Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel projects»

Together, they're calling out the hypocrisy of continued institutional investments in new fossil fuel projects.

The report revealed that 37 multinational banks funded $ 87 billion worth of carbon - intensive fossil fuels projects in 2016.

The bank is set to spend billions of dollars on fossil fuel projects abroad, including $ 14 billion on pending oil and gas projects.

Supporting community efforts to protect our oceans from fossil fuel projects, including export terminals and coal plants.

Or, at the very least, a federal government with the political backbone to say no to environmentally destructive fossil fuel projects.

The protests are targeting «some of the most iconic and dangerous fossil fuel projects on the face of the planet».

That means stopping all new coal, oil and gas infrastructure, and banning future fossil fuel projects — by 2020.

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

In fact, banks don't even have to tell the public exactly what fossil fuel projects they invest in.

And investors should challenge the strategies of companies which are using shareholder funds to develop high - cost fossil fuel projects.

And in creating jobs, polluting fossil fuel projects are no match for green fuel projects.

It adds that they should also challenge companies that are using their money to develop potentially risky fossil fuel projects.

The group asks the banks to place an immediate prohibition on loans for new fossil fuel projects and associated infrastructure, and for them to sell down stakes in coal and gas companies.

The novel suggestion was that the science of keeping the planet to 2 degrees created a new «baseline» reference point against which all future fossil fuel projects could be tested.

A new report shows how multilateral development banks, including the World Bank, gave over $ 9 billion in funding for fossil fuel projects in 2016, nearly all of it following the Paris Agreement being reached and despite claims that they were acting on climate and adjusting their investment strategies.

ECAs of OECD - member countries continue to finance fossil fuel projects despite their national government commitments to combat climate change, including global warming limits contained in last year's Paris Agreement.

«G20 leaders may like to talk about climate, but it's clear their talk is cheap,» said Kate DeAngelis, international policy analyst at Friends of the Earth U.S. «While praising each other for investing in renewable energy at home, they bankroll billions of dollars for dirty fossil fuel projects in developing countries.

With achingly slow progress at the national and international levels, Fossil Free entered a new phase of the campaign from early 2018, expanding beyond divestment to embrace new demands, tactics and tools, and the goal of stopping all new fossil fuel projects by 2020.

After providing almost $ 6 billion annually to fossil fuels from 2013 to 2015, the U.S. export credit agency — the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im)-- has been unable to finance large fossil fuel projects for the past two years.

Export credit agencies — including Ex-Im Bank — are collectively the largest source of public financing for coal and other fossil fuel projects abroad.

While overall financing of fossil fuel projects at the World Bank has gone down in recent years, support for projects that include exploration for fossil fuels has continued to rise.

When reviewing the environmental impacts of fossil fuel projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the judges said, the agency can't assume the harmful effects away by claiming that dirty fuels left untouched in one location would automatically bubble up, greenhouse gas emissions and all, somewhere else.

While the Green Party has always opposed the construction of new fossil fuel projects such as the CPV power plant in Orange County, Hawkins said that the recent corruption conviction of Cuomo's former top aide required the state to rescind the permit for the plant.

New briefings show that while some banks are making good progress, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement.

(click image below to enlarge) It's not surprising to hear over-eager developers link the Ex-Im Bank to these projects because the institution has a long history of supporting fossil fuel projects — and that track record is getting worse.

We support indigenous peoples in resisting fossil fuel projects, such as the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, which endanger the health of their lands and waters.

The company behind the Dakota Access pipeline and many other damaging fossil fuel projects — Energy Transfer Partners — was the focus of nearly 20 actions spanning 10 U.S. states last week.

China remains a major funder of fossil fuel projects around the world.

A leaked draft of his infrastructure plans calls for a rollback of environmental laws and a sell - off of public lands to speed the construction of more fossil fuel projects.

«It's hard to imagine a worse use of public money than our governments throwing it away on massive fossil fuel projects, which damage our communities and the climate,» said Alex Doukas of Oil Change International.

With the Senate set to consider these nominees, their approval could allow Ex-Im to spend hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars on dirty fossil fuel projects overseas.

The US has the greatest financial exposure, with $ 412 billion of unneeded fossil fuel projects to 2025 at risk of becoming stranded assets.

President Obama's decision on this enormous fossil fuel project by the end of the year will not be a quiet deal with oil industry lobbyists; it will be witnessed by millions of voters who had hoped that President Obama would have the vision to get America off of oil with a moonshot program for oil - free cars by the next decade.

Unhappily, the list (the «Projects of Common Interest», or PCI list) is full of high - carbon fossil fuel projects, 100 of which support fossil gas infrastructure.

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

It «arms activists with a clear set of facts that they can use to oppose new fossil fuel projects across the board.

In total, G20 ECAs provided over $ 37.9 billion annually for fossil fuels projects between 2013 and 2015.

But Hochberg has remained steadfastly determined to support outdated fossil fuel projects that should be regulated to the previous century.

An official cost - benefit study of the proposed «MidCat» gas pipeline connecting France and Spain, prepared for the European Commission, has poured scorn on the controversial fossil fuel project.

- South East Green: U.S. Sending $ 6 Billion to Subsidize Fossil Fuel Projects Abroad.

We're endorsing candidates up and down the ballot who are willing to fight for the fossil free future we need by supporting a rapid, just transition to 100 % renewable energy and opposing any new climate - wrecking fossil fuel projects — and who also share a broad, progressive vision for a just world where all of our communities can thrive.

Please add your name to the open letter, and let's build pressure on the European Commission and European public banks not to back this unjust, unnecessary and irresponsible fossil fuel project.