Sentences with phrase «ban new climate»

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-14/bylong-mine-in-upper-hunter-to-proceed-despite-threat-to-water/9748574?section=environment Please sign the NSW No More Bad Investments (NMBI) petition to ban all new climate - damaging projects in NSW: https://www.cedamia.org/nsw-nmbi-sign/ #ClimateEmergencyDeclaration #ClimateSolutions #NoMoreBadInvestments #ClimateJustice... See more

But it would be a powerful demonstration that governments can ban new climate - damaging projects and refuse to make new fosil fuel export agreements on climate - ethical grounds.

Environmental Justice Australia has drafted model No More Bad Investments (NMBI) legislation (downloadable from this page) which state / territory governments could implement in order to ban new climate - damaging projects.

They can ban new climate - damaging projects, such as new onshore fossil fuel projects, but they have very limited ability to control offshore oil and gas projects in Commonwealth waters.

The NMBI public forum discussed model legislation to ban new climate - damaging projects in SA, why that is urgently necessary, and the implications of doing so.

Federal, state, and territory governments have the power to not only ban all new climate - damaging projects within their jurisdictions, but also to channel resources into researching and implementing the best climate - safe and climate - positive alternatives.

See the state / territory campaign page to download hardcopy sheets for the petition asking the SA Government to ban all new climate - damaging projects, such as all new coal, oil, and gas projects.

By banning new climate - damaging projects SA would be demonstrating climate - related «duty of care», making it easier for other states and territories to do the same.more...

By banning new climate - damaging projects NSW would be demonstrating climate - related «duty of care», making it easier for other states and territories to do the same.more...

By banning new climate - damaging projects Queensland would be demonstrating climate - related «duty of care», making it easier for other states and territories to do the same.more...

Banning NEW climate - damaging projects before they start is relatively easy compared with phasing out existing sources of carbon emissions.more...

The talking points below delve into some of the implications of banning new climate - damaging projects in Queensland.

The talking points below delve into some of the implications of banning new climate - damaging projects in South Australia.

By banning new climate - damaging projects Victoria would be demonstrating climate - related «duty of care», making it easier for other states and territories to do the same.more...

The talking points below delve into some of the implications of banning new climate - damaging projects in Victoria.

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Exxon is now the world's biggest fracker, a practice New York State banned after a decade of organizing around health and climate impacts.

«Together, we have won more than just a ban — today, we have a strong movement that must now use our people power to win the transition to 100 % renewable energy for New York by 2030 in order to fight climate change.»

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) vowed that the coalition of Democratic state officials would continue to oppose President TrumpDonald John TrumpMexican presidential candidate vows to fire back at Trump's «offensive» tweets Elizabeth Warren urges grads to fight for «what is decent» in current political climate Jim Carrey takes aim at Kent State grad who posed with AR - 10 MORE's efforts to ban travel from nations the administration says do not meet information - sharing requirements, calling the ban «discriminatory.»

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

The only candidate that will ban fracking, fight for a $ 15 minimum wage and fairness for the 99 %, while focusing on New York becoming a world leader in climate action by going to 100 % clean energy by 2030 which will create millions of jobs.»

Speaking before a group that included dozens of union workers at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Pelosi ripped President Donald Trump over his policies on health care, his travel ban and decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate accord.

There are mixed signs of success: the out - of - school discipline bans are associated with a 20 percent drop in suspensions across the country from school year 2011 - 12 to 2013 - 14, [1] but quick shifts in discipline policy have also had adverse effects such as high teacher turnover in Washington state, deteriorating school climate in New York, [2] or lower academic achievement for some students without prior suspensions in Philadelphia.

Updated, Nov. 25, 10:41 a.m. Ruth Teichroeb, the communications officer for Oceans North: Protecting Life in the Arctic, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts, sent a note this evening about new steps related to an issue I've covered here before — the rare and welcome proactive work by Arctic nations to ban fishing in the central Arctic Ocean ahead of the «big melt» as summer sea ice retreats more in summers in a human - heated climate.

