But it would be a powerful demonstration that governments can ban new climate - damaging projects and refuse to make new fosil
fuel export agreements on climate - ethical grounds.
No new fossil
fuel export agreements.
Not exact matches
That could further
fuel trade tensions and make it less likely that the United States will be able to reach the types of bilateral or multilateral
agreements that have helped expand American
exports.
«Action taken to increase Australia's capacity for fossil
fuel production — such as increasing
export capacity or commissioning new coal mines — is difficult to reconcile with the goals of the Paris
Agreement,» the report says.
Note that NMBI legislation would ban NEW fossil
fuel extraction projects and the resultant new
export agreements, but adoption of NMBI legislation would not affect current
export income.
Meanwhile, campaigners plan to use the
agreement to push Obama to stop Congress lifting a ban on oil
exports in the budget bill, and to phase out fossil
fuel extraction on public lands.