel of climate scientists predicts that a build - up of planet - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mainly from human use of fossil fuels, will cause ever more droughts, floods, heatwaves and rising sea levels.

Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann called it «an interesting study from highly respected climate researchers» that highlights the need to reduce the use of fossil fuels quickly.