Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel management»

The thrust of the roadmap paper puts the onus squarely on fossil fuel management to respond properly to how growing climate regulation, advances in cleaner technology, cheaper renewables, and greater energy efficiency hit demand and the implications those global trends have for commodity prices.

Carbon Tracker believes that fossil fuel management are overly focused on demand and price scenarios that assume business as usual and so there may be a risk assessment «gap» between a management's view of the future and that which would result from action on climate change, technology developments and changing economic assumptions.

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RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM Inc.) today announced the launch of the RBC Vision Fossil Fuel Free Global Equity Fund.

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Amalgamated, a left - leaning bank with roots in the labor movement that manages more than $ 40 billion in assets under management, said it would adopt new policies about lowering its exposure to the fossil fuel industry in its own investments and its loans.

The findings highlight the urgent need for policy - makers worldwide to re-think the issue as many decision - makers, national and internationally, assume that fossil fuel emissions can be offset through sequestering carbon by planting trees and other land management practices.

However, the proposal, which promoted fossil fuel development in parts of the region and allowed motorized recreation, met with stiff opposition from both environmental and tribal groups, as well as from the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.

Yet if greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are not reduced at all, in a business - as - usual scenario, water management will clearly not suffice to outweigh the negative climate effects.

However, the Management and Guest Contributors at WUWT accept the basic truth that CO2, water vapor, and other «greenhouse gases» are responsible for an ~ 33ºC boost in mean Earth temperature, that CO2 levels are rising, partly due to our use of fossil fuels, that land use has changed Earth's albedo, and that this human actvity has caused additional warming.

«In the first place, there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels,» Black told Exxon's Management Committee, according to a written version he recorded later.

Roger Bezdek, energy analyst, Management Information Services, sent a short note referring to a presentation he gave in 2008 positing a peak in total fossil fuel production and resulting forecast for carbon dioxide concentrations:

In case you missed it, Shaffer, Gary, 2009 («Long time management of fossil fuel resources to limit global warming and avoid ice age onsets,» Geophys.

Renewable energy generation and management needs to be supported, and the use of fossil fuels needs to be discouraged in all areas — in industry, in agriculture, and in residential communities.

State Street Corp.'s asset management arm on Wednesday launched its first fossil - fuel free exchange - traded fund, citing investors» concerns over climate change.

Mark Campanale, Carbon Tracker Founder and Executive Director, said: «These disclosure principles go to the very core of the energy transition that is underway — they show investors and markets the extent to which individual fossil fuel companies may be at risk, as well as management's plans for addressing the looming issue.

The articles revealed that Exxon's top management (NYSE: XOM) knew as far as back as the late 1970s of the threat of global warming from the burning of fossil fuels.

In the event that politicians start to act with serious risk management against increasingly devastating climate impacts, the fossil fuel assets then

Potentially stranded fossil fuel assets are largely why responsible climate risk management is being opposed today by fossil fuel companies and libertarian right - wing forces.

And the club's Super PAC disclosures show that its wealthy donors include some heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry and connected to the Koch brothers, like hedge fund manager Paul Singer of Elliott Management, and Quantum Energy, a Houston private equity and venture capital firm specializing in oil and gas.

Fear of stranded assets motivates fossil fuel companies to oppose responsible climate risk management and prop up climate science deniers

Together, replacing fossil fuels in electricity generation with renewable sources of energy, switching to plug - in hybrid cars, going to all - electric railways, banning deforestation, and sequestering carbon by planting trees and improving soil management will drop carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 more than 80 percent below today's levels.

An overarching framework for right - wing and fossil fuel opposition to climate science and climate risk management can be found at Greenpeace's website ExxonSecrets, which documents «Exxon Foundation and corporate funding to a series of institutions who have worked to undermine solutions to global warming and climate change.»

At every level, from macroeconomic management to the day - to - day business of money markets, the tide is turning against fossil fuels.

Ending tropical forest loss, improving tropical forest management, and restoring 500 million hectares of tropical forests could reduce emissions enough to provide 10 - 15 years of extra time to reduce the use of fossil fuels, they write.

Currently, the group is working on fossil fuel divestment of the OTPP, one of the largest and most successful money management funds in the world.

The «Management, Discussion & Analysis» (MD&A) component of Regulation S - K requires fossil fuel companies to identify the material legal, technological, political and scientific trends that may affect their businesses and discuss the impact on the company's financial condition and results of operations.

In order of reduction, they call for controlling nitrogen oxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels using «maximum feasible reductions,» which could reduce reactive nitrogen emissions by 55 billion pounds of a year; increasing the efficiency of fertilizing crops (33 billion pounds a year); improved animal management policies (33 billion pounds); and ensuring that at least half the world's urban population has sewage treatment (11 billion pounds).

