Sentences with phrase «years of rapid growth fueled»

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

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JOHANNESBURG — Years of rapid economic growth across sub-Saharan Africa fueled hopes of a prosperous new era.

For over fifteen years, rapid Chinese growth and industrialization brought a tremendous amount of demand for fossil fuels and metals around the globe.

The sink swallowed up roughly 0.77 gigaton of carbon per year, persisting despite a significant increase in biomass burning emissions that occurred during the dry season of 2011, fueled by the rapid growth of vegetation that year.

Specifically, Mercer claimed that atmospheric CO2 concentrations would double from ~ 330 parts per million (late 1970s) to ~ 660 ppm within 50 years, or by 2028 — due to a continuance of the rapid growth in fossil fuel consumption.

Clinical trials have become increasingly costly in recent years, fuelled by rapid technological innovation, growth of data science and larger trial sizes.