Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel expansion»

In May 2016, as part of a worldwide outcry against fossil fuel expansion, citizens from across Europe gathered in the Welsh countryside and closed down the coal company's existing coal mine for 24 hours.

On Saturday, panelists from New Zealand, France, and the World Bank addresseda packed room here at the latest round of climate talks in Bonn to share stories about how and why they are making moves to stop approving and financing fossil fuel expansion.

The People's Climate Mobilization is part of a larger strategy to push back on Trump's agenda of climate denial and fossil fuel expansion, and then double - down at the local level fighting fossil fuels and lifting up real climate solutions.

There is a lot to be concerned about in regards to fossil fuel expansion right now.

Zinke's dirty energy budget and resist Trump's fossil fuel expansion agenda.

What's clear from the Interior Department's 2018 budget request is that the American public is the biggest loser when it comes to the Trump Administration's fossil fuel expansion agenda.

DOI's budget proposes deep cuts to programs designed to minimize the impacts of fossil fuel expansion.

We may inherit the impacts of climate change and fossil fuel expansion here in Canada, but around the world people are already feeling those impacts, losing their homes and losing their lives.

* 1 Skyla Wagstaff (Animal Justice Party) platform includes: AJP has clear Key Objectives surrounding renewable energy including to rapidly transform to a carbon free energy infrastructure, prohibiting any fossil fuel expansion, and a carbon tax on both coal and animal agriculture industries to pay for clean energy solutions, sustainable plant - based food agricultural systems, education and the protection of existing forests and marine habitats.

This May, from 5 — 13 May, individuals and institutions are choosing to take matters into their own hands as governments fail to take bold action to confront the climate crisis and halt fossil fuel expansion.

Activists across the continent are using every tool in their arsenal to dispel development plans based on fossil fuel expansion and ensure a safer more sustainable future for the region.

But over time, as the world increasingly realizes that fossil fuel expansion has no place in a world where we plan for success in addressing climate change, we can expect other financial institutions — both public and private — to follow their lead.

«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?

Not exact matches

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.

Back in 2010, Dogwood decided that stopping the expansion of fossil fuel export infrastructure in British Columbia was the biggest contribution we could make to the growing climate movement.

Standing with advocacy groups working to stop the expansion of industrial fossil fuel projects.

That pricing power seems to be becoming even stronger during the downturn as pipelines consolidate and expansion of alternatives for moving fossil fuels become more difficult due to capital constraints.

The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia

Environmentalists oppose the expansion because they say it could increase reliance on fossil fuels.

They oppose all new fossil fuel infrastructure, such as the publicly - opposed methane gas storage expansion project at Crestwood.

Lurking behind all this is a potential crisis in the very resource that has enabled this unprecedented expansion of human numbers: fossil fuels.

Despite concerted global efforts to reduce carbon emissions through the expansion of clean and renewable energy resources, fossil fuels continued to dominate the global energy sector in 2012, according to new figures released yesterday by the Worldwatch Institute.

Ignoring terrestrial carbon led to a nearly complete loss of unmanaged forests by 2100, largely because they were replaced by massive expansions of bioenergy crops that were planted to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

Second, scenarios with 2 °C or more warming necessarily imply expansion of fossil fuels into sources that are harder to get at, requiring greater energy using extraction techniques that are increasingly invasive, destructive and polluting.

Recent expansions in green renewable power and carbon offset credits enabled us to convert and transfer our previous dependency on non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels and nuclear to a more sustainable and less harmful energy source.

Known for her extensive projects examining the intersections of modern civilization, geology, industry, and the natural environment, in Nexus the artist investigates the crossroads of the petrochemical and industrial cargo trade, and alludes to the expansion of global markets and the intensification of fossil fuel consumption worldwide.

Unless scientists have totally missed the mark with their understanding of the greenhouse effect, there is no doubt that continued expansion of our population, coupled with continued economic growth spurred on primarily by fossil fuels, is going to continue to warm the planet, melt ice, raise sea levels, etc. for a long time to come.

The elimination of fossil fuel subsidies was one, as was the expansion of social protection programmes, a huge expansion of the global network of protected marine areas, etc..

However, the NYT, to their credit, did cover the current efforts by the BLM to sabotage the expansion of solar thermal electricity generation in the U.S.: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/us/27solar.html — that would be the same BLM that has been working overtime to transfer public lands to fossil fuel interests for the past 8 years or so.

Factor in the «carbon light» CO2 from coal seam gas projects in the East (and other LNG expansion in the north and west) and you're talking about Australia's fossil fuel emission exports equating to TWO Saudi Arabias by 2020, not one as I've been saying to many disbelieving ears.

They involve billions of dollars of subsidies of fossil fuel industries, of airport expansion and of road building, regulations which favour dirty technologies over clearn ones, granting planning permission for coal fire stations but refusing it for wind turbines, etc..

None of what I suggest precludes all the «green» actions proposed and already underway here in the United States, but recognizes that fossil fuels will be needed over the near term to insure a peaceful expansion of the global economy.

The point I am feebly trying to make is simply this: the adamant and relentless pursuit of fossil fuel - based economic globalization, marked so starkly as it is by the rampant expansion of unbridled business activities we are seeing today, could possibly result in either cataclysmic ecologic challenges or economic collapse or both in these early years of Century XXI.

One issue, of course, is that while the focus is on developing or refining energy technologies with limited or no emissions of greenhouse gases, the discussion is taking place in a world where real - time pressures are driving the expansion of conventional fossil fuel menus to keep up with ballooning global energy demand.

Nader said, «We do not need nuclear power... We have a far greater amount of fossil fuels in this country than we're owning up to... the tar sands... oil out of shale... methane in coal beds...» Sierra Club consultant Amory Lovins said, «Coal can fill the real gaps in our fuel economy with only a temporary and modest (less than twofold at peak) expansion of mining.»

«If the world is serious about achieving the goals agreed in Paris, governments have to stop the expansion of the fossil fuel industry,» Stephen Kretzmann, Executive Director of Oil Change International, said in a statement.

[1] «Indirect land use change» (ILUC) means that many biofuels harm the climate even more than the fossil fuels they replace — due to land use changes caused by the expansion of agriculture to meet the additional demand for crop - based biofuels.

From a global perspective, we are faced with daunting challenges as documented in World Resources, 1996 - 97: the accelerating confluence of population expansion, increased demand for energy, food, clean drinking water, adequate housing, the destructive environmental effects of pollution from fossil fuels and nuclear waste, plus the growing divergence between the haves and have - nots and the potential for ensuing conflicts.

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

Five Nobel Peace Laureates have called on Norwegian Prime Ministerial candidates to declare their intent to put an end to fossil fuel exploration and expansion.

Their plans for exploration and expansion of new fossil fuel reserves are wholly inconsistent with what is necessary for the Paris climate goals (see figure 1).

The Australian government's Energy White Paper [x] plans to facilitate the expansion of fossil fuel mining and export industries at a time when they must be phased out as fast as possible.

The political divide over nuclear energy, a carbon - neutral technology, is less pronounced than it is over fossil fuels: 57 % of conservative Republicans support the expansion of nuclear power plants versus 38 % of liberal Democrats.

Proposed Australian coal export projects collectively have been identified as the second largest proposed expansion of fossil fuel CO2 emissions after Chinese coal mining.

Biofuels based upon further expansion of unsustainable, industrial agriculture policies will intensify deforestation, toxic pollution and dependence upon fossil fuel based fertilizers worldwide.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

That same fossil fuel lobbyist had his client's pipeline - expansion plan approved by the EPA while Pruitt was living in that condo.

At a time when the federal government is jeopardizing our country's future, Governor Cuomo's legislation to prohibit offshore drilling and the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in New York waters is exactly the kind of policy that will get us on a truly sustainable path.

As mentioned in the press release:» -LRB-...) these groups released a briefing titled «Dirty Dozen: How Public Finance Drives the Climate Crisis through Oil, Gas, and Coal Expansion», highlighting fossil fuel projects by the World Bank Group, other multilateral and national development banks and export credit agencies.

As discussed last week, the Trump Administration can probably not achieve its promised economic revival without a substantial oil and gas production expansion and greatly increased exports of US fossil fuel production.