* 1: Kathleen Maltzahn (Grn) platform includes: a ban on all new climate - damaging projects in Victoria as soon as safe - climate alternatives are available

I support a legislative ban in Victoria on all new projects that contribute to global warming, applicable immediately in sectors where climate - safe alternatives are available.

-- Bans on all new climate - damaging projects and support for climate - positive projects, with particular focus on state and territory governments

Accordingly, by far the easiest and most obvious component of climate emergency action at the state / territory level is for governments to ban new projects that would make climate change worse.

If the British government really believes the danger from CO2 - induced climate change is dire why hasn't it banned the use of private jets, forbidden government employees from traveling, and fast - tracked new nuclear power plants?

Vague ambitions, such as banning new petrol cars by 2040, must be turned into solid plans, says the Committee on Climate Change

However, if there were a legislated ban on new climate - damaging projects, that in itself would give market certainty and encourage new renewable energy and other safe projects.

But climate campaigners are calling for a ban on all NEW fossil fuel extraction projects, and it is the new projects that receive the heaviest subsidies from state governmenNEW fossil fuel extraction projects, and it is the new projects that receive the heaviest subsidies from state governmennew projects that receive the heaviest subsidies from state governments.

SPAIN has business leakage, California has banned all coal - based electricity, cap and trade creates vested interests in property rights — these are some of the issues economist Alan Moran reports on in his summary of the recent Climate Change Conference in New York.

Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe / PA Ministers have been urged to bring forward their 2040 ban on new diesel and petrol car sales by a decade, a move which an environmental thinktank said would almost halve oil imports and largely close the gap in the UK's climate targets.

If we assume the call is for nations and states to ban any new coal, oil, and gas projects, this is a very welcome shift to seeking blanket bans explicitly on climate grounds rather than any piecemeal opposition to individual projects based on a variety of environmental issues.

* 1 Monica Kwan platform includes: a ban on all new climate - damaging projects in SA as soon as safe - climate alternatives are available

A gay man and attorney who worked on high - profile LGBT cases, including a challenge the Boy Scouts ban on homosexual members, set himself on fire on Saturday at a public park in New York City to protest fossil fuels and climate change, according to a suicide note.

* 1 Raj Vasan (SA Best) platform includes: a ban on all new climate - damaging projects in SA as soon as safe - climate alternatives are available * 2 Stephanie Stewart (Greens) platform includes: We are in a climate emergency, with climate impacts already causing heat stroke, starvation, loss of life, and ecosystem destruction.

I support a legislative ban in SA on all new projects that contribute to global warming, applicable immediately in sectors where climate - safe alternatives are available.

NMBI legislation targets all new climate - damaging projects, and would include bans on new approvals and extensions to current permits for logging native forests, such as in the East Gippsland Kuark forest and Victoria's Central Highlands (the area of the proposed Great Forest National Park).

The EPA should promulgate a rule banning HFC blends from new equipment and strictly limit their use in retrofits of existing equipment in only those end - uses where they replace old substitutes with substantially higher climate impacts.

The potential measures to curb HFCs include bans on high - GWP refrigerants and new equipment that uses them, as well as financial incentives for early adoption of climate friendly refrigerants.

Climate change skeptics are being banned from BBC News, according to a new report, for fear of misinforming people and to create more of a «balance» when discussing man - made climate Climate change skeptics are being banned from BBC News, according to a new report, for fear of misinforming people and to create more of a «balance» when discussing man - made climate climate change.

Lovelock was recently interviewed by New Scientist: Carbon Trading is a Giant Scam, Ditto Carbon Sequestration After saying that there's «not a hope in hell» that we'll be able to work out some global system to deal with climate change similar the global CFC ban in time to save ourselves from climate change, Lovleock called most of the «green» efforts to deal with climate change verge on being gigantic scams,