Sentences with phrase «fuel investment out»

The ConBrio B.E.S.T. Income Fund had the highest level of fossil fuel investment out of those we looked at.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer say the divestment of roughly $ 5 billion in fossil fuel investments out of a total of $ 189 billion over five NYC pension funds is the largest of any municipality in the United States to date.

Not exact matches

«The investment from Portag3 will enable us to build out a regional team, deliver on Canadian consumer requirements, and fuel innovation in Canadian financial services.»

Nipco's investment subsidiary bought 60 % of Mobil Oil Nigeria shares from Exxon Mobil Corporation in October, when the latter pulled out of downstream fuel distribution in Nigeria.

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.

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The chief drivers have been high current account deficits fuelled (literally) by oil - the sluggishness of the Indian economy driving out foreign investments, which had been impacted by the tapering of the quantitative easing program of the Federal Reserve Read more -LSB-...]

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-- Put a sufficiently high price on carbon and deliver the G - 20 commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, using these funds to contribute to the several hundred billion US dollars per year needed to scale up investments in renewable energy.

To estimate how much of these investments is in fossil fuel shares, a script pulls out the top 15 of each fund's investments.

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Use the map and table below to find out about your council's fossil fuel investments or rank councils against each other.

A script pulled out the direct fossil fuel investments using the Carbon Underground 200 that identifies the top 100 public coal companies globally and the top 100 public oil and gas companies globally, ranked by the potential carbon emissions content of their proven reserves.

Maintaining the momentum, and not forgetting where we started out, we rejoined with our Divest London friends at the beginning of 2016 with a sea - shanty / flooding themed event at City Hall, and celebrated a short while later when all four leading candidates for Mayor of London committed to work to phase out London - wide fossil fuel investments.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) voted today to hand out one of Europe's largest ever loans to one of the EU's largest fossil fuel projects, the contentious Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP).

Prague, Brussels, Rome, London — Today the board of directors of the European Investment Bank (EIB) green - lighted a EUR 93 million loan to the Trans Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP), the Turkish section of the Southern Gas Corridor, a month after handing out the largest ever fossil fuels loan to the western section of the same project.

If fossil fuels will eventually run out, (a common theme if you believe the earth is round) then investment in fossil fuel replacement is infinitely cheaper than re-investing in a dying industry.

Yes, let's get out of fossil fuel investment.

The Carbon Tracker Initiative is an independent financial think tank that carries out in - depth risk analysis on the impact of the energy transition on capital markets and the potential investment in high - cost, carbon - intensive fossil fuels.

In accord with those values, we now move that the University makes a binding public commitment to phase out, at the least, over no more than five years, all investments in fossil fuel companies listed in the Carbon Tracker Top 200, seeking where advisable alternative investments in renewable energy.

He reminded the gathering of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's 2014 call for UCT to phase out its fossil fuel investments.

But as they also phase out investment in fossil fuels, and as concern around climate change grows, they should consider relaxing these restrictions.

In 3 legislative files currently negotiated in Brussels the European Parliament progressed on financing matters: reporting on Fossil Fuel Subsidies phase - out; the linking the EU budget comes to national climate ambitions; a climate impact assessment tool for EU investments; and a 40 % climate earmarking target for the Juncker Investment Plan.

While overall spending on climate - related activities is higher than on fossil fuels, there is still a lack of progress in phasing out fossil fuel investments and increasing climate finance.

Some INDCs point out that climate - related investments can save on costs elsewhere, including reduced need for fuel and reduced damage in the case of climate - related disasters.

They announced their decision to move its entire investment portfolio out of the fossil fuel industry over the next three years.

In the UK, a significant group of corporate investors is being warned that they may need to screen out fossil fuels, as many do with other types of investment, such as tobacco, armaments and pornography.

Oil and gas pipelines are a typical analogy for the scale and nature of infrastructure required, but have significant differences: the science of fossil fuel reserves was limited when much of the industry was created, and under business - as - usual the price of oil can be expected to rise as reserves go down, thus stretching out the time in which the investment is worthwhile.

And compare the size of the investment gap with the $ 500 billion or more being doled out every year in the form of government subsidies that help support fossil fuel operations.

Business representatives attending the conference said this was an important signal that investments in green technology would be a safe bet, and anyone with investments in coal, in particular, and other fossil fuels in general would be sensible to get their money out as quickly as possible.

And Harvard still feels pulling its investments out of fossil fuels would «diminish the influence or voice we might have with this industry.»

«As the world's greatest purchasers and users of energy, business and industries are best positioned to lead the shift from fossil fuel to renewables and reach the ambitions set out in the Paris Agreement», said Jeanett Bergan, Head of Responsible Investments at KLP.

If the world moves towards low - carbon energy, as it should — and the big integrated fossil fuel companies fail to adapt — then divesting from oil, gas and coal investments could turn out to be smart business, as well as a good, albeit symbolic, politics.

You might like to ponder what has changed since I wrote a letter on 16 Feb 1979 quoting the Chairman of the U.K. Central Electricity Generating Board, Mr R England, who wrote ``... the only proven way in which the predicted shortage of fossil fuels can be counterbalanced in the field of electricity generation is by increasing out investment in nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would be...»

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

Roome refused to rule out fossil fuel investments in the future, but said they would be subject to strict criteria, to do with their necessity, ensuring the most efficient technology was used, and investigation of alternatives.

Despite billions of dollars of investment in the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to carry out environmental stewardship duties, the State of Minnesota insists on having the Department of Commerce do the environmental review for the largest fossil fuel infrastructure mega-project in state history.

For the first time, Renewables 2017 looks at an accelerated case forecast for biofuels that assumes additional investment in new production capacity in Brazil; scaling up fuel distribution infrastructure in the United States; and roll - out of a blending programme in India.

And his plan worked out: UN Secretary - General António Guterres urged that he no longer supports fossil fuels because this would amount to an «investment in destruction».

The good news is that investors are also making a stand: $ 5.2 trillion in assets have been pledged to be pulled out from fossil fuel investments.

With so much growth, there must be a driver: a new player or a reinvigorated heavy - hitter who has tapped into something to shake a formerly moribund sector out of its daze, an innovation fueling demand for investment.