Sentences with phrase «keep fossil fuels in the ground in»

The delegation called on the administration to keep fossil fuels in the ground in front of hundreds of delegates and the media.

This was an important step in the effort to keep fossil fuels in the ground in Latin America.

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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.

The initiative, known as Yasuní - ITT, failed to raise the necessary funds as northern Annex 1 countries balked at contributing to keeping fossil fuels in the ground — a strategy that is now a scientific imperative if the world is to meet its declared goal of avoiding a 2 °C rise in temperature.

This post dates back to mid-March, but it covers ground that's worth keeping in mind in any discussion of energy and climate: fossil fuels...

But what does the future look like for fossil fuels in a world where there is increasing pressure to keep them in the ground?

The accepted need to keep 80 % of known fossil fuels in the ground is not compatible with a fracking boom, however tough the regulations.

Our panel will explore various financial strategies for how we can keep fossil fuels in the ground to prevent catastrophic climate change.

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Obama said that the US was going to «lead by example» on climate change, and that meant «we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground ``.

Economics is one rubric that works to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

McKibben [255], published in a popular magazine, uses quantitative results of M2009 to conclude that most remaining fossil fuel reserves must be left in the ground, if global warming this century is to be kept below 2 °C.

The implication is that the world must move rapidly to carbon - free energies and energy efficiency, leaving most remaining fossil fuels in the ground, if climate is to be kept close to the Holocene range and climate disasters averted.

The G8 didn't commit to take meaningful actions to curb C02 emissions by keeping fossil fuels or their oxidation products in the ground.

These measures are a blow to those of us who believe we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground at all costs.

As we've learned from what's called «the terrifying math of global warming», we need to leave a huge amount of fossil fuels that have been discovered in the ground instead of burning them into the atmosphere in order to keep the planet from warming so much as to make it inhospitable to human life.

They want coal, oil and gas to be kept in the ground because they know the damage the fossil fuel industry does to our planet and our species.

That will look like a number of things, first, continuing fights around the world to keep fossil fuel in the ground, and second, continuing to follow the money and expose the corporations and industries that stand in the way of progress.

Shareholder action can be an effective tool to make small reforms at a company — such as pressuring Apple to institute better labour practices at the factories it works with in China — but it won't achieve the fundamental changes to the business model of the fossil fuel industry needed: keeping their coal, oil and gas reserves in the ground.

By what strategy will we actually manage to keep the fossil - fuels in the ground?

«The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies,» said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth U.S. «Rather than promoting dirty fossil fuels like tar sands and fracked natural gas, Obama and Barroso should be doing everything they can to keep these fuels in the ground and help avert climate catastrophe.»

The new IPCC report shows that we must keep roughly 80 - to - 95 % of proven reserves of fossil fuels in the ground if we want a decent shot at avoiding catastrophe.

Bloomberg points out that the Obama Administration is «facing mounting calls from conservationists to thwart new fossil fuel development as part of the «keep it in the ground» movement» — which Murkowski says is a «misguided» effort that «will harm local economies and threaten future energy supplies.»

Trudeau and his colleagues have a choice, either go down in history as government that sacrificed climate action and Indigenous reconciliation for a pipeline, or recognize that thousands of people in Canada are ready to support real climate action that respects Indigenous rights and keeps fossil fuels in the ground.

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In 2016, our fellowship provided 6 students and 3 team leads in New Hampshire, Colorado and Virginia to organize youth and students on state ballot initiatives and on elections that will keep fossil fuels in the ground and ensure a just transition to 100 % renewable energIn 2016, our fellowship provided 6 students and 3 team leads in New Hampshire, Colorado and Virginia to organize youth and students on state ballot initiatives and on elections that will keep fossil fuels in the ground and ensure a just transition to 100 % renewable energin New Hampshire, Colorado and Virginia to organize youth and students on state ballot initiatives and on elections that will keep fossil fuels in the ground and ensure a just transition to