Sentences with phrase «industries fueling climate change»

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Between rising oil prices and ongoing concerns over climate change, there is growing pressure on the global shipping industry to cut its fuel consumption.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

A global awareness of climate change and the recognition that the endless combustion of fossil fuels is unsustainable is changing the game for the oil industry.

The president of Kinder Morgan Canada, Ian Anderson, recently claimed he is not smart enough to know whether human activity — i.e. the fossil fuel industry — causes climate change.

We continue to support the wheat and barley industries in the face of global challenges such as climate change, food and fuel security and sustainable agriculture practices.

According to the United Nations, the meat industry is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global», and the UN has concluded that a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to saving the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst effects of climate change.

There is an overlying awareness when assessing New York's environmentally progressive work - in - progress that the effects climate change and fossil fuel energy industries have on the environment, infrastructure and public health don't stop at state lines.

In that time, environmental and community groups turned the 124 - mile pipeline, which would have connected gas from Pennsylvania's robust fracking industry into a network of pipelines that terminate in Schoharie County, into a powerful symbol of the fossil fuel industry that causes climate change.

A quick look at the proposed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carbon budget to keep global warming below 2 °C, alongside the fossil fuel reserves held by the industry, is enough to see that the two aren't compatible.

«Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change,» he said in an email.

«These documents are breathtaking, and they reveal what many of us have long suspected: That there is a campaign afoot by groups directly funded by the fossil fuel industry and right - wing foundations such as Koch Industries to mislead the public about climate change,» Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann wrote in an email to LiveScience.

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

But the fishing industry also contributes to climate change: mostly from the carbon dioxide (CO2) from burned diesel fuel that persists in the atmosphere for hundreds of years.

While U.S. EPA recently announced carbon reduction policies that will affect the coal industry and the Obama administration has issued new rules in 2012 to sharply raise fuel economy standards for automakers, among other steps, the federal government has yet to enact serious legislation to combat climate change's impact on infrastructure.

(Reuters)- The U.S. electric industry knew as far back as 1968 that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming, but cast doubt on the science of climate change and ramped up coal use for decades afterward, an environmental watchdog group said on Tuesday.

The documents released by the EPI showed the Edison Electric Institute industry group was warned at its annual convention in 1968 by a member of then - President Lyndon Johnson's administration that carbon emissions from fossil fuels could change the climate and trigger «catastrophic effects.»

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

«This impressive group of Republican Cabinet members and presidential economic advisers shows how bipartisan progress on climate change is possible outside the electoral shadow of the fossil fuel industry's political bullying,» Whitehouse said.

The most obvious example of this is the handful of climate - change deniers paid for by the fossil - fuel industry who have been quoted in innumerable articles.

«CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry did not really change from 2014 to 2016,» says climate scientist Pierre Friedlingstein at the University of Exeter in England, and an author of the 2017 carbon budget report released by the Global Carbon Project in November.

As California policymakers consider options to extend the state's landmark climate change laws to 2030 and beyond, 155 businesses and industry groups sent a letter to California Governor Jerry Brown, Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon in support of the California Low Carbon Fuel... Read more →

«Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change.

The previous round of CAFE talks, which dates back to 2007 when the industry dropped its lawsuits against California's proposed emissions standards and set the table for the combined fuel economy and CO2 federal rules, brought auto makers to the front lines in the war against climate change.

Although the IPCC reports are conservative, accepting their validity commits the fossil - fuel industry to agreeing that (1) climate change is real, (2) humans are causing it and (3) it's dangerous.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

the fossil fuel industry's climate change denialist propaganda disguised as «science education», and to support actual science (not to mention the survival of the human species) by accepting Laurie David's offer to distribute the DVDs.

His administration — with help from Republicans in Congress — has often targeted environmental rules it sees as overly burdensome to the fossil fuel industry, including major Obama - era policies aimed at fighting climate change.»

I guess the question is, if all else was held the same — if we had our fossil fuel industry but had not invented the chlorofluorocarbons and equivalents so hadn't lost so much of the ozone layer for so long — would that change climate sensitivity?

CNN: The giant corporations powering the fossil fuel industry are warned that they face a damaging backlash if they try to resist the mounting pressures of climate change legislation and high - profile campaigning The financial and economic muscle of the global fossil fuel industry's corporate behemoths will not protect them from the costly effects of negative [continue reading...]

