Sentences with phrase «clean economic shift»
His role will be to get companies to reveal more information about their exposure to extreme weather impacts, climate lawsuits and a clean economic shift.
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The shift would reduce economic output by between 2 - 6 percent by 2050, because of the costs of building a cleaner energy system based on low - carbon energies that are more expensive than abundant coal, the IPCC said.
$ 110B for clean energy Jiang cited China's ongoing economic restructuring — a shift from power - hungry heavy industries to an economy that runs on service and high - end manufacturing — as a key driving force behind the acceleration.
However, the upcoming economic integration presents an excellent opportunity to jumpstart the region's shift toward clean energy,» said Zelda Soriano, legal and political advisor to Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
«If we look at consumption of coal, the main drivers are rapid growth in clean energy, slower power demand growth due to shifting economic structure and energy efficiency.
The shift to a clean energy economy will put millions of Americans, including those most in need, back to work in the face of our deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression.
It's based on a simple but controversial idea: that cutting global warming emissions from burning fossil fuels and shifting to clean energy can unleash economic growth and job creation.
The 2009 ad also argues that a shift to clean energy «will spur economic growth» and «create new energy jobs.»
You can think of climate change as some grand conspiracy among thousands of scientists, but you can't doubt the massive economic shift going on in China and the world towards a Clean Industrial Revolution.
Increased energy demand in emerging markets, uncertain energy prices and international pressure to reduce carbon emissions, mean governments and businesses see the economic and security benefits of shifting to clean energy.
CBC, The Guardian, The Star and numerous other publications reported on the Decarbonizer this week, while Corporate Knights CEO Toby Heaps explained to The Exchange's Dianne Buckner why this demonstrates that the global economic shift away from declining fossil fuel industries toward the rising clean energy economy is already under way.
Among these changes are «an outright decoupling» of electricity growth and economic growth, a shift toward «decarbonizing» the power sector and the awakening of serious investor appetite for clean energy.
He also argues that the time has come to consider «shared sacrifice» in the world's wealthiest nations: a course of voluntary economic contraction in developed economies (thus reducing fossil energy consumption), while allowing developing nations time to shift from dirty to clean energy.