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-- We replace half of fossil fuel energy with nuclear energy, which as a first approximation emits no CO2.

Friends of the Earth says the agreement provides a clear blueprint for fighting climate change by replacing nuclear and fossil fuel energy with safe, clean, cost - competitive renewable energy.

The net effect is a strong incentive for consumers, business people, and entrepreneurs to find ways to replace fossil fuel energy with clean energy and energy efficiency.

The IPCC's claim as to the world's ability to replace most of the fossil fuel energy with renewable sources by the mid-century is nothing but a hollow statement based on wishful thinking.

Replacing nuclear and fossil fuel energies with alternate energies drives up the costs and creates a multitude of other problems.

Not exact matches

Fossil fuel usage, meanwhile, is expected to hit its ceiling in 2030 at 2.93 billion tons of oil equivalent with coal expected to continue as the top energy source for China by 2050.

While the money is modest compared with that donated by fossil fuel interests, the support provides GOP candidates with added credibility on clean energy, an issue polling shows swing voters care about.

Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the election of a president who is making fossil fuel - friendly Cabinet appointments and promises to bring back coal.

The final agreement involves several legally binding clauses, with trillions of dollars dedicated to reducing the dependence on fossil fuels within many countries, and to rolling out a huge expansion of renewable energy.

In the U.S., the cost of solar energy is now about on par with — and in some cases, cheaper than — energy from fossil fuels.

Clean energy development has in recent years become much cheaper and more competitive with fossil fuel power, particularly large wind and solar panel farms.

BP estimated this year that fossil fuels will still represent 81 percent of energy in 2035, compared with 86 percent in 2012.

As he stated flatly in an exclusive interview with Fortune: «The core mission of the company is selling clean energy at a lower cost than fossil fuels.

«Support investment in sustainable energy with tax - policy that is at least equal to the benefits given to fossil fuels.»

That means making sure prices cover not only the direct costs of supplying energy but also the environmental externalities associated with production and use of fossil fuels — the waste water (which increases a variety of risks), and the broader side effects from vehicle use — congested roads, traffic deaths, and so on.

Investment in clean energy set a new record last year, with more money invested globally in new renewable power than in new power from fossil fuels.

Just 30 per cent said they felt it was «better for Canada to stick with mostly fossil fuel energy for a long time to come.»

``... to wean our economy off its overreliance on high - cost carbon fuels...» And how do you propose to do this with fossil fuels representing more than 80 % of the energy budget?

However, only 17 per cent of Canadians think Canada should stick with fossil fuels for the long term in light of Mr. Trump's energy agenda.

And with clean energy investment globally hitting a record - breaking US$ 367 billion last year — nearly 50 per cent more than was invested in fossil - fuelled electricity — it's a great time to buy into this particular market.

«New pipelines to transition to clean energy» is Canada's own form of climate denial Watching Prime Minister Trudeau celebrate President Trump's executive order reviving the Keystone XL pipeline got me thinking: how is it that our «progressive» Canadian leader is siding with the climate - denying U.S. president on major fossil fuel expansion?

«We are working closely with the CleanTech Alliance Fund team to build U.S. infrastructure that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, expand the use of renewable energy and recycled materials, and improve the efficiency of our economy,» said Scott Brown, Managing Partner of the Fund.

The landmark report that found Alberta could reduce its reliance on fossil fuel power and replace that generation with a mix of mostly renewable energy sources within two decades.

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

A Republican tax bill unveiled on Thursday included cuts to renewable energy tax credits considered critical to enabling wind projects to compete with fossil fuel plants, but tax breaks for Continue Reading

The company is currently discussing with several states in the country to determine who it'll partner with to reduce dependence on fossil fuels in America, commit to inroads in green energy and attempt to innovate the state of the trucking industry.

The province can drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels for power generation and replace it with renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, biomass, hydro and geothermal energy.

Imported fossil fuels provide the bulk of power fuel, with 47 percent of the island's electricity coming from petroleum, 34 percent from natural gas, 17 percent from coal, and just 2 percent from renewable energy in 2016, according to the Energy Information Administrenergy in 2016, according to the Energy Information AdministrEnergy Information Administration.