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

For instance, fossil fuel companies, such as Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, worked through ALEC to develop state - based legislation opposing federal standards on clean air and climate change.

How a combination of fossil fuel industry money and free market fundamentalists support PR firms like CFACT and writers like David Wojick and we end up with lame strawman arguments and delay in a rational response to address climate change: http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org

With Fuelling the Fire, we're raising the heat on councils who are still propping up the industry responsible for climate change.

The grant to Columbia Journalism School was directed at «public interest research into what the fossil fuel industry understood about the science of climate change and how they acted given that understanding both internally and regarding the public,» but it did not target Exxon Mobil specifically, Wasserman said.»

But we'll forge ahead with our aggressive reporting on environmental and energy topics, including climate change, land use, threatened ecosystems, government policy, the fossil fuel industries, the growing renewables sector and consumer choices.

To further demonstrate her progressive bona fides, Harris has now joined «AGs United For Clean Power,» a coalition of 16 other state attorney generals that will promote the climate change agenda by targeting the fossil fuel industry.

One such tactic [the group will pursue] includes facilitating ongoing and potential joint investigations into whether fossil fuel companies and industry groups mislead the public about the dangers of climate change or the viability of renewable energy resources.

Judge Denies Motions by Fossil Fuel Industry and Federal Government in Landmark Climate Change Case

Earlier this month, The Center for Media Democracy published the Trump administration's energy agenda, which CMD said «outlines fourteen policies to be expected from President - elect Trump, which collectively amounts to a fossil fuel industry wish list and which would be devastating for attempts to slow climate change.»

Charles Koch and his brother David are majority shareholders in Koch Industries, an immense conglomeration of oil and gas companies with a global reach — and a definite interest in denying any link between fossil - fuel use and climate change.

A year packed with bold climate actions against the fossil fuel industry and a growing movement telling its own stories of impacts and resistance at the frontlines of climate change in new and inspiring ways.

(2007) • Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security (2007) • Modelling Investment Risks and Uncertainties with Real Options Approach (2007) • Financing Energy Efficient Homes Existing Policy Responses to Financial Barriers (2007) • CO2 Allowance and Electricity Price Interaction - Impact on Industry's Electricity Purchasing Strategies in Europe (2007) • CO2 Capture Ready Plants (2007) • Fuel - Efficient Road Vehicle Non-Engine Components (2007) • Impact of Climate Change Policy Uncertainty on Power Generation Investments (2006) • Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China — Case Study of Standby Power Efficiency (2006) • Barriers to the Diffusion of Solar Thermal Technologies (2006) • Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (2006) • Certainty versus Ambition — Economic Efficiency in Mitigating Climate Change (2006) • Sectoral Crediting Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Institutional and Operational Issues (2006) • Sectoral Approaches to GHG Mitigation: Scenarios for Integration (2006) • Energy Efficiency in the Refurbishment of High - Rise Residential Buildings (2006) • Can Energy - Efficient Electrical Appliances Be Considered «Environmental Goods»?

President - elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, a transition official said, signaling Mr. Trump's determination to dismantle President Obama's efforts to counter climate change.

The challenges are the energy security and climate change consequences of our dependence on fossil fuels, and the opportunity to revive and expand one of our key industries through a transition to electrification.

At the province's in - person climate change consultations it became clear that civil society was suspicious of the «Cap and Trade» carbon pricing mechanism that the fossil fuel industry generally prefers.

The fossil fuel industry has gotten us into this climate mess, and listening to their advice is almost certainly going to lead to false solutions that do not result in the changes to society and emissions levels that are needed.

For decades, the fossil fuel industry and so - called «free market» ideologues at conservative thinktanks have misled the public on the science and the risks of climate change.

Like my post on how many greenhouse gasses humanity can safely emit and my post on the (absent) long - term future of the fossil fuel industry, it highlights how preventing catastrophic climate change obliges humanity to keep a significant proportion of all available fossil fuels in the ground.

In a panic, CAN activists pasted more than 1,000 «Wanted» posters outside Paris luxury hotels, falsely accusing skeptics of «having ties to the fossil fuel industry» and calling them «climate change criminals.»

If this was a CSI detective show, humans, especially the fossil fuel industry, would have been arrested long ago, thrown in jail, tried, and convicted of damaging our planet's life support system because of all the vast evidence of climate change.