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But China will also face challenges as it moves from fossil fuels to renewables within a changing global resource sector.
At the same time, contrary to Trump’s relentless promotion of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), the public favors investments in renewable energy and remaining in the Paris climate agreement.
Most CO2 emissions result from the burning of fossil fuels – coal, oil, and natural gas – for energy, global consumption of which is rising as the world economy grows.
Yet changing the world’s energy system is a daunting challenge, because fossil fuels are so deeply embedded in the workings of the global economy.
The first is to shift massively from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, especially wind power and solar power.
Even the one factor that has effectively increased disposable incomes and augmented demand – sharply declining commodity prices, particularly for fossil fuels – is ultimately problematic.
On the other hand, economic growth below the sum of growth in the working population and the labor-saving part of technological change fuels unemployment.
As a result, by 2020, China’s consumption of energy generated from sources other than fossil fuels will be roughly equivalent to Japan’s total energy consumption.
G-20 governments are estimated to spend $88 billion per year on exploration subsidies for new fossil fuels.
First and foremost, world leaders must commit to phasing out fossil fuels, with the explicit goal of leaving 90% of proven coal reserves, one-third of oil reserves, and half of gas reserves in the ground.
It is time to reform our perverse global energy system – beginning by resolving to leave coal and other fossil fuels where they are.
Cutting emissions now is much more expensive, because there are few, expensive alternatives to fossil fuels.
Taxing fossil fuels to reduce carbon emissions is a sensible part of the solution to climate change, but it is not the only or best way to prevent warming.
It can be eliminated with cleaner fuels and new cooking technologies.
This flight fuels a broader sense of fear and uncertainty among everyone from investors to employees, which is reinforced as it becomes apparent that the CEO isn’t fulfilling promises made during the interview process.
Instead, the world should be focusing its efforts on making non-polluting energy sources cheaper than fossil fuels.
Without this kind of concerted effort, alternative technologies simply will not be ready to take up the slack from fossil fuels.
They also know that such action fuels radicalism, leading to the kind of tragic consequences that are all too familiar nowadays.
Your lungs are likely to be filled with indoor air pollution, because, like 2.7 billion others, you cook and keep warm with fuels like dung and wood – with the same effect as smoking two packs of cigarettes every day.
Excess capacity fuels downward pressure on prices, with negative externalities on indebted firms, which experience an increase in their real (inflation-adjusted) leverage.
Some have no particular resources and build thermal power plants or import expensive liquid fuels to meet their needs.
Without the development of reserves, countries will need to revert to liquid fuels, at higher cost and larger carbon dioxide emissions.
Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels carry a hefty price.
EU countries subsidized bio-fuels production with €3.7 billion in 2006, and intend to cover 8% of their motor fuels from biological sources by 2015 and 20% by 2020.
The Kyoto Protocol allows countries to meet their target reductions of CO2 emissions by substituting bio-fuels for fossil fuels.
To be sure, in addition to the negative storage effect, there might be a positive effect on the world climate insofar as bio-fuels may replace fossil fuels for combustion processes.
World market prices of fossil fuels will simply be lower than they otherwise would be such that total consumption of fossil and bio-fuels rises by the extra production of bio-fuel.
It makes no sense to use land in whatever form to produce bio fuels.
These are the taxes that governments already levy on electricity and fossil fuels.
Tax rates on different fuels vary by more than 50% across the EU, causing major distortions in the single market.
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