Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel companies»

Soon received no government research grants, awarded in tough peer - reviewed competitions, but relied almost entirely on money from fossil fuel companies.

Without specifics, it said billions of dollars of the retirement fund is invested in fossil fuel companies.

The tool, available in its 1.0 version here, will continue providing valuable glimpses into the thinking of fossil fuel companies over the coming year.

The impacts for fossil fuel company business models should be seriously considered.

We, and more than 50 other BC - based organizations, have challenged BC local governments to consider a class action lawsuit against fossil fuel companies.

Their lawsuit is the latest in a string of legal actions by communities that are attempting to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the problems climate change creates.

The major fossil fuel companies need a risk assessment approach that encompasses the risks from an energy transition.

But, the influence of shareholder resolutions on fossil fuel companies climate - related behavior also has a long way to go.

So essentially fossil fuel companies don't need things like pesky government oversight or international climate agreements.

The city announced today it will explore the possibilities of suing fossil fuel companies for climate damages.

But when you're working on behalf of some of the largest fossil fuel companies in the world, you probably won't be inclined to endorse renewable energy.

What if there was a way to make fossil fuels companies pay their fair share — while putting extra cash in American pockets?

Today, many fossil fuel companies already acknowledge that action on climate change presents a material risk, but few offer disclosures that adequately assess the financial impact.

They can tell us whether fossil fuel companies are also taking the climate change threat into serious consideration in their budgets.

First, discussions among fossil fuel companies of carbon price impacts are typically obscure because of a lacking clarity as to how the tax is applied.

In other words, to convince investors to withdraw their financial support fossil fuel companies - and in doing so, protect the climate.

We simply want fossil fuel companies to become energy companies.

And this could have dramatic implications across all industries — not just fossil fuel companies.

Talking about the harm that fossil fuel companies cause our communities directly challenges the sense that oil and gas are a normal and inevitable part of our society.

It found 88 cases of the revolving door phenomenon between fossil fuel companies and the public sector in the 13 European countries it studied.

These letters do not, by themselves, force fossil fuel companies to pay for local climate impacts.

Which fossil fuel companies are most responsible for climate change?

Imagine fossil fuel companies making soil health one of their top business priorities — out of pure self interest.

When the government trades the health of our families and our planet away for fossil fuel company profits, we have to speak up.

Ultimately, oil and gas companies need to become what they claim to be; «integrated energy companies», rather than integrated fossil fuel companies.

Highly profitable fossil fuel companies have little incentive to change the status quo.

I see fossil fuel companies that are investing some of their profits into renewable energy R&D and efficiency.

As early as the 1970s, fossil fuel companies knew that their products — oil, natural gas, and coal — cause global warming.

Still, the current narrative is a fairly large leap from what fossil fuel companies were saying even recently.

And we refuse to let politicians risk our future and our world, just so fossil fuel companies profit.

And the third issue is that fossil fuel companies still invest, on the order of half a trillion dollars a year in developing new reserves.

This is highlighted by the extent of the revolving doors between European governmental bodies, the public sector and private fossil fuel companies, the report says.

With the world getting warm and fossil fuel companies planning on burning more, you'd think shareholder pressure would be mounting.

And they also favor fossil fuel company interests, because those companies provide a huge part of the donor base for Republican political campaigns.

The wealthy fossil fuel company managers and investors push us around again.

That's the equation fossil fuel companies really don't want the public to understand.

Meanwhile, his board of energy advisers are hand - picked from these bad actor fossil fuel companies and include a long list of climate change deniers.

There are several steps fossil fuel companies should take.

The job creation claims are the same distraction that fossil fuel companies continuously use whenever a new infrastructure project is proposed.

Although an in - depth comparison has not been conducted for the purposes of this paper, there seems to be much agreement between stakeholders on what should be reported by fossil fuel companies.

The case is one of several that pits cities against fossil fuel companies and that turns on what the companies knew about climate science, and when.