Sentences with phrase «stopping new fossil fuel infrastructure»

Stopping new fossil fuel infrastructure development is essential, but not sufficient: we need more investment in better jobs, cleaner energy, and stronger communities.

He will also address the upcoming Earth Day holiday, and New York's need for 100 % clean energy by 2030, stopping all new fossil fuel infrastructure, and enacting a carbon tax.

Hawkins also said for Earth Day that New York should commit to 100 % clean energy by 2030, stop all new fossil fuel infrastructure and enact a carbon tax.

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There is an overlying awareness when assessing New York's environmentally progressive work - in - progress that the effects climate change and fossil fuel energy industries have on the environment, infrastructure and public health don't stop at state lines.

Please pick up the phone and call Governor Cuomo [phone] and urge him to veto Port Ambrose and stop building fossil fuel infrastructure for the health and security of New Yorkers.

The trick now for activists is to stop new fossil - fuel infrastructure, even when it is hard for a government to do so.

Mr. President, it is time to stop waffling and draw the line in the sand against fossil foolishness and «cease making large, long - term capital investments in new fossil fuel infrastructure that «locks in» dangerous emission levels for many decades.»

Whether it's pushing banks to stop project - level loans to pipelines, demanding insurance companies to stop underwriting fossil fuel infrastructure, or pressuring cities to stop using fossil fuel funded banking, «no new fossil fuel finance» is a driving movement strategy.

In October, 109 environmental groups wrote to the European Commission urging it to stop promoting and financially supporting the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure, including gas.

By prohibiting the development of any new fossil fuel infrastructure necessary to serve new leases, such as pipelines, in all coastal lands under the authority of the State Lands Commission, our state can stop this dangerous plan.

All the arguments are perfectly correct and accurate and by themselves enough to justify stopping many of these plans, but a far more important argument always lurks in the background: each of these new infrastructure projects is a way to extend the life of the fossil fuel era a few more disastrous decades.

Limiting global atmospheric CO2 concentrations to or below 450 ppm would require that we stop building new fossil fuel infrastructure in the next several years and significantly reduce energy demand over the next few decades.