Sentences with phrase «campaign by fossil fuel»

This was despite a sustained campaign of lobbying and denial by the chemicals industry — led by Dupont — which bears strong similarities to the campaign by fossil fuel companies to prevent action on climate change.

But unfortunately, due to 30 years of political paralysis (as a result of a very effective long term disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry) so some rising sea levels are already in the pipeline as a result of temperature rise that comes from past and current carbon dioxide emissions.

The reason goes back to the original point of the PR campaign by the fossil fuel lobby — to create a sense of doubt in the public mind about this issue.

On the other hand, campaigns that focus only on demand - side policy, on the population's demand for cheap, polluting fuel, tend to overlook the effects of the massive political - economic disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industries and their political surrogates on laming climate action once human - caused climate change was recognized internationally as a problem around 25 years ago.

That's partly because of a long campaign by fossil fuel interests to muddy the science on global warming and fight pollution regulation.

It is due to a calculated disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry and a cadre of front groups like ALEC to make people believe the science is unsettled, exploiting the natural human tendency to do nothing in the face of uncertainty.

The missing piece is the relentless, heavily funded propaganda campaign by the fossil fuel industry that keeps these denialist views in the public eye.

Given the long history of consensus denial campaigns by fossil fuel interests and climate contrarians, continued resistance to the consensus is an expected result.

Not exact matches

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

A campaign by the Guardian has called on the Gates foundation and the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest medical research charity, to divest their large endowments of fossil fuels.

Inspired by the Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign, the London panelists developed a global opportunity to address the excessive use of antibiotics in agriculture.

Investing for impact in public equities can include divesting from companies considered harmful to the environment, as embodied by 350.org's fossil fuel divestment campaign.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

In his campaign across New York, Hawkins is calling for a halt to all new fossil fuel infrastructure and 100 % clean energy by 2030.

Howie Hawkins, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for Governor, will participate in the 100 % clean energy by 2030 / Off Fossil Fuels Now campaign at the State Capitol on Tuesday, May 8.

The third example, the «Keep It in the Ground» fossil fuel divestment campaign, was launched in March 2015 by British newspaper The Guardian to «keep fossil fuels where they belong: in the ground» to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Some reject global warming science thanks to a misinformation campaign funded by fossil - fuel companies

«These documents are breathtaking, and they reveal what many of us have long suspected: That there is a campaign afoot by groups directly funded by the fossil fuel industry and right - wing foundations such as Koch Industries to mislead the public about climate change,» Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann wrote in an email to LiveScience.

An early target of the campaign is European proposals for a carbon tax on fossil fuels, rising to $ 10 per barrel by the end of the decade.

With generic solutions like «consume less» and «vote better», the film mostly avoids controversy... though it does acknowledge the slick and well - funded «campaign of denial» by those who profit mightily from a fossil - fuel dependent world.

AGW denialism has been manufactured by a generation - long campaign of deliberate deceit, funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and other fossil fuel corporations that collectively rake in one billion dollars per day in profit from the ongoing business - as - usual consumption of their destructive products.

And indeed, the fossil fuel industry's generation - long campaign of denial, deceit and disinformation — aided and abetted by so - called «journalists» such as yourself — has been tragically successful at creating obstruction and delay, and millions of people are already suffering and millions more will inevitably suffer and die as a result, no matter what we do now.

If congressmen coming from gerrymandered districts with campaigns financed by fossil fuel interests put climate scientists out of work, perhaps those scientists will find lucrative positions where more resources will be made readily available.

Mr. Romm and many environmental campaigners and energy entrepreneurs say that markets, laws, public campaigns and leadership can prompt the technological transformation, and that government research money has mainly been a distraction and a delaying device promoted by industries or political operatives wedded to fossil fuels.

Very good piece — but when dealing with the kind of massive public relations campaign being run by the last holdouts (fossil fuel investors, coal companies, and fossil fuel - dependent nation - states), it really is unwise to go along with their «list of questions.»

It's about time somebody pointed out that fossil fuel companies» disinformation campaigns are known to be full of lies by the ones who ordered them.

It is noteworthy that in the recent campaign of libels against him there has not been, as far as I know, a single suggestion that any particular result or conclusion was reached in part or in whole because either that particular research project or his scientific work in general was funded by fossil - fuel interests.

