Sentences with phrase «false solutions»

The climate crisis is here — and time has run out on false solutions like carbon capture and sequestration.
The agreement talks vaguely about «technologies» and «actions» without defining what these are, leaving the door open to all kinds of false solutions.
What is needed are more scientists and engineers to work on this challenge and less of a focus on false solutions.
We need real change in our schools, not false solutions.
And the right thing simply can not include funding dirty energy and false solutions in any of their forms.
Among many false solutions now coming at us, it is surely the most peculiar, but so American: every crisis viewed as a new business growth opportunity.
It would question their legitimacy and stop their march towards the heart of our governments with false solutions like CCS.
False solutions often favor the countries and people with power and money so that they may deny their role in causing climate change.
This primer explains the reality of the water crisis, the attempts at false solutions, and the options for real solutions.
We need measures that benefit everyone and not corporate - driven false solutions.
In her appearance at the coal summit and her acknowledgement of «clean coal» she has openly endorsed false solutions, a decision which has been widely condemned by civil society.
As a result, a variety of false solutions to reduce atmospheric levels of CO2 have been attempted or proposed.
Market solutions are false solutions for climate finance.
Pascal then exposed biofuels as false solutions and said that «la terre est pour la nourriture, pas pour nous de conduire plus avec une conscience claire» (the land is meant for food, not for us to drive more with a clean conscience).
It shows how corporate lobbying has resulted in a combination of weak CO2 reduction measures, the dominance of carbon markets and other false solutions such as agrofuels, nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
Fossil fuels aside, GCF - watchers must remain hyper - vigilant about the GCF funding false solutions like so - called climate smart agriculture, biofuels, waste incineration, nuclear energy and big dams.
Broad awareness and collective mobilisation and pressure to demand real change are needed to force the EU to abandon false solutions and adopt effective and just climate policies.
Fracking is the fossil fuel industry's latest false solution to our energy challenge.
If Europe learns from the biofuels lesson, it will stop promoting false solutions to the climate crisis that at the end present more environmental damage and degradation than relief for the planet.
Developed countries push for a mitigation approach where they see agricultural land usage as a way to reduce emissions through false solutions like biofuels and bioenergy carbon capture and storage which reduce the amount of land we can use for growing food.
Like I said in my last blog, developing countries have to be really, really wary of false solutions here in Durban.
Zachary Hurwitz, Global Standards coordinator at International Rivers pointed out, «There's nothing — yet — in the Fund's rules to stop it from financing false solutions like «clean» coal, natural gas fracking, destructive dams or even nuclear power in the name of «low - emissions» energy.
«The Women and Gender Constituency wants the agreement to focus on real solutions — not false solutions like nuclear energy, fracking, geo - engineering and mega dams.
Tom is a policy adviser to indigenous communities on environmental protection and more recently on climate policy focusing on mitigation, adaptation and concerns of false solutions.
Fossil fuels aside, GCF watchers must remain hyper - vigilant about the GCF funding false solutions like so - called «climate smart» agriculture, biofuels, waste incineration, nuclear energy and big dams, many of which are included in the Common Principles.
These measures must be urgently carried out without resorting to false solutions such as agrofuels and risky technology such as nuclear power.»
And the right thing simply can not include funding dirty energy and false solutions in any of their forms — fossil fuels and CCS, climate smart agriculture, biofuels, waste incineration, nuclear energy and big dams (and surely a few others as well).
Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen called the coupons «a false solution that can be summed up as too little, too late.»
Francis called the population control argument, which the Catholic Church has long opposed, a «false solution».
His main chance is to a) seem reasonable and make his opponents seem unreasonable - this was the main theme of last night's speech and b) offer painless, easy and false solutions to our medium - term budget problems and hope that candy + demonizing any Republican alternative that has some basis in reality will carry him to victory.
Some groups are keen on stopping the deployment of Golden Rice by raising speculations that a) it will threaten food security by contaminating traditional rice varieties, b) it is being forced to farmers and consumers as a complete solution to VAD, and c) its lengthy development shows that it is a false solution to VAD.
If you want to understand the damage done by simplistic labels, rigid formulas, bogus options and false solutions, I highly recommend these three blog posts: Month One as a Failing School... Month Three... Month Five).
Jai Sanders has yet another suggestion: «We're not asking the district or the state just to throw money at the problem but stop throwing these false solutions... We've got a new principal we are happy with; let's give her the time she needs to make things improve.»
«The UTLA is once again offering up a false solution to a real problem.
DRM was, for publishers, a false solution to the fear of massive pirating and who can blame them for that fear?
It also makes some false solutions look a lot more appealing to the public, like liquid coal or deforestation diesel, while providing the incentive to use «unconventional oil» such as Canadian tar sands or Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil.
So far, the organization has resisted these calls, and Bill Gates himself has called blanket divestment a «false solution» to the problem of climate change.
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