Sentences with phrase «change from fossil fuel»

An eventual change from fossil fuel powered vehicles to electric vehicles, with the electricity being provided by renewables, is inevitable;

Together with impending climate change from fossil fuel emissions, the water crises impose some life - or - death decisions on us all.

The probe was prompted in part by reports in the Los Angeles Times and the online publication Inside Climate News, alleging that Exxon researchers expressed concerned about climate change from fossil fuel emissions decades ago, even as the company publicly raised doubts about whether climate - change was scientifically valid.

Chances are good that people who want Congress to act on human - caused climate change from fossil fuel greenhouse gas emissions are already in CCL, or will be joining soon.

What could make it clearer that the Rudd Government is only paying lip service to changing from fossil fuels to renewable energy?

Before asking readers to deconstruct Ed's paper [link here] it is useful to put in context the reality of changing from fossil fuel to renewables and the costs involved.

Citizens Climate Lobby is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots organization dedicated to addressing climate change from fossil fuels, and doing so by teaching average citizens how to make themselves heard by their elected leaders in efficient, effective ways.

You might think that as a member of the Australian parliament, at a time when changing from fossil fuels to renewables is top priority if the damage from climate change and ocean acidification are to be limited, Mr Ramsey would be singing the praises of this wonderful local achievement, but no, all he can manage is negativity.

In the linked Energy Generation Policy Statement, the Scottish Government said a change from fossil fuels to renewable energy was vitally important.

Climate change is the greatest environmental and ethical challenge to 21st century society; changing from fossil fuels to renewable energy is one of the actions that is essential to combating climate change.

Not exact matches

Asked on Sunday to clarify a statement he made last month that carbon dioxide — emitted from fossil fuel power plants — is not a primary contributor to climate change, Pruitt said «human activities contribute to that change in some measure.»

These exchanges bring fresh ideas, new perspectives and different ways of approaching problems, which are all catalysts for the innovation which fuels the economy and help us meet global challenges, ranging from climate change to fossil fuel dependence and infectious diseases.

«CBC Canada reported on [a] report, [from Oil Change International] but later issued a: Correction This story has been updated from a previous version that misstated the title of the report as «Fossil Fuel Bailout.»

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Climate change activists around the city, including the leader of a Sunset Park group, are praising a decision by the de Blasio administration to divest $ 5 billion in pension holdings from companies dealing in fossil fuel.

The report, hinged on the implications of climate change, came at a time when energy experts were insisting that unless countries drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions by moving away from fossil fuels, climate change would remain inevitable.

I doubt the BOC will change policy at this time even as the Canadian economy suffers from the severe drop in fossil fuel prices and other commodities.

We want to do our part to reduce our carbon emissions from fossil fuel consumption in order to help prevent the worst effects of climate change.

Speaking at the launch event, European Commissioner for Climate Action & Energy Miguel Arias Cañete said: «The European energy sector is undergoing a change of paradigm - from a system based on fossil fuels, towards a more efficient, more sustainable, clean energy sector.

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

«Money from megadonors from multibillion dollar fossil fuel industry should be rejected by all Long Island elected officials,» said Diane Goins of Hempstead, chairwoman of the Long Island Chapter of New York Communities for Change, a nonprofit coalition of working families in low and moderate income communities.

The sad part is - there are several valid benefits from reducing the consumption of fossil fuels, that have nothing to do with climate change.

The Clean Power Plan was part of an effort that included New York and other states to develop required cuts in emissions from fossil fuel burning power plants in order to combat climate change.

In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change.

«Divesting from fossil fuel stocks doesn't solve the problem, but it sends a huge message that government and its citizens should not be investing in the type of fuel that we know increase the problems we face rather than decrease and reverse the outcome of climate change.»

In that time, environmental and community groups turned the 124 - mile pipeline, which would have connected gas from Pennsylvania's robust fracking industry into a network of pipelines that terminate in Schoharie County, into a powerful symbol of the fossil fuel industry that causes climate change.

Panels focused on current efforts to tackle climate change, ranging from local environmental initiatives to the global Paris climate agreement, as well as how divestment from fossil fuels can be a tool for climate justice and curbing the impacts of climate change.

The main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet.

On her campaign website, Deacon said scientists have reached a consensus on climate change so she wants to transition away from fossil fuel energy sources, invest in clean energy technology and support federal acts to protect natural resources.

Using historical data, they included carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and changes in land use — such as deforestation.

«If that was a universal phenomenon on land, then you would see more of the carbon emitted from fossil fuel and land - use change staying in the atmosphere,» Houghton said, «but we are not really seeing that yet.»

Common problem but differing approaches Climate change is every country's problem, but the developed and developing worlds have very different challenges ahead of them in transitioning their energy systems away from fossil fuels, according to the IEA report.

In an upcoming paper, Max Bothwell, a scientist at Environment Canada, proposed that climate change is one of four factors — along with atmospheric deposition of nitrogen from fossil fuel burning — boosting the blooms.

New estimates from the International Energy Agency depict a world failing to reduce its reliance on burning fossil fuels, which emits the CO2 causing climate change

Air pollution from fossil fuel production has contributed to worsening smog and climate change

Much of the carbon dioxide given off from the burning of fossil fuels goes into the ocean, where it changes the acid balance of seawater.

The church is calling for people to change their personal habits related to fossil fuels and demand action from their public officials.

Capturing carbon dioxide may be the only hope to avoid a climate change catastrophe from burning fossil fuels

The event commemorates the 5 November 1965 President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report to President Lyndon B. Johnson, which warned that the accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels would «almost certainly cause significant changes» to the environment.

In fact, nukes and climate change are closely linked given that some see nuclear energy as one way to reduce emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Fossil - fuel burning power plants aren't only causing climate change, they're likely to suffer from such global warming.

Now, as the world faces the daunting challenge of trying to curb climate change by weaning itself from fossil fuels, Smil's work on energy transitions is getting more attention than ever.

Beyond Kerosene The amount of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the climate.

«Ultimately, if I'm making my plastic out of fossil fuels, [that means] I'm changing carbon from the ground into the atmosphere,» he says.

Extracting carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust and storing it underground may be the only hope to avoid a climate change catastrophe caused by burning fossil fuels

«Carbon release back then looked a lot like human fossil - fuel emissions today, so we might learn a lot about the future from changes in climate, plants, and animal communities 55.5 million years ago.»

Yet a small addition to the facility — a tiny boiler that pipes 30 MW worth of steam to local industrial customers — represents a hope for salvation from the global climate - changing consequences of burning fossil fuels.

The September report raised the probability that human actions, led by the use of fossil fuels, are the main cause of climate change since 1950 to at least 95 percent from 90.

Oceans play a key role in mitigating climate change, in part because they absorb about 25 % of global carbon - dioxide emissions from fossil - fuel burning and deforestation, he said.

Human - caused climate change caused the storm to drop significantly more rain than storms would have before atmospheric carbon dioxide levels spiked from the consumption of fossil fuels, according to research published yesterday.