The suggested resolutions, which still must be cleared by the Securities and Exchange Commission, are part of a 25 - year campaign by corporate responsibility advocates to get Exxon and other fossil fuel producers to limit emissions of harmful greenhouse gases.

In fact, most states with renewable energy standards have chosen to stand by their bipartisan commitments to clean energy, and reject the disinformation campaign funded by fossil fuel and utility interests.

We are writing now to express our concern at Taiwan's transition away from clean, nuclear energy to fossil fuels, warn against a misinformation campaign being waged by financial interests, and encourage a democratic resolution to Taiwan's energy crisis.

The two members of Congress wrote to Loretta Lynch, the attorney general, on Wednesday, saying they were concerned by the results of two separate investigations by Inside Climate News and the Los Angeles Times, which found that ExxonMobil scientists confirmed fossil fuels were causing climate change decades ago, but publicly embarked on a campaign of denial.

APS appears to be leading the first assault of a national campaign by the utility industry trade association, Edison Electric Institute (EEI), and fossil fuel interests like APS, to weaken net metering policies.

The campaign launched last week with a letter demanding that Brown halt the development of all new dirty fuel projects in California, create a plan to phase out all fossil fuel extraction as quickly as possible and provide support and opportunities for those most impacted by the transition.

Yet the IPCC still primarily focuses on these two facts, in part to counter misinformation campaigns by skeptics groups backed by fossil fuel interests that oppose caps on greenhouse gases.

Ashton, there is no doubt that the misinformation campaigns conducted by those who have a vested interest in the continuing unabated use of fossil fuels have been very effective, thank you for confirming that.

In truth 10 of its protagonists have either been funded directly by fossil fuel companies, or have received paid employment from lobby groups funded by these companies, which campaign against taking action on climate change (11).

Even with the Guardian's welcome campaign, the world still needs a transparent price on carbon pollution to strangle demand for fossil fuels by replacing them with non-carbon alternatives.

By withdrawing investments from fossil fuel companies or campaigning as shareholders for them not to develop new reserves;

Glantz has explicitly likened the fossil fuel industry's campaign to deny the science of human - caused climate change to the earlier campaign by the tobacco industry to deny the adverse health impacts of their product.

And yet, despite some encouraging developments in renewable energy and some breakthroughs in international leadership, carbon emissions continue to rise at a steady rate, and for their pains the scientists themselves — the cruelest blow of all — have been the targets of an unrelenting and well - organized attack that includes death threats, summonses from a hostile Congress, attempts to get them fired, legal harassment, and intrusive discovery demands so severe they had to start their own legal - defense fund, all amplified by a relentless propaganda campaign nakedly financed by the fossil - fuel companies.

President Trump campaigned on «bringing back coal» and has attempted to follow up on this promise by thwarting the Clean Power Plan and pulling out of the Paris Agreement in an attempt to keep fossil fuels up and running.

The Republican opposition to this is heavily subsidized by fossil fuel money for campaigns in their various states.

In response, the Russian government carried out a concerted campaign to disrupt U.S. energy markets by fomenting fears of fossil fuels causing catastrophic climate change.

... The response of those industries was to mount a very successful campaign of disinformation, using a tiny handful of greenhouse sceptics, most of whom failed to voluntarily disclose the fact that they were funded by fossil fuel interests.

On 350.org's divestment website, student activists can download a campaign toolkit including sample petitions, scientific data and a list of the 200 fossil fuel companies being targeted by the group.

The report, by transparency campaigning and research group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), highlights the easy and frequent flow of EU public servants and elected representatives into corporate jobs linked to the fossil fuel industry, or those who represent them, and vice versa.

The report also included highlights of a leaked document showing a public relations campaign funded by the fossil fuel industry which was designed to use these scientists and others to «reposition global warming as theory (not fact).»

American ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's has partnered with climate activism group 350.org Australia to launch a campaign to freeze fossil fuels investments, by encouraging Australians to lobby their local governing bodies to ensure that none of its assets are in coal, oil and gas.

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(1) The enormous damage to the world that has been caused by a mostly fossil fuel corporate funded disinformation campaign on climate change,