Sentences with phrase «fuel exploration projects»

World Bank Group finance for fossil fuel exploration projects from FY2008 to 2013 was highest in 2013, at nearly $ 1 billion out of $ 2.7 billion total for fossil fuel projects.

Not exact matches

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While geothermal projects require significant up - front capital investments, especially for exploration, drilling, and power plant construction, the typically low operation cost — including zero expense for fuel — means that over their lifetimes geothermal power plants are often cost - competitive with fossil fuel or nuclear power plants.

New analysis released today by Oil Change International finds that World Bank Group finance for projects that included exploration for new fossil fuel resources reached a new high in FY2013, at nearly $ 1 billion out of the $ 2.7 billion spent in total for fossil fuel projects.

Financing for fossil fuel exploration continued at significant levels, in spite of the fact that this lending supports the expansion of projects that threaten the climate.

It can be a ban on all new fossil fuel projects of any kind or it could focus on exploration, extraction, transportation, generation — or even the use of your local natural resources like water for use in fossil fuel projects.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

As a first step, the banks should commit to ending finance for fossil fuel exploration and provide transparency about project emissions.»

It calls for «immediate and ambitious action to stop exploration and expansion of fossil fuel projects and manage the decline of existing production» and notes that «the carbon embedded in existing fossil fuel production will take us far beyond safe climate limits» and «many existing projects will need to be phased - out faster than their natural decline.»

The list is long and worth many billions (sorry for caps); — GREENHOUSE GAS ABATEMENT PROGM (Carbon capture)-- NON-RECOVERY OF PUBLIC AGENCY COSTS — PETROLEUM EXPLORATION TAX CONCESSIONS — RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE — DIRECT SUBSIDIES TO FOSSIL FUEL PROJECTS — DIESEL FUEL REBATE SCHEME — EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUELS Ethanol production which is an energy sink)-- CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR FUEL OIL, — HEATING OIL AND KEROSENE — CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR AVIATION FUEL — EXCISE FREE STATUS FOR CONDENSATE — SUBSIDISED SUPPLY OF COAL - FIRED ELECTRICITY TO — ALUMINIUM SMELTERS — STATE ENERGY SUPPLY CONCESSIONS — ELECTRICITY PRICING STRUCTURES — SUBSIDIES FOR CENTRALISED GENERATION

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.

Providing tens of billions of dollars every year to new fossil fuel projects, including the exploration and production of new fossil fuels, will catapult the world's global warming past the 2 degree Celsius ceiling of the Paris Agreement.

The 50 per cent drop in oil price over the past year is none other than a very intentional effort to take off the table very expensive fossil - fuel exploration and projects that will not be viable with lower prices.

Slowing down fossil fuel development also renders moot projects that would spend big dollars on fossil fuel exploration and extraction, such as the Keystone pipeline.

The Declarations affirm that it is the urgent responsibility and moral obligation of wealthy fossil fuel producers as well as public and private investors and development institutions to lead in «stopping exploration and expansion of fossil fuel projects and managing the decline of existing production in line with what is necessary to achieve the Paris climate goals.»

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