Not exact matches
When the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) launched its Teaching Tolerance initiative in 1991, the
goal was to intervene
early to prevent the formation of prejudice — the kind of hate that could
fuel the Klan - related crimes the SPLC was fighting.
Of particular interest is meeting the
goals and objectives of the President Obama's EV Everywhere Grand Challenge (
earlier post) to produce a wide array of plug - in electric vehicles — as well as improvements in other vehicle technologies such as powertrains,
fuel, tires, and auxiliary systems.
If the Government would recognize that the use of fossil
fuel is not sustainable and would set the
goal to achieve a hydrogen - based energy economy by 2020 or
earlier, it would not only stimulate biochemical and physical research, but additional development of using hydrogen gas in stead of fossil
fuel (already possible, but not yet economical).
A new report from Oil Change International calculates that, in order to accomplish those
goals, governments need to stop permitting and building all new fossil
fuel projects and retire
early some existing oil and gas fields and coal mines.
Scientists say the world is already behind the needed trajectory of emissions reduction to meet the Paris
goal, and investments in more fossil
fuel assets — scheduled to be in service for up to 40 years — could commit the world to see the most catastrophic consequences of climate change if they are not retired
early.
Achieving the GHG and air quality
goals outlined in the draft Scoping Plan Update (
earlier post) will require a renewable portfolio of transportation
fuels well beyond the current policy trajectories.
Within the 2015 agreement, CAN calls for long term global
goals of phasing out all fossil
fuel emissions and to phase in a 100 % renewable energy future with sustainable energy access for all, as
early as possible, but not later than 2050.
ICE was proposed by a coalition of utility companies including the Western
Fuels Association, Southern Company, and the Edison Electric Institute in the
early 1990s with the
goal to «Reposition global warming as theory (not fact).»
In the ruling
earlier this month, the Court rejected a DOE finding that federal agencies can not take action to reduce
fuel use because petroleum reduction
goals mandated by the Act are unachievable.
The document in question is what's known as a negotiating text, and in this case it contains a whole grab bag of aspirational long - term
goals... It is a very
early version of what, over the course of the next 12 months, will morph into a new global deal to be signed in Paris... But if language such as «full decarbonization by 2050» were to become a reality, it basically defines an end point for the fossil
fuel energy industry as we know it...