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Adopt the risk - management mitigation and adaptation strategies in the IPCC reports, with adequate increased funding for non fossil - fuel energy (solar, wind, geothermal, fusion).

Years earlier, one climate researcher at the company, Henry Shaw, had called management's attention to a key conclusion of a landmark National Academy of Sciences report: global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, not a scarcity of supply, would likely set the ultimate limit on the use of fossil fuels.

Last year, more than twice as much money was put into new capacity for renewables such as solar and wind power than into new power stations burning fossil fuels, according to a new analysis by the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

These include making renewable energy carriers available on - site by using more electricity and district heating instead of fossil fuels for processes, using more environmentally - friendly materials for lower emissions in production (e.g. recycled steel, and solid wood), better thinking around transport of surplus masses (soil / rock / gravel), and improved waste management and recycling.

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Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

In 1977, Black told Exxon's management committee of top executives that emerging science showed that carbon dioxide levels were rising, likely driven by fossil fuel use, and such increases would boost global temperatures, leading to widespread damage.

If enacted, backers say the bills would drive growth for renewables, battery storage and demand management, as well as help the state reduce the need for fossil fuel peaker plants.

The Net Load Peak Energy Bill would require the CPUC and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to work with CAISO to set up, by the end of 2019, «policies or procedures» through which LSEs meet «net peak load» energy and reliability needs «while minimizing the use of fossil fuels and utilizing low - carbon technologies and electrical grid management strategies.»

Our opportunity here isn't only about protecting the ocean waters of America, marine life, a favorite surf break, jobs or a given beach community; it's about demanding that our government utilize the best available science and data and listen to the massive outpouring of public opposition to destructive offshore oil and gas development, to shift the tides of energy development instead away from fossil fuels and toward renewables; it's about holding our President and federal agencies accountable for decisions they make about the management of the ocean; it's about protecting the ocean and every coastline from the atrocity and injustice of offshore drilling and exploration; it's about protecting clean water, air and beaches now and for the future; it's about protecting one another, and the Earth.

Last week, an investment management firm called Aperio said it ran a series of back - tested simulations and found removing fossil - fuel companies from a well - diversified portfolio has little or no impact on returns.

Over the past five years, and growing dramatically leading up to and post-Paris COP 21, a movement of institutional and individual investors representing more than $ 3.4 tn in assets under management have divested a portion of their fossil fuel investments and committed to divesting the balance in the next five years.

Management chose to ignore those warnings and continued pursuing fossil fuel extraction unabated, while spreading climate science disinformation and downplaying the risks of fossil fuels.

And yet, in the face of global warming caused by fossil fuel use, the current administration has so far moved sluggishly to address our addiction to these fuels and its damaging dovetail with public lands management.

The pollutants produced by burning fossil fuels have been largely controlled by catalytic converters, reformulated gasoline, smoke stack scrubbers and other improvements in ignition, fuel management and exhaust systems.

Recent reports from Impax Asset Management (PDF), MSCI (PDF) and Aperio Group (PDF) support the claim that removing fossil fuel investments from portfolios has a negligible impact.

«Recent public discourse, unfortunately, seems to ignore the inarguable truth that divestment [from fossil fuels] would be costly,» wrote Mark Kritzman, CEO of investment advising firm Windham Capital Management, in a discussion abstract for an upcoming conference titled The Cost of Socially Responsible Investing.

Chevron's filing also cites numerous statutes that refute the plaintiffs» claims that fossil fuels unreasonably interfere with public rights, including the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1992, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Mining and Minerals Policy Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and the Federal Lands Policy Management Act, all of which specifically call for the production of oil and natural gas within the United States:

350 Massachusetts and Better Future Project have just announced that on June 17th they will be presenting to Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (PRIM) about the case for fossil fuel divestment.

According to Discovery News: «In a 2006 report, EPA officials stated that they investigated 86 complaints of damage to human health or the environment caused by «fossil - fuel - combustion waste management units» between 1994 and 2004.

Economist Bard Harstad with the Kellogg School of Management argues that climate coalitions could quickly slash carbon emissions by purchasing and conserving marginal fossil fuel deposits, a strategy that would solve the current problem of carbon leakage, i.e. when cutting emissions in one place pushes others to burn more elsewhere.

«[E] nding tropical forest loss, improving tropical forest management, and restoring 500 million hectares of tropical forests could reduce sufficient emissions to provide 10 - 15 years of additional time to dramatically reduce our use of fossil fuels,» the report states.