Population growth, industrialisation worldwide and the consequent increase in the use of fossil fuels such as petroleum contribute to the advancement of environmental damage. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, which contributes to an increase in the earth's greenhouse effect and climatic change (Balat & Balat, 2010). Factors such as increased demand for ener...

The policy instruments for emissions reductions will be an integral part of a PostKyoto Climate Regime. Using the CGE model DART, we compare a harmonized international carbon tax to a cap-and-trade system with different emission caps. The carbon tax tends to favor industrialized countries while e.g. emissions trading under the “contraction and convergence” approach with converging per capita em...

The United States’ primary transportation energy sources are fossil fuels, namely, gasoline and diesel. These products have high environmental, security, and financial costs. A strong emphasis has been placed on biofuels, especially ethanol and biodiesel, to lessen the United States’ reliance on fossil fuels. Historically, high production costs, lack of infrastructure, return on investment anxi...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas that is customarily released to the environment during the usage of fossil fuels, including electric power generation. With the projected increase in consumption and demand for fossil fuels, CO2 emissions will correspondingly increase in the absence of any capture/sequestration strategy. In view that CO2 is a greenhouse gas with the potential to contribu...

Different quality, reserves and production force countries to import fossil fuels to advance their economic development. It is exergy of fossil fuels that is essentially important to economy. Thus, it forms an international exergy flow network embodied in the global fossil energy trade. Based on complex network theory, we built a global fossil energy exergy flow network with countries as nodes,...

‘Biofuels’ is a broad term that includes the lowest technology, older fuels as well as some of the newest, highest tech fuels. In contrast to “fossil fuels” that were created millions of years ago, biofuels are “contemporary” materials such as wood, charcoal, and crop and animal waste, all of which are in wide use today throughout the developing world, where they expose their users to highly el...

The direct association between air pollution and morbidity and mortality rates has been proved. This major environmental risk factor has been mainly due to extensive use of fossil fuels. Increasing pollution caused by fossil fuels can threaten human health. This study simulated the effect of green taxes on Iran’s health indicators, i.e., mortality and morbidity. We used a Computable General Equ...

The world's increasingly voracious appetite for fossil fuels is driven by fast-growing populations and ever-rising aspirations for the lifestyles and standard of living exemplified in the developed world. Forecasts for higher electricity consumption, more comfortable living environments (via heating or cooling) and greater demand for transport fuels are well known. Similar growth in demand is p...

To stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at an equivalent doubling, CO2 emissions must be limited to 5 PgC y in 2050, compared to 8 PgC y today. This will require the decarbonization of world energy supply, in which fossil fuels, which today account for 85% of energy supply, are replaced by carbon-free sources. Only five sources are capable of supplying a substantial fraction of the required ...

Petroleum prices are increasing day by day and for fueling we are completely dependent on the fossil fuels. Sources of fossil fuels are depleting continuously due to the increasing demand of petroleum products. Renewable carbon neutral transport fuels are necessary for environmental and economic sustainability. There are many options in this area, but unlike solar, nuclear, and fossil fuels, bi...