In plain terms, we are choosing to penalize our own energy industry with severe financial measures, when other jurisdictions like the U.S. are slashing taxes and red tape, rejecting carbon taxes, and calling for expanded fossil fuel production due to growing global demand.

Crude oil's secular bear market trend matches up very well with the underlying transition process from fossil fuels to alternative energy.

«This world - class technology — which can be applied globally by all community - minded companies with organic waste and wastewater streams — produces both green energy to supplant fossil fuel needs as well as delivering high quality treated wastewater to safeguard community water standards.

Benefits of the company's new wastewater and green energy plant mean that DMPI can replace fossil fuels with green energy, and given the high prices of electricity form the Grid and the sometimes erratic supply, the plant will achieve rapid ROI payback.

«Working with partner Mass Energy, we are committed to this quick, easy, and effective program that supports sustainable energy alternatives while moving us away from fossils fuels,» Tepper Energy, we are committed to this quick, easy, and effective program that supports sustainable energy alternatives while moving us away from fossils fuels,» Tepper energy alternatives while moving us away from fossils fuels,» Tepper added.

«With partners like Mass Audubon, we can replace this state's overdependence upon fossil fuels and create jobs with clean, local renewable energy sources,» Chretien sWith partners like Mass Audubon, we can replace this state's overdependence upon fossil fuels and create jobs with clean, local renewable energy sources,» Chretien swith clean, local renewable energy sources,» Chretien said.

«Ministers must now come up with a sensible plan that protects the UK's solar industry and allows cash - strapped homes and businesses to free themselves from expensive fossil fuels by plugging into clean energy.

«As a developed, industrialised country the UK has to lead the way by ending our dependence on fossil fuels, and investing in clean, renewable sources of energy which we are fortunate enough to be blessed with in the UK,» Christian Aid's senior climate change adviser Alison Doig said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Long Island with reporters on Wednesday said he wanted to back up the rhetoric about renewable energy with a push toward divesting the state's pension fund from fossil fuel companies.

Moving forward with a campaign pledge to unravel former President Obama's sweeping plan to curb global warming, Trump today is set to sign an executive order that will suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half - dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of fossil fuels.

Or that we need to work towards a green energy supply but keep the lights on with fossil fuels in the short to medium term?

Having the Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface ski centers join The Climate Reality Project's «I Am Snow 100 %» program is in line with Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, which requires that half of all electricity used in New York come from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels, by 2030, the governor's office said in a press release.

A 2016 report by energy research firm Corporate Knights estimated that by sticking with fossil, rather than clean, fuels, New York pensioners missed out on roughly $ 5.3 billion in added earnings in 2015.

Organizer 350Vermont says the campaign is about coming up with solutions to get the state off fossil fuels and make a fair and equitable transition toward renewable energy, electric vehicles and improved public transportation.

«Let's do what we can to make sure we have the energy available for people right now but invest in forward thinking: in renewable technologies, in wind turbines, in solar panels, in geothermal, to help us transition off so we have the ability to use energy and electricity in future years to come not with fossil fuels.»

Will the Cuomo administration commit to continued dirty, dangerous, climate destroying fossil fuel energy, that further endangers communities with risks of explosion and fire, and provides few jobs?

Organizations like the Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy (SHARE) have kept the pressure on state officials — sending a letter to Cuomo signed by two dozen Albany County legislators opposed to the project's fossil fuel - powered status and holding multiple public meetings with the New York Power Authority to express their grievances.

The wind energy industry, where Britain could be a world leader, has been thrown into disarray by a published letter to Cameron calling on him to withdraw subsidies to renewable sources of energy and stick with nuclear and fossil fuels,

Friends of the Earth said: «Chris Huhne is right to target the Big Six, but his fighting talk must be matched with bold action to slash energy waste and cut our dependency on expensive fossil fuels.»

Just last month, LIPA's board renewed long - term contracts with antiquated and polluting fossil - fueled power generators, without any meaningful action on modernizing the energy grid, or transitioning to renewable energy.

We've put together a statewide campaign with environmental allies to push Governor Cuomo to stop all fossil fuel infrastructure projects in the state and move rapidly to 100 % renewable energy.

But batteries for grid storage will have to be very cheap to compete with fossil fuels as an on - demand energy source.