Fossil fuels

Testing the Limits of Fossil Fuels

Biofuels come in two forms biodiesel used as a fossil fuel diesel substitute and bioethanol used as a fossil fuel gasoline substitute.

Escaping the Fossil Fuel Trap

Many Parties presented estimated reserves of fossil fuels and or non fossil fuel energy sources.

Of course, fossil fuels brought their own environmental problems.

Divest in a Better Future

Setting the long term goal to get off fossil fuels

Steam reforming Fossil fuels are the dominant source of industrial hydrogen.

But providing energy to all will require governments to discontinue subsidies for fossil fuels and unsustainable agriculture.

Biomass and fossil fuels remain the main forms of energy used in non Annex I Parties.

Fossil fuel subsidies have the opposite effect.

Fossil fuel and water subsidies have contributed to both problems.

The shift away from fossil fuels will not be easy.

The Commission believes that over the next four decades, fossil fuel costs will climb sharply, because sources will dry up and governments will place massive taxes on fossil fuels.

After energy efficiency , add , advanced fossil fuel technology .

But oil prices do not reflect the true costs of fossil fuel consumption.

Burning fossil fuels is having a measurable impact on the earth s temperature.

The price of fossil fuels, however, is likely to continue to trend upward.

The switch to fossil fuels has also had tremendous environmental benefits.

The purpose of the project is to make the FAA less reliant on fossil fuels.

Loss of natural coastal environments is one of the most serious consequences of tourism development The operation of tourism facilities leading to the use of non renewable or precious resources such as freshwater and fossil fuels and the generation of pollutants and waste.

Ending our reliance on fossil fuels requires a complete transformation of the world s energy systems.

In these cases, the fossil fuel is partially oxidized, for instance in a gasifier.

Biofuels offer some 60 per cent carbon dioxide saving on their fossil fuel equivalents.

In any event, natural gas, though somewhat less carbon intensive than coal, is a fossil fuel burning it will cause unacceptable climate damage.

What is stoppable is the steep rise in Asia s reliance on fossil fuels.

The United States spends heavily to subsidize gasoline and other fossil fuels.

This same short term thinking characterizes the world s dependence on fossil fuels.

The benefits of fossil fuels must be weighed against the costs of global warming.

The 1973 oil crisis strengthened Sweden's commitment to decrease dependence on imported fossil fuels.

The majority of fossil fuel usage for the generation of electricity was coal and gas.

It is a potential means of mitigating the contribution of fossil fuel emissions to global warming and ocean acidification.

Regardless, fossil fuels will remain an important part of the global energy mix for the foreseeable future, and it is thus critical that fossil energy technologies continue to evolve towards cleaner, more efficient and less carbon intensive systems.

Indeed, their contribution to rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere is beginning to overshadow the other problems.

Given that SWFs primary objective is to transfer wealth to future generations, their high level of exposure to fossil fuel markets is unsustainable.

The momentous move toward fossil fuels has done a lot of good.

One of the primary measures to be taken to address climate change encompasses reducing the utilization of fossil fuels and combating desertification.

On the other hand, the abundance of fossil fuel energy in some member countries has encouraged unsustainable production and consumption patterns that have an adverse impact on the environment.

Given that fossil fuels contribute to global warming, standard economic theory suggests we should tax them according to their cumulative negative effects.

It has the power, potentially, to replace our fossil fuels, to revolutionize medicine, and to touch every aspect of our daily lives.

Some two thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change trace back to fossil fuel use.

The target should be full elimination of all fossil fuel subsidies by 2020.

PRAGUE Many today believe that renewable energy will let us get off fossil fuels soon.

When green renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, they will take over the world.