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Times Phasing out fossil fuel by end of next decade forecast to eliminate $ 22bn of losses More than half of...
Not exact matches
It's interesting that you keep pushing geoengineering while at the same
time disparaging, rejecting, ignoring and otherwise expressing extreme negativity towards the multiple, readily implementable plans that have been put forward by multiple independent organizations and academic researchers, as well as government agencies, for rapidly
phasing out CO2 emissions from
fossil fuels using benign technologies that we have at hand now.
Maybe we can deploy a technical fix, something that will buy us enough
time to
phase out fossil fuels, without crashing civilization in the process.
The Australian government's Energy White Paper [x] plans to facilitate the expansion of
fossil fuel mining and export industries at a
time when they must be
phased out as fast as possible.
Morris also suggests an additional target:
Phase out implicit
fossil fuel subsidies by imposing energy taxes that reflect external costs, which has benefits 8
times their costs.
The most the G20 gathering could manage this
time around on the climate front was a solemn nodding of the heads when Obama suggested that it would be a great idea if they
phased out subsidies for
fossil fuels.
This sentiment has been ratified, sanctified and tallied by the political, moral and financial bellwethers of our
time from Paris (195 countries committing to
phase out fossil fuels this century) to the Vatican (the Pope's moral invocations to drastically reduce use of
fossil fuels), to the Bank of England (governor Mark Carney's prudent warnings not to get stuck holding a bag of stranded
fossil fuel assets).
The short
time scale to
phase out fossil fuels requires prompt and ambitious action.
The underlying conclusion of the report is that the
time has arrived for taking the necessary steps to preserve livable conditions on earth: as quickly as possible, we must stop burning
fossil fuels, aiming for a complete
phase -
out by around 2050.
Phasing Out Subsidies Considered For A While Addressing the market - distorting and environmentally detrimental effect of
fossil fuel subsidies has been on the table for some
time.
I think that this is of a piece with your discussion of a 50 - 100 year
time frame for
phasing out fossil fuel use.
This sentiment has been ratified, sanctified, and tallied by the political, moral, and financial bellwethers of our
time, from the Paris climate talks (195 countries committed to
phase out fossil fuels this century) to the vatican (Pope Francis has made moral invocations to drastically reduce use of
fossil fuels in the encyclical Laudato Si») to the Bank of England (the bank's governor Mark Carney has warned not to get stuck holding a bag of stranded
fossil fuel assets).