Sentences with phrase «without fuelling climate change»

The report, Energy Revolution: A Sustainable World Energy Outlook, provided a «roadmap» for meeting future energy needs without fuelling climate change, said Sven Teske from Greenpeace International.

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Scientists have shown that most existing fossil fuel reserves can not be burned without causing dangerous climate change.

Cox also speculated whether Steyer prodded Schneiderman to launch the Exxon probe, which seeks to determine if the oil behemoth violated consumer - protection laws by selling fossil fuels without disclosing its effect on climate change.

«We live in an era during which it has become clear that we can not burn all of the fossil fuels without causing dangerous climate change,» the letter, seen by Reuters, said.

At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.

The most important point is that fossil fuel costs will continue to grow in the years to come, with or without climate change legislation.

Artificial photosynthesis offers the promise of producing liquid fuels that are renewable and can be used without exacerbating global climate change.

Without our use of fossil fuels, we should be descending into another glacial maximum — albeit slowly, over tens of thousands of years (the pace of natural global climate change in the Pleistocene).

you seem to refer to two very different problems: the possible fading of the industrial society because we don't have a good alternative to fossil fuels (which would happen even without GH effect), and the threat of a climate change (which could happen even if we found an alternative to fossil fuels, if there are in very large amount and we are too late to replace them).

Many believe the world won't be able to stop drastic climate change without a technology for curbing emissions from the cheapest, most - carbon intensive fuel.

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.»

«Without urgent action, the expansion of logging operations and the spread of wildfires fuelled by human - induced climate change mean that tropical forests are likely to become increasingly degraded, conserving only a fraction of the breath - taking diversity they once harboured.»

The basic facts of climate change are grim: 80 % of fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground for us to stay below 2 °C * of warming and fossil fuel companies aren't going to do that without a fight.

Without the exaggerated alarm conjured from overly pessimistic climate model projections of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, fossil fuels — coal, oil, gas — would regain their image as the celebrated agents of prosperity that they are, rather than being labeled as pernicious agents of our destruction.

The Madhouse Effect also pinpoints where these denialist talking points often originate, detailing many of the fossil fuel front groups whose representatives frequently mislead about climate change in major print and TV media without disclosing their glaring conflicts of interest.

The latest study is part of a wider shift in approach by urban planners and civic authorities to seek ways to mitigate the climate change driven by ever more profligate consumption of fossil fuels, without actually adding to this consumption by installing ever more air conditioning plant.

Although overall crop harvests have increased in the face of greenhouse gas - fueled warming, the study showed that climate change has left wheat down 5.5 % and corn 4 %, compared to what would have happened without global warming.

Energy and Climate Change secretary Ed Davey says these proposals are «a radical shift» away from old policies of «tinkering at the edges» without tackling fuel poverty's root causes — homes that are too energy inefficient to be kept warm on a budget.

It must always be repeated that the clean energy revolution can't prevent catastrophic climate change without far more aggressive government policies to speed the transition off fossil fuels.

The commentary, published in the British scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, estimated the impact of consuming the fuel from oilsands deposits â $» without factoring in greenhouse gas emissions associated with extraction and production â $» would be far less harmful to the planet's atmosphere than consuming all of the world's coal resources.

«In spite of these efforts, and in light of the hazards that are here and worsening, Plaintiffs are spending, and must continue to spend, millions of dollars to protect their property and residents from the impacts of climate change... Despite receiving the warning that «fossil fuel use should not be encouraged,» Defendants spent decades selling and promoting fossil fuels without disclosing the dangers that continued fossil fuel over-use posed.»

Without a functional democracy, there can be no federal role in responding to voter demand, not only for a clean energy economy that is less dependent on fossil fuels, but also for clean air, water, large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and a robust federal climate change science program.

Under the same grant the contrarian scientist also published two papers questioning whether climate change was dangerous for polar bears and whether the Arctic was warming, without disclosing the fossil fuel companies that funded his work.

So even without accounting for climate change, in most cases fossil fuels cost more than they're worth.