Sentences with phrase «clean energy economy already»

America's booming clean energy economy already employs 3.3 million people — more than all U.S. fossil fuel jobs combined.

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Already, more than 68,000 British Columbians work in the «clean economy» — a sector that includes green buildings, clean energy, professional services, waste management and more, and contributed $ 6.3 billion to B.C.'s GDP in 2014, according to the Delphi Group.

«The Green Jobs - Green NY program will build on the significant efforts our State has already taken to help put New Yorkers to work in the clean energy economy,» Governor Paterson said.

The momentum from America's climate leaders is already powering us toward a clean energy economy, but we must pick up the pace.

California has increased its Renewable Portfolio Standards from 20 % by 2020 to 33 % by 2020.57 Germany has made a post-Fukushima commitment to increase its already leading levels of investment in renewable energy generation.58 In China's most recently released Five - Year - Plan, a majority of the «strategic industries» that are emphasized are «clean technology» industries.59 Brazil is moving ahead aggressively with building its local renewable fuels economy.60 None of these pioneers have started and then scaled back.

All three provinces offer instructive, made - in - Canada lessons for spurring clean innovation, advancing energy efficiency, and preparing Canada's economy to compete with other nations that are already making this shift.

«The best way to protect workers and the environment is to invest in growing the clean energy economy that is already outpacing fossil fuels and ensuring no one is left behind,» Brune said in an emailed statement.

Clean Energy Asia and many others are even looking at solar PV as a potential export for Mongolia, which already sees about a third of its economy comprised of natural resource exports such as coal, copper, and gold.

Rather than taking advantage of the many resources already supported by North Carolina's thriving clean energy economy (namely, renewable energy and energy efficiency), DEQ's proposed response to the Clean Power Plan includes only one compliance method: performance improvements at existing fossil fuel plclean energy economy (namely, renewable energy and energy efficiency), DEQ's proposed response to the Clean Power Plan includes only one compliance method: performance improvements at existing fossil fuel plClean Power Plan includes only one compliance method: performance improvements at existing fossil fuel plants.

Twenty - first century clean energy technologies are already being designed, built, marketed, and installed to replace more than a century's worth of entrenched fossil fuel infrastructure, and a recent report by the Department of Commerce indicates that there are nearly 2 million clean energy jobs in our economy today, with more on the way.

As the U.S. Congress debates the merits of enacting renewable electricity and energy efficiency standards, China has already forged ahead with building its own low - carbon economy, laying the foundation for clean - energy jobs and innovation.

«We can either help lead the world in a clean energy economy, or deepen the climate change crisis we are already in.»

His research focuses on the intersection of science communication and the politics of scientific issues, especially energy and climate change, and aims to both broaden citizen participation in scientific issues such as energy and improve the work of groups already active in movements toward a clean energy economy.

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.

FACT: The clean energy economy is already on its way, as the world has grown GDP while emissions have leveled off, proving that carbon pollution and wealth are not as tied as critics suggest.