Sentences with phrase «fueled by fossil fuels»

And, yes, its economic growth was fueled by fossil fuels.

An email from Lenny Bernstein, ExxonMobil Chemical Engineer to the Director of the Ohio University Institute of Applied and Professional Ethics that discuses how Exxon was aware of climate change fueled by the fossil fuel industry back in 1981.

Not exact matches

By taxing fossil fuels and subsidizing renewables, governments can tilt the playing field toward a brighter future.

Fossil fuel usage, meanwhile, is expected to hit its ceiling in 2030 at 2.93 billion tons of oil equivalent with coal expected to continue as the top energy source for China by 2050.

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

It has been based on the production of lies developed by the fossil fuel industry through industry - funded conservative think - tanks, laundered through conservative foundations, spun and repeated by right - wing media outlets, and adopted as ideology by the Republican Party.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

A campaign by the Guardian has called on the Gates foundation and the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest medical research charity, to divest their large endowments of fossil fuels.

If the world's governments fulfil their pledges to tackle climate change by cutting carbon emissions, many fossil fuel reserves would have to be kept in the ground, potentially wasting trillions of investors» money.

While the money is modest compared with that donated by fossil fuel interests, the support provides GOP candidates with added credibility on clean energy, an issue polling shows swing voters care about.

As the Washington Post reported, natural gas is overtaking coal as the fossil fuel of choice for electricity generation — the report forecasts that by 2019, coal will provide 28 % of US electricity, whereas natural gas will make up 34 %.

Further, Delkus wrote, Canada's federal government also has joined other members of the Group of Seven industrial nations to reduce reliance on fossil fuels by between 40 percent and 70 percent by 2050.

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

Critics say Dominion should move more quickly to help address climate change by phasing out fossil fuels, including natural gas.

Thursday's tax reform bill maintains tax breaks for fossil fuel, but removes a $ 7,500 credit for electric cars and cuts the benefit from a wind credit by a third.

Carbon dioxide is mainly emitted by burning fossil fuels.

The New Plastics Economy presents three key platforms: creating an effective after - use plastics economy by improving global recycling efforts, reducing the leakage of plastic waste into the environment, and decoupling plastic from the fossil fuels used to create it.

Climate change, driven by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.

Besides, as some savvy environmentalists are arguing, trying to reduce GHG emissions by chocking fossil fuel supplies — rather than reducing demand for them — is tilting at windmills.)

The first is climate change, exacerbated by the greenhouse gases we encourage by burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, and farming the way we do (particularly for meat production).

Einstein wanted to find a simple harmonious truth about how the universe works and Musk wants to save our species by weaning us off of fossil fuels and establishing a colony on Mars,» she says.

As he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sources.

Volvo Cars, owned outright by Hangzhou, China - based Geely Auto, has already stated it will cease production of fossil fuel - powered vehicles by 2020.

One group of 13 leading mayors recently pledged to «transition to Fossil - Fuel - Free Streets by:

Energy Secretary Rick Perry implored energy industry leaders on Wednesday to embrace a new era of innovation enabled by fewer regulations, fossil - fuel development and Trump tax cuts.

Perry said the United States can achieve this future only by casting aside the «energy pessimism» of past generations, which held that the United States could not produce new fossil fuels cleanly or affordably.

The energy industry is now enabled by fewer regulations, fossil - fuel developments and Trump tax cuts, Perry says.

China has already hit peak coal, but the fossil fuel does still account for 65 % of the country's power generated by source.

Unconventional gas development (UGD), characterized by advances in engineering, including horizontal drilling and high volume hydraulic fracturing, enables extraction of large amounts of fossil fuel from shale deposits at depths that were previously unapproachable [1].

They assume we possess no competitive advantage in the sector, and have been lulled into complacency by virtue of our abundant fossil fuel resources.

These 15 risks are: Lack of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock - in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine, Accelerating Transport Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by Climate Change & Cyber Threats.

Inspired by the Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign, the London panelists developed a global opportunity to address the excessive use of antibiotics in agriculture.

Having acknowledged the need to turn from the overdependence on fossil fuels to more environmentally friendly sources of energy, the government has tried to encourage the production of automobiles that use alternative sources of fuel by trying to give tax incentives to any buyers of such cars.

While Germany's official Energiewende strategy calls for a transition from fossil fuel and nuclear energy to renewable energy, and reduction of emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, the recently formed German government is more conservative than the previous governments.

Using lifecycle analysis, a study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada found that while all forms of electricity generation have environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.

Natural gas turbines replaced solar power capacity during the August 21st solar eclipse, highlighting the carbon - light fossil fuel's emerging role as a gateway «green» energy in the coming decades, according to a report by Fortune released before the sun took its proverbial nap.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of Canada who now heads up the Bank of England, legitimized the concept of the carbon bubble by confirming that the «vast majority of [fossil fuel] reserves are unburnable» if we are to avoid dangerous climate disruption.

That's why it is expected that by 2020, only 22 % of electricity will be generated from the fossil fuel.

If you don't think people consume too much by way of fossil fuels, then there's no need for a carbon tax.»

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

Furthermore, efforts at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A, +0.62 % to move beyond fossil fuels into low - carbon energy is as much driven by the growth potential of alternative energy markets as a concern for global warming.

«I believe that full and fair disclosures by Peabody and other fossil fuel companies will lead investors to think long and hard about the damage these companies are doing to our planet.»

A study by HSBC, a large British bank, found an immense threat to global financial stability from stranding unburned fossil fuels.

Climate change activists around the city, including the leader of a Sunset Park group, are praising a decision by the de Blasio administration to divest $ 5 billion in pension holdings from companies dealing in fossil fuel.

Marking the divestment movement's «undeniable success,» a new report shows the value of funds controlled by individuals and institutions who have vowed to dump their fossil fuels assets now surpasses $ 5 trillion.

Investing for impact in public equities can include divesting from companies considered harmful to the environment, as embodied by 350.org's fossil fuel divestment campaign.

The dramatic and protracted downturn in the oil price has been posited by many as heralding the end of fossil fuels.

The small business is doing its part to reduce emissions by cutting its reliance on fossil fuels.

The report, hinged on the implications of climate change, came at a time when energy experts were insisting that unless countries drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions by moving away from fossil fuels, climate change would remain inevitable.