Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel export»

Five future reports are planned on how to eliminate emissions from other sectors (Transport, Buildings, Land Use and Agriculture, Industrial Processes, and Replacing Fossil Fuel Export Revenue).

The current fossil fuel export proposals — which would put dangerous and toxic materials into the heart of the tribes» treaty - reserved fishing areas — are nothing less than an existential threat to the people who have depended on this landscape since time immemorial.

This suggests the need for more local action in Canada and eventually an international regime of fossil fuel export controls.

No new fossil fuel export agreements.

It's another stiff blow to the Northwest's besieged fossil fuel industry; a number of other proposed fossil fuel export projects in the region have been killed in recent years.

It's perhaps also worth noting that that the pace of fossil fuel export emission growth in Australia is accelerating rather than contracting, in spite of a carbon tax and a resources tax.

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.

She acknowledged that Canada's historic reliance on fossil fuel exports represents a unique hurdle in building a clean economy.

Billions of dollars in fossil fuel exports pay for nearly all the things Canada doesn't produce; Canada is a net importer of everything else.

Analysts believe OPEC could boost production later this year, but only if prices rise above $ 70 or $ 75 a barrel, a level deemed appropriate by OPEC states whose national budgets depend on fossil fuel exports.

In sum, Norway is an extremely wasteful and polluting country, even without considering its fossil fuel exports.

Such nations might choose to tax their fossil fuel exports so that they can get that revenue for themselves — fine).

The question of fossil fuel exports is much bigger than this policy.

While Russia remains an important supplier to its traditional markets in Europe, a shift in its fossil fuel exports towards China and the Asia - Pacific gathers momentum.

Any domestic emissions cuts will be far outweighed by planned exponential growth of fossil fuel exports.

Finally, we learned Australia must support its carbon price with other new and existing policies to address domestic emissions, and start phasing out its fossil fuel exports.

Domestic emissions are only one part of Australia's contribution to climate change, which also includes emissions from the burning of fossil fuel exports (which dwarf domestic emissions) and emissions from the manufacture of imported products.

That means the market for Australia's fossil fuel exports will need to «rapidly reduce and ultimately disappear».

«Fossil fuel exports account for around 16 percent of Russian GDP, 52 percent of government revenue and 70 percent of Russian exports, so it makes sense that Russian propaganda efforts would be focused on protecting their fragile economy,» Droz said.

We might feel incredibly proud of that achievement, and so we should, but our actual climate impact from fossil fuel exports would still be double the climate impact from all the fossil fuels we currently use within Australia.

So, yes, it is important to maintain Australia's future export income, but given the small amount of export income we actually receive from fossil fuel exports, it should be relatively easy to replace that with new climate - safe exports and new foreign investment in local renewable energy projects provided we plan and prepare accordingly.

Likewise the leadership of fossil fuel exporting nations such as Russia that acknowledge climate change but are sluggish to implement effective policies are similarly primarily responsible for global warming.

Even if they meet those targets, any actual climate benefit could be more than wiped out by the climate impacts of the fossil fuels exported from the NEW extraction projects they continue to approve in the meantime.

Of course we need to stop new fossil projects of all types for climate reasons regardless of what it might cost us, but it seems we are not as dependent on fossil fuel exports for our prosperity anywhere as much as the fossil fuel industry tends to imply.

No new fossil fuel extraction is needed for use within Australia so new extraction projects simply mean more fossil fuel exports.

Norway does the same thing by the way, it's set itself this fab goal of being carbon neutral by 2050 but in the process refuses to count the carbon content of it's massive fossil fuel exports — instead running itself on hydro to hit it's targets.

In response to campaigns launched by climate activists to impose regulations and controls on U.S. exports of coal, liquefied natural gas and oil, corporate trade lawyers and dirty energy apologists are insisting that government controls on fossil fuel exports are illegal under international trade and investment law.

Dirty energy apologists are ignoring the economic and scientific data that call out for regulation and control of U.S. fossil fuel exports.

In addition, fossil fuel exports can be controlled indirectly through local decisions on whether to permit coal, liquefied natural gas or oil export terminals, among other measures.

But President Obama also has some other big tools at his disposal: Rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline, ending destructive oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and on public lands, stopping mountaintop - removal mining, curbing fossil fuel exports, and closing loopholes that exempt drilling and fracking for oil and gas from fundamental environmental protections.

A leaked European proposal for TTIP energy provisions similarly would expand fossil fuel exports from the U.S. to the EU.

San Francisco wants to lead the nation in limiting fossil fuel exports.

The Obama Administration's ramp - up of fossil fuel exports is at odds with its push for a global climate deal.

The Trump administration's obsession with fossil fuel exports plays into Beijing's grand strategy to become the next high - tech superpower.

Australia should aim for zero emissions unconditional on international action, start phasing out its fossil fuel exports, and play a constructive role in climate talks.

Not exact matches

That logic is another reason why OPEC countries have less of an incentive to cut back production: renewable energy sources is starting to give fossil fuels some serious competition, and oil - exporting countries have an interest in keeping oil a cheap alternative.

My 11 - year - old self would never have believed that 50 years later our governments would be continuing to prop up the extraction and export of fossil fuels, rather than leaping to embrace the green future that awaited us.

Shipping solid bitumen diluted with toxic fossil fuel condensate for export bypasses the last remaining refinery in Burnaby.

Yet the opponents of fossil fuels don't seem to care that their opposition to pipelines will damage Canadian exports and competitiveness.

«According to a World Bank estimate, the total exports of the Arab world other than fossil fuels amount to less than those of Finland, a country of five million inhabitants,» observed Bernard Lewis.

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

Ban the export credit guarantee department from underwriting risky investment in foreign fossil fuel projects.»

Decarbonization is bad for the current Russian economy, which is heavily dependent on fossil fuel extraction and exports.

The U.S. Export - Import Bank (USEXIM) is the third - largest supporter of fossil fuels among all G20 countries, according to a new report out today from Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth U.S., and WWF's European Policy Office.

And after Rick Perry's first policy speech as Energy Secretary we now know which energy stocks will keep on going in today's new reality - fracking, mining and exporting fossil fuels overseas.

In other words, the fossil fuels Venezuela, Iraq, and Russia export have no relevance to US electricity generation.

Since global fossil fuel use is dominated by the G8, and since much deforestation involves raw material export to G8 countries, the failure to plainly address these issues is an abdication of responsibility.

She described a significant contrast between the stances of Saudi Arabia and another developing country exporting fossil fuels — in this case South Africa and its coal:

Fossil - fuel exports of all stripes — Coal exports have been trending into record - high territory for the past few years, the Obama administration is decidedly bullish on exporting natural gas, and exports of refined petroleum products continue to be among the leaders across the board.

Updated below, 12:51 p.m. A comprehensive and sobering Associated Press story by Dina Cappiello provides a valuable update on how United States policies promoting exports of coal are undercutting domestic efforts to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas released when fossil fuels are burned.