Sentences with phrase «extractive energy»

Alaska needs to lead the effort to combat global warming, not continue to protect the narrow interests of the extractive energy companies.

For more than 30 years, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth has been organizing in Kentucky to achieve voter rights, economic justice, and a transition away from the state's extractive energy and economy.

CEO portrays itself as seeking to ensure a «proper balance» between traditional non-renewable and extractive energy sources and alternative energy sources.

Not exact matches

Since 2015, the World Bank, via Anita Marangoly George, former senior director of Global Practice on Energy and Extractive Industries, has pushed to eliminate «a huge amount of greenhouse gas, equivalent to the emissions of 77 million cars,» by 2030.

Last week, Trump appointed the long - time fossil fuel lobbyist Myron Ebell to lead the transition of the Environmental Protection Agency, and recently Trump's transition team released statements on «energy independence» that unambiguously favor the extractive industries and in which the team promises to «conduct a top - down review of all anti-coal regulations».

Bosshard argued that much of the energy the World Bank helps to develop in poor countries winds up fueling extractive activities or is directed at urban centers.

The full study, titled Energy Governance, Transnational Rules and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), has been published as an open source piece in the journal World Development, and is available online.

Eliminate (100 %) all unsustainable tax incentives: Tax exemptions, subsidies, regulatory frameworks and other incentives are redirected towards sustainable, knowledge and employment - intensive sectors and local sustainable value chains and away from unsustainable activities, including industrial fisheries, forestry and agriculture, risky and otherwise unsustainable forms of energy production like fossil fuels, nuclear energy, unconventional energy production / franking and industrial bioenergy, extractive industries and chemical industry

Although technologies of solar energy vary, solar panels contain a range of minerals which are obtained through extractive mining.

There is clear demand for better information about how different energy and emissions scenarios impact businesses, as shown by the well - supported resolutions at extractive companies last year.

Fast, who is leading a Southern African - focused trade delegation of Canadian companies active in the extractives and energy sectors, was in Cape Town for the launch of SkyPower Cares, the corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative of SkyPower — a Canadian developer of solar photovoltaic projects.

The thing that really, really, seriously pisses me off, as a now historian of the extractive / energy industries, is that from Grimes Graves up until end of the last millenium, the UK had an almost 100 % record of leading the rest of the world in these fields, but we've tossed it all away for a bunch subsidy - chasing shiessters like the Yeo, Deben and Camoron clans.

The society which has been created is highly extractive and highly inefficient, where today material resources and water become wasted and toxic, and we waste 60 % or more of the energy between point of origin and point of consumption.

Antoine Simon, extractive industries campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, said: «The EU's PCI list should be the cornerstone of the transition to sustainable energy but with more than 90 gas projects earmarked for support, it is an industry wish list, not a list of common interest.

Most of the hazards associated with fracking and other extractive processes are considerably less present in renewable energy production.

Colin Roche, extractives campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: «Under the guise of energy security, G7 leaders are pushing a corporate - driven agenda of dirty energy.

Extractive companies can begin to redeploy CAPEX from searching for more reserves to diversifying their businesses by investing more aggressively in renewable energy.