Sentences with phrase «end investment in fossil fuels»

The white paper pushed back against the growing global movement to end investment in fossil fuels.

McKibben is considered the father of the «divestment» movement — defined as applying pressure on universities and corporations to end all investments in fossil fuel companies or other industries that contribute significant amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.

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The Fossil Fuels Divestment Act would end any investments in the 200 largest publicly traded companies that deal in coal, oil or natural gas.

This election almost guarantees an end to the brief stimulus - driven period of increased investment in advancing energy technologies that could supplant finite fossil fuels.

DiCaprio attended a meeting of the Divest - Invest Coalition in New York City Tuesday, where he pledged to end his personal and his Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation's investments in the fossil fuel sector.

«More than 80 leading economists from 20 countries have signed a Declaration on Climate Finance urging for an immediate end to investment in new fossil fuel projects and a dramatic increase in renewable energy investment.»

Kim defended World Bank policies that permit investments in fossil fuels in developing nations in rare cases, saying it was often for power plants to supply electricity vital to help end poverty.

The era of fossil fuels is at the beginning of the end, coupled with our need to urgently address climate change — massive investment in Renewable energy is the logical conclusion.»

The Anglican Church in Ireland has voted to put an end to its major investments in fossil fuel companies.

The ability of low cost fossil fuels to depress investments in renewable energy deployment is coming to an end.

Civil society is not alone in making this point, just last week, 100 economists from around the world signed the Declaration on Climate Finance, calling for an immediate end to investment in fossil fuel production and infrastructure.

On the morning of 12 December 2017, an artistic mobilization will take place in Paris to send the message that Climate Finance means ending subsidies and investments for fossil fuels.

For example, in the IEA report that Chevron cites frequently, stranded assets are «capital investment in fossil - fuel infrastructure that ends up failing to be recovered over the operating lifetime of the asset because of reduced demand or lower prices resulting from climate policy» [3].