Sentences with phrase «concerned about the fossil fuel»

We mow down trees to create more roads and drive without any concern about fossil fuels.

However, as a climate scientist I remain much more concerned about the fossil fuel industry than I am about Arctic methane.

«Exclusionary indexes don't allow investors who are concerned about fossil fuel volatility to protect against downstream or supply chain impacts of oil fluctuations or policy changes,» stated the report.

But then he got concerned about the fossil fuel used in the process and the toxic materials, such as mercury, released into the air.

All of this is against the backdrop of an increasing grassroots movement against coal, and scientific certainty and elite concerns about fossil fueled climate change.

Not exact matches

Environmentalists have raised concerns about his Cabinet picks for energy and interior secretaries — ex-Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, strong supporters of the fossil fuel industry.

«Investors in fossil fuel companies are especially concerned about how their businesses can succeed in a low - carbon economy.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

In her first major environmental proposal, Nixon called on New York State to commit to 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050 — a benchmark that has been something of a Holy Grail for activists concerned about the warming of the planet as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.

From the start, the ethanol industry has been dogged by concerns about its net energy balance — whether ethanol requires more fossil fuel to make than it replaces.

Addressing concerns about keeping the process carbon - neutral, Paul Dauenhauer, another graduate student working on the project, notes that while methane is a fossil fuel, there are other ways to heat the catalyst that don't involve burning petrochemicals.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

Rosenthal says that if carbon dioxide emissions become taxed in the future due to continuing concerns about global warming, his solar - driven catalyst for making synthetic fuel will compete even better economically with fossil fuels.

Recycling is high on the agenda for the schools - which both belong to Focus - Trust, a charitable multi-academy trust based in the North West of England — with Thornhill receiving a shout out from local MP Paula Sherriff during Prime Minister's Question Time after she received a letter from students concerned about the UK's reliance on Fossil Fuels; an issue the MP said that, if tackled, would support the sustainable future of the green economy.

If you are so concerned about the world's poor, then I think it would be only fair if the rich countries (who created the mess) went cold turkey on carbon so the poor still can use cheap fossil fuel.

The «Alarmed» and «Concerned» support these policies because they care about climate change and the other environmental and health impacts of our continuing dependence on fossil fuels.

Concerns about rising fossil fuel prices, energy security, and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity.

Those houses became less common on the site in recent times, as I worried more about house size, the appropriateness of single family dwellings on big suburban lots, and trying to reconcile my love of clean, modern design with my concern about the use of fossil fuels or building materials that can not be maintained in a world made by hand.

The authors note that as fossil fuel reserves shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.

As PV costs drop, as concerns about climate change grow, and as countries look to replace finite fossil fuels with energy sources that can never run out, the growth in solar power should continue.

Dressed in a veneer of concern about climate change, in fact BP's outlook is a public relations exercise, designed to boost fossil fuels and undermine public faith in clean alternatives.

While much of the opposition came from people who were genuinely (although usually needlessly) concerned about wind power developments, a great deal also came from people and organisations with financial links to the fossil fuel industry.

Surely, if we are to be actively concerned about the impacts of nuclear power, or even nuclear accidents, then shouldn't we be going through the roof about the impacts of fossil fuel burning?

Rapidly declining costs of wind and solar energy technologies, increasing concerns about the environmental and climate change impacts of fossil fuels, and sustained investment in renewable energy projects all point to a not - so - distant future in which renewable energy plays a pivotal role in the electric power system of the 21st century.

We anticipate that the energy transition will be driven largely by mounting concerns about climate change, by climbing oil prices, and by the restructuring of taxes to incorporate the indirect costs of burning fossil fuels.

At the beginning of the present century fossil fuels were still relatively cheap, but concerns about energy security, global warming and fossil fuel depletion were already rumbling around.

Convinced that an energy transition from fossil fuels to green energy is under way, the federal government hasn't seemed too concerned about the decline of Canadian oil and gas.

We are British Columbians who are deeply concerned about the future of the planet, and we are frustrated that our government claims to be a green leader while at the same time helping to cook the planet by exporting huge amounts of fossil fuels.

Santa Cruz and San Francisco may be legitimately concerned about the effects of climate change on their communities, but their concern is being co-opted by money - hungry lawyers and environmental activists seeking to eliminate fossil fuel companies.

We are gravely concerned about the climate, financial and reputational risks associated with pursuing a speculative fossil fuel source that will likely become uneconomical as the world rapidly shifts towards clean energy sources.

In fact it may be a reason not to be overly concerned about China - they must be well aware that at the rate they keep using up more and more fossil fuels, they are going to get to a point where they're not longer cheap and easily available very quickly.

Participants also voiced concerns about the job implications of the energy transition, and the need for measures to shield regions that rely on the production of fossil fuel such as coal and shale from the adverse consequences of the energy transition.

Australians are genuinely concerned about the need to restrict their (paltry) share of global CO2 emissions, yet we are flat out filling the developing (and developed) world's requirement for fossil fuels.

Thus, biomass plants raise similar, but not identical, concerns about air emissions and water use as fossil fuel plants.

In a world that desperately needs to move away from fossil fuels and in an electorate that is leading the country in the development of renewable energy, Rowan, a Federal opposition back - bencher is so concerned about the stability of the state power grid — when there is no evidence of instability in that grid — that he makes a speech about it in Parliament!

As citizens concerned about climate change, we often focus on the negative impacts of industry — which in the case of fossil fuels are presently many, varied, and growing.

As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity deepens, and as concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging in the United States.

As concerns about climate change grow, solar PV has firmly established itself as an integral player in the transition from fossil fuels.

And a concern of removing fossil fuel subsidies — particularly in the current political climate of worries about oil imports — is that this can work against so - called «energy security» (some have therefore suggested the addition of an «oil import fee»).

In order to be concerned about global warming one has to assume that the increasingly cold trend on Earth has somehow been reversed by the arrival of man and his use of fossil fuels, which put minor amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere compared to other sources.

The misaligned projects that we identified usually had a strong development rationale outlined in the project documents, but the high lock - in risk associated with fossil fuel generation raises concerns about the ability to limit temperature rise to well below 2 °C.

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.

With fossil fuel prices and concern about climate change both climbing, there is now a resurgence of interest.

They are increasingly facing resistance from governments concerned about pollution and climate change; the United Nations is taking the position that fossil fuels must be put out of business over the next thirty years or so, which will reduce their revenues by hundreds of billions of dollars every year, and the simultaneous loss in stranded assets is calculated to be up to $ 100 trillion.

The ONA foresaw far - reaching economic and political effects, predicting that by the end of the twentieth century, concerns about greenhouse «could culminate in pressure for action to restrict fossil fuel use».

As fossil fuel resources shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.

These groups may harbor concerns that the main grid faces reliability risks or are concerned about the environmental impact of fossil fuel generation.

«Some of our stakeholders are concerned about the future of our fossil fuel reserves; in particular that they may become stranded assets,» Glasenberg wrote.

At the heart of both studies is a deeper concern about the response of the natural world to human - induced change, in the destruction of habitat, the loss of the plants, birds, insects, mammals, amphibians and reptiles that depend on habitat, and in the steady increase in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases, as a consequence of profligate combustion of fossil fuels.

Concerns about global warming, rising fossil fuel prices, and oil insecurity have prompted calls for a new energy economy, one that replaces fossil fuels with renewables.