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Still, with an increasing number of economists warning of fossil fuel investments becoming «stranded assets», there's a sound economic case to be made for divestment.

Not exact matches

Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico's most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $ 1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.

Growth has been fueled by the growth of household and foreign debt rather than by business investment, and we have become dangerously reliant on the resource sector.

If radical action against fossil fuels becomes necessary, these investments will suddenly turn bad.

According to the the Marshall Foundation, «Sixteen nations, including Germany, became part of the [Marshall] program... European nations received... shipments of food, staples, fuel and machinery from the United States and later resulted in investment in industrial capacity in Europe.»

Unfortunately, a below average operating performance fueled by a distracting and misguided international growth plan, combined with a disastrous investment record, has become the defining characteristic of Commercial Metals.

However, if some (or many) of these efforts have some smoke - and - mirror aspect to them, or if they become the seemingly easy «solution du jour» and allow us to think that we can avoid larger solutions (fuel efficiency standards; carbon tax, or firm carbon cap combined with a robust and regulated carbon credit trading mechanism; substantial investments in new energy technologies; energy conservation; etc.), their net impact can be more damaging than beneficial.

In fact, many people (including the Governor of the Bank of England) are increasingly concerned that most fossil fuels are unburnable, meaning many existing reserves and investments in future exploration are in very real danger of becoming worthless.

Fossil fuel investments could become the «sub-prime assets of the future,» warned British energy secretary Ed Davey.

As a recent report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative highlights, grid costs become prohibitive for coal in rural areas when the investment needed to build a thermal power plant is combined with the cost of building electricity grid extensions and importing fuel.

Yet if you know the price of energy will keep going up over time, fuel efficiency becomes a prime consideration the next time such an investment needs to be made.

However, if H2 will become profitable sooner, new investments in fossil fuels will stop and will go to investments in H2 and RE.

But consider this: if the cost of PV / electrolytic or cyanobacterial fuel (using environmental CO2) becomes competitive with current natural gas, an investment in such a plant is completely hedged, in terms of being «green».

Super funds and banks are becoming under increased pressure to divest thermal coal and other fossil fuel investments and account for their lending and direct equity portfolios.

Earlier this month, Unity College in Maine became the first in the nation to meet our demands and fully divest from fossil fuels (Hampshire College in Massachusetts has also passed a sustainable investment policy that effectively divests them from fossil fuels).

The southern New Zealand city of Dunedin has become the latest to vote to drop millions of dollars of investments in fossil fuels, in a bid to slash carbon emissions and limit the impacts of climate change...

Given that Cape Town is seeking to become more resource - efficient and resilient, it is hypocritical for the municipality to retain its investments in fossil fuels, which worsen the impact of climate change.

This strategy rests on the assumption that investments and follow - up can reduce the costs of renewable energy technologies and enable them to become competitive with conventional fossil fuel - based technologies.

In 2012, Bills article «Do the Math» for Rolling Stone magazine became one of the most read articles in the magazine's history and changed the way the world thought about investment in fossil fuels.

Suddenly investments in U.S. corn - based ethanol distilleries became hugely profitable, unleashing an investment frenzy that will convert one fourth of the 2009 U.S. grain harvest into fuel for cars.