Sentences with phrase «with fossil fuel consumption»

And of course wealth is correlated with fossil fuel consumption, because that's currently where we get most of our energy from.

China came in fifth with fossil fuel consumption subsidies totaling $ 19.24 billion, 63 percent covering oil and 37 percent covering electricity.

Not exact matches

That's a huge shortfall that needs to be met with a nutritional source that doesn't add to fossil fuel, fertilizer or pesticide use or place excessive demands on freshwater consumption.

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

The sad part is - there are several valid benefits from reducing the consumption of fossil fuels, that have nothing to do with climate change.

And that, they say, pales in comparison to the roughly 4,000 deaths that are associated with New York fossil fuel consumption each year, according to a 2012 study from Stanford and Cornell University engineers and scientists.

The EIA says world energy consumption is likely to grow by more than 50 percent over the period 2010 to 2040, with fossil fuels supplying 80 percent of the total, despite a growth in renewables and nuclear power.

World energy consumption is forecast to increase by 44 percent from 2006 to 2030, with almost two - thirds of that coming from developing countries and fossil fuels that continue to dominate energy supply, according to the Energy Information Administration's 2009 outlook report [pdf] released today.

Such data, combined with ground monitoring and inventories of fossil - fuel consumption, could be a powerful tool for pinpointing greenhouse - gas sources, says Kevin Gurney, a carbon biogeochemist at Arizona State University in Tempe.

But calculating the costs associated with premature death caused by air pollution is complex and has resulted in very different estimates: because of the different methodologies used, the cost of air pollution related to fossil fuel consumption is estimated to be three times higher in the US than the EU.

The announcement flew in the face of established economic wisdom, which has long assumed that economic growth is inextricably linked to rising fossil fuel consumption and with it, rising climate - changing carbon dioxide emissions.

«There's no doubt at all that the BLM leases significant areas for the production of fossil fuels, and there are certainly greenhouse gases associated with the production and consumption of those fuels,» Muller said, adding that federal government is trying to reduce some of those emissions.

(PS there are also emissions and energy consumption associated with fossil fuel energy supply outside the combustion of fuel, since power plants have to be built and run, etc.).

Meanwhile, the Earth's current population can easily be supported — and comfortably so — with a fraction of humanity's current «resource» consumption, and with zero fossil fuel use.

Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gases have been, and continue to be, emitted by the massive fossil fuel consumption of a tiny percentage of the Earth's human population, most of them in countries with low rates of population growth — and that the overwhelming majority of human beings on the Earth, particularly those in countries with relatively high rates of population growth, generate only a small amount of greenhouse gases.

Some commenters here have argued that the claim was made with the premise that all fossil fuel consumption would stop.

I reject the idea that it is somehow inappropriate to acknowledge that catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is not only possible but plausible if we continue with anything close to business as usual consumption of fossil fuels and the other activities that are contributing to ever - increasing GHG emissions.

Lovins claims regarding the contribution of NHRs to electricity consumption in China in 2013 must contend with the fact that the NHRs increased by only 9.4 million million tonnes of oil equivalent (mTOE) between 2012 - 2013 compared to 100 mTOE for fossil fuels.

«With the implementation of phase two, these five UH campuses will have reduced fossil fuel energy consumption by ~ 14 GWh annually (45 percent) and added ~ 13 GWh renewable energy generation.

What has Climategate got to do with Muller's acceptance of Al Gores profligate consumption of fossil fuels and his exaggerations and distortions, in furtherance of the cause?

Our modelling focuses on scenarios projecting how rapidly we can gain significant national fleet - wide reductions in fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions — with and without new PHEVs, conversions, other efficiencies, and low - carbon biofuels.

Anna Roggenbuck, Policy Officer at CEE Bankwatch Network, said: «With the decision to finance TANAP, the EIB has shown its disregard to Europe's commitments to climate change mitigation.This project has been approved without a proper climate impact assessment, and in contradiction to pledges under the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius which entails limiting fossil fuels consumption.»

Algeria, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and China ranked eighth, ninth and tenth in fossil fuel consumption subsidies, respectively, with subsidies totaling $ 20.2 billion (Algeria), $ 17.6 billion (UAE) and $ 17.4 billion (China).

Russia ranked third with $ 39.6 billion in fossil fuel consumption subsidies, 44 percent covering natural gas and 56 percent going to electricity.

With the recent steep fall in oil prices and associated declines in other energy prices, the stars are aligned for adopting a carbon tax on consumption of fossil fuels, Lawrence Summers, a former treasury secretary and presidential adviser, says in the Washington Post.

Indonesia's fossil fuel consumption subsidies totaled $ 27.7 billion in 2014 with oil receiving the most (70 percent) and electricity, 30 percent.

Oil is especially useful due to its portability (I don't expect coal - burning cars to come on the market any time soon), so I wouldn't expect the drop in oil consumption to be made up for with other lesser fossil fuels.

With a share of 100 % renewable energy sources and 12 times the current grid capacity, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants can be reduced to 15 % of the total annual electricity consumption, which represents the maximum possible benefit of transmission for Europe.

Internationally, the energy consumption of China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico will lead to a major global demand increase, which is likely to be met in large part from fossil fuels,» warning that the capacity to deal with these very substantial potential emissions «must urgently be developed.»

it marks a turning point in the climate movement; we are breaking free from fossil fuels, and bringing green infrastructure and climate - conscious economic practices to the forefront... decreasing our meat and dairy consumption, taking public transit, and supporting businesses with sustainable practices.

With the UN projections for population growth and assuming a 50 % increase in per capita fossil fuel consumption, we end up with around 600 ppmv CO2 by 2With the UN projections for population growth and assuming a 50 % increase in per capita fossil fuel consumption, we end up with around 600 ppmv CO2 by 2with around 600 ppmv CO2 by 2100.

August 18, 1981 memo from Exxon's Roger Cohen to Exxon's Werner Glass with comments about Glass» draft report on possible consequences of fossil fuel consumption out to 2030.

The advantages of using pelletized paper fuel include: a new use for discarded paper; reduction in the consumption of non-renewable fossil fuels; paper provides a higher level of heat generation; and because paper contains little Sulfur, its co-firing with coal reduces Sulfur emissions.

All solutions to peak oil and climate change start with reducing fossil fuel consumption.

Clearly that description is inconsistent with these generators increasing the consumption of fossil fuel.

Offshore oil and gas exploration have devastating impacts on the local environment and climate, and the continued extraction and consumption of fossil fuels is incompatible with the Paris agreement and limiting global warming below 1.5 °C.

Climate change advocates will see it as a way to curb the consumption of fossil fuels, in part by narrowing the competitive gap with renewables; their opponents will see such a tax as meeting a long - held conservative view that it is more growth - friendly to tax consumption rather than the proceeds of work and risk - taking, to be paired with environmentalists» agreement to substitute the tax for the EPA's regulations.

The tax breaks would be more than enough to keep consumption high and energy would gradually shift to other sources and more efficient technology while supplying the developing world with more fossil fuel.

Anyone familiar with the issue knows that the emissions from fossil fuel consumption contributes only 4 - 5 % of the total annual flux.

We need to be developing an alliance with what remains of the unionized labour movement: at a minimum to support the development of training programs for fossil fuel sector workers, and more ambitiously to support the emergence of an electable political ideology that calls for the transition away from capitalism intent on endless growth in consumption.

Simply improving messaging in accordance with recommendations of psychologists or following the recommendations of economists to create economic incentives to engage in less GHG producing behavior will not likely create strong citizen support for climate change policies unless citizens better understand that the narrative created by opponents of climate change policies about high levels of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable harm to the economy from the adoption of climate policies is not only false but has been manufactured by fossil fuel companies and other entities which have economic interests in continuing high levels of fossil fuel consumption.

Projections of total global energy consumption show that between 2004 and 2030, fossil fuels will provide the bulk of the increase, with nuclear and other sources providing relatively minor contributions in absolute terms (Figure 3 and Table 1).

Our representatives in Washington are certainly sharply divided in their views on which of these trends we should back and which ones we should try to stop — with a big block only excited about fossil fuels and another wanting to bet pretty much everything on cutting consumption and promoting new energy sources.

As countries attain higher standards of living, that has generally gone hand - in - hand with increasing consumption of fossil fuels.

The Zero Tool normalizes building performance by climate, space type, building size, occupancy, and schedule, allowing users to compare a new or existing building's fossil fuel energy consumption with other buildings.

In this analysis I use this data to argue that access to electricity and fossil fuel energy consumption improve life expectancy even with the negative impacts of particulate matter.

One of the key benefits associated with energy efficiency and renewable energy programs (clean energy) is that they reduce consumption of fossil fuel resources, and in doing so reduce fossil fuel - related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Also, will the marchers embarrass their cause with their usual display of conspicuous fossil fuel consumption?

The Mercer (1978) ``... a threat of disaster» paper introduced above was fraught with presumptions, guesswork, and spectacularly wrong predictions about the connections between fossil fuel consumption by humans and future carbon dioxide (CO2) parts per million (ppm) concentrations, the melting of polar ice sheets, and an impeding sea level rise disaster.

The report s author, Kevin Smith, said that The only effective way of dealing with climate change is to dramatically decrease our current rates of fossil fuel consumption.