South Africa takes climate change and the need to reduce fossil fuel emissions extremely seriously.
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So the real solution is still cutting down fossil fuel emissions and investing in alternative energies.
Growth in the world economy, increased fossil fuel emissions since 2000 and a decline in the efficiency of the ocean and land 'sinks' to absorb carbon emissions.
The Anthropocene's equivalent of iridium is nitrogen - although there will be other candidates (such as heavy metals, and carbon isotope ratios characteristic of fossil fuel emissions) for geochemists of the far future to identify as the chemical signature of the new epoch's dawn.
The agency document emphasizes the potential for self-driving cars to reduce highway accidents and deaths, and reduce fossil-fuel emissions.
On average, in the past decade, fossil-fuel emissions grew at about three times the rate of growth in the nineteen-nineties.
Some see the reduction of fossil fuel usage or carbon emissions as the most important goal.
According to early estimates by the International Energy Agency (IEA), global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion reached a record high of 31.6 gigatons in 2011, a 3.2 percent increase over 2010.
Operating through permitting authority asserted under auspices of its Clean Air Act, the agency will now have a major say in the design of every major project in which fossil fuel is combusted or CO2 emissions are released.
Yet burning a tonne of palm oil instead of fossil fuel saves only three tonnes of emissions.
The bill also sets rules for building more natural-gas storage (as imports replace dwindling domestic supplies) and for developing technology to capture and sequester carbon emissions from fossil-fuel plants.
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Shuttering even one U.S. nuclear power plant could unleash massive carbon emissions if fossil-fuel plants were used to make up the lost power, according to a new study released this weekend by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
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The use of renewable energy sources will decrease the Army's fossil fuel consumption, while lowering greenhouse gas emissions and creating a more assured energy supply.
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Carbon Tracker has been campaigning for regulators to force firms to disclose the potential CO2 emissions embedded in their fossil fuel reserves, in order to inform potential investors.
The Navy chooses to ignore two RAND studies, a report by the National Academy of Sciences, a report by the German Academy of Sciences, and a raft of recent lifecycle analyses that all indicate that biofuels accelerate fossil fuel use, have higher lifecycle GHG emissions, and increase environmental damage.
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The authors say the current fossil fuel business model assumes that there are no emissions limits.
High efficiency engines help conserve fossil fuels and reduce emissions by consuming less fuel while generating an equivalent amount of power.
The better way would be through some sort of carbon tax, which would penalise fossil fuels but not any fuel free of carbon emissions, whether nuclear power or renewables.
Study after study has pegged energy efficiency as the lowest-cost way to curb fossil-fuel consumption and the resulting greenhouse-gas emissions.
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The price of solar power still has far to fall before it is cheaper than electricity generated from fossil fuels even if governments jack up fossil-fuel prices to reflect the cost of carbon emissions.
Turning fossil-fuel plants on and off adds inefficiencies, producing carbon emissions just to heat up boilers before energy production can begin.
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And they argue that simplistic comparisons with other electricity sources are unfair: fossil-fuel plants pay too little for their planet-warming carbon emissions, while renewables benefit from generous subsidies.
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Fossil fuel companies do not take into account the external effect of the cost of pollution or carbon emissions.
The increase in domestic fossil fuel supplies will likely postpone our focus on grappling with the tough issues relating to global carbon emissions.
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And if all fossil-fuel power plants were converted to nuclear or hydro-electric power, a 35% reduction in emissions would result.
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