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Reduction of Petroleum Consumption

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Affordable and Clean Energy

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Petroleum is one of the major sources of energy in the world. Petroleum and its by-products are used to fuel various forms of transportation, industry, and domestic electricity use. It is also used to manufacture plastics which provide products essential for daily life. In addition, petroleum has helped in the creation of many products like cosmetics, tires (rubber), and pesticides. However, reducing petroleum consumption is vital due to the environmental effects accruing from its usage which are mainly negative in the long run. A major example is the toxicity of petroleum which contributes to air pollution, acid rain, and global warming and has been linked to be responsible for a number of illnesses in humans. Petroleum also facilitates climate change because of the increase in greenhouse gas emissions during its extraction, refinement, transport, and consumption phases.

Mitigationcan be referred to as an anthropogenic intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the...

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  1. Centre for Petroleum, Energy Economics and Law, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Busayo Temitope Olanrewaju

  2. Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (UI-LISA), Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Olusanya E. Olubusoye

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Olanrewaju, B.T., Olubusoye, O.E. (2020). Reduction of Petroleum Consumption. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Affordable and Clean Energy. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71057-0_26-1

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