Sentences with phrase «for phasing out fossil fuel»

I think that this is of a piece with your discussion of a 50 - 100 year time frame for phasing out fossil fuel use.

Demesure, I think there's very powerful arguments for phasing out fossil fuels in favour of nuclear energy, even without AGW.

Not exact matches

Third, governments worldwide forged an historic climate agreement in Paris that will drive the global phase - out of fossil fuel generation over decades — and increase the demand for the technologies that can replace it.

We will fulfill Canada's G - 20 commitment to phase out subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.

She said that New York would be different if she were in charge, she promised to end cash bail, make New York a sanctuary state for immigrants, and phase out fossil fuels.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

But, as Hansen wrote in an additional assessment of his new analysis, «Environmentalists need to recognize that attempts to force all - renewable policies on all of the world will only assure that fossil fuels continue to reign for base - load electric power, making it unlikely that abundant affordable power will exist and implausible that fossil fuels will be phased out.»

Scientists need to explain to the public that while they continue to study the details of anthropogentic global warming and consequent climate change, that we already know enough to be certain that continued unmitigated warming will be a disaster for all humanity, and that we urgently need to phase out all fossil fuel use as quickly as possible.

The Communiqué calls on the international community to increase efforts to phase out perverse subsidies to fossil fuels by promoting policy transparency, ambitious reform and targeted support for the poorest.

An unprecedented coalition of close to 40 governments, hundreds of businesses and influential international organisations has called today for accelerated action to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, a move that would help bridge the gap to keep global temperature rise below 2 °C.

We could start by phasing out all subsidies for the production of fossil fuels and ethanol.

It's interesting that you keep pushing geoengineering while at the same time disparaging, rejecting, ignoring and otherwise expressing extreme negativity towards the multiple, readily implementable plans that have been put forward by multiple independent organizations and academic researchers, as well as government agencies, for rapidly phasing out CO2 emissions from fossil fuels using benign technologies that we have at hand now.

-- Implementing a partial phase - out of fossil fuel consumption subsidies accounts for 12 % of the reduction in emissions and supports efficiency efforts.

While the climate situation is far worse than most people think, the options for quickly phasing out fossil fuel and nuclear energy and replacing them with clean renewable energy sources are much better than most people think.

So, what do the «scientists» say about their proposal to phase out fossil fuel emissions and provide affordable renewable energy access for all?

Point five addresses bringing people out of poverty and calls for putting «an end to the fossil fuel era, phasing out fossil fuel emissions, including emissions from military aviation and shipping and providing affordable, reliable and safe renewable energy access for all.»

Maintaining the momentum, and not forgetting where we started out, we rejoined with our Divest London friends at the beginning of 2016 with a sea - shanty / flooding themed event at City Hall, and celebrated a short while later when all four leading candidates for Mayor of London committed to work to phase out London - wide fossil fuel investments.

The campaign launched last week with a letter demanding that Brown halt the development of all new dirty fuel projects in California, create a plan to phase out all fossil fuel extraction as quickly as possible and provide support and opportunities for those most impacted by the transition.

The report, entitled Financing Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas, calls on USEXIM and other nations» export credit agencies (ECAs) to phase out all financial support for fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest, in order to help prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

Since 2009, the IEA has actively contributed to all energy work streams of the G20 — a group that accounts for 85 % of the global economy and 75 % of global energy demand — covering topics ranging from energy security and market transparency, to energy efficiency and the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies.

Professor Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Teesside University said: «If the EU is to transform its energy system to align with the Paris temperature and equity commitments, it can not continue with business as usual and must instead initiate a rapid phase out of all fossil fuels including natural gas.

Some outlets have incorrectly reported that the World Bank Group will eliminate only their finance for fossil fuel exploration, but it's even bigger than that: the World Bank described it as a commitment to end «upstream oil and gas finance,» which means they're planning to phase out all of their extraction - related finance.

Progressively phasing out fossil fuels in favor of clean electricity is what USA should have been doing for the last 30 + years.

Most developed countries supported a text calling for a transition to a green economy that included phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, the use and production of renewable energies, and creating «green» jobs in this new economic model.

Analysts at the global think tank Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) warn that Russia's «ostrich approach to phasing out fossil fuels and its denial of the human origins of climate change» could hamper climate action globally.

Reacting to the launch of UK - Canada coal phase - out alliance, Chief Executive of the World Coal Association, Benjamin Sporton said: «With the world set to use fossil fuels, including coal, for the...

The most the G20 gathering could manage this time around on the climate front was a solemn nodding of the heads when Obama suggested that it would be a great idea if they phased out subsidies for fossil fuels.

There is a crying need for some place, preferably a place that is reasonably large, to demonstrate an energy & climate approach with the potential to go global, an approach designed to allow amplifying feedbacks that lead to rapid phase - out of fossil fuels as the price of fossil fuels becomes honest.

He reminded the gathering of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's 2014 call for UCT to phase out its fossil fuel investments.

The international community has committed to phase out subsidies for fossil fuel use, including in the electricity sector.

D. Phasing out fossil fuels would amount to a policy of mass poverty for the American people, unless America turns to nuclear power, which is opposed by the same extremists who oppose fossil fuels.

In 3 legislative files currently negotiated in Brussels the European Parliament progressed on financing matters: reporting on Fossil Fuel Subsidies phase - out; the linking the EU budget comes to national climate ambitions; a climate impact assessment tool for EU investments; and a 40 % climate earmarking target for the Juncker Investment Plan.

How would phasing out U.S. federal leases for fossil fuel extraction affect CO2 emissions and 2 °C goals?.

The statement, signed by Aviva, Aegon NV, and MS Amlin, calls for governments to set «a clear timeline for the full and equitable phase - out by all G20 members of all fossil fuel subsidies by 2020.»

Major global insurance companies are urging G20 leaders to commit to a specific timeline for rapidly phasing out fossil fuel subsidies — something they've repeatedly failed to do over the years despite numerous promises to end support for the industry.

[2] For 1.5 °C, gas and other fossil fuels would need to be phased out even faster.

Phasing out federal leases for fossil fuel extraction could reduce global CO2 emissions by 100 million tonnes per year by 2030, and by greater amounts thereafter.

It calls for policy measures, including fiscal, financial and economic incentives, phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, and pricing carbon.

«All countries should aim for a global phase - out of unabated fossil fuel power generation by 2050.

Otherwise, what hope would there be for expediting the necessary phase - out of fossil fuels and the fundamental transformation to a clean energy system?

It is difficult to see how developing, transporting, and refining the tar sands would be anywhere near the most economical (let alone environmentally acceptable) option for burning a strictly limited quantity of fossil fuel while expediting a phase - out.

Regarding the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), the European Parliament set for a binding template for the NECPs and added into the template many important details, e.g. on phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, Member State's national trajectories for maintaining and enhancing the carbon removals from sinks as well as trajectories and objectives for energy from renewable sources produced by cities, energy communities and self - consumers.

«Phasing out current subsidies for wind, solar, ethanol, and fossil fuels» could be meritorious on its own, but how much does this generate, and does it even pass a political laugh - test?

The biggest issue, Cohen and Jacobson agree, is motivating governments to take on the enormous challenge of phasing out cheap and abundant fossil fuels — and building a cleaner energy supply for the planet.

It calls for «immediate and ambitious action to stop exploration and expansion of fossil fuel projects and manage the decline of existing production» and notes that «the carbon embedded in existing fossil fuel production will take us far beyond safe climate limits» and «many existing projects will need to be phased - out faster than their natural decline.»

Scientists need to explain to the public that while they continue to study the details of anthropogentic global warming and consequent climate change, that we already know enough to be certain that continued unmitigated warming will be a disaster for all humanity, and that we urgently need to phase out all fossil fuel use as quickly as possible.

However, the suggested timeline for phasing out existing production, «a full transition away from fossil fuels will take decades», belies the urgency of tackling the climate emergency.

Reacting to the launch of UK - Canada coal phase - out alliance, Chief Executive of the World Coal Association, Benjamin Sporton said: «With the world set to use fossil fuels, including coal, for...

Chaos would erupt as people try to survive Even if fossil fuels are slowly phased out, there are insufficientsustainable energy sources for the Earth's current population andlevel of industrialization, especially for motor vehicleconsumption (e.g. transportation, shipping, mining, agriculture).

The scientific study «Natural Gas and Climate Change» by Professor Kevin Anderson and Doctor John Broderick of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research reveals the urgency with which Europe needs to phase - out all fossil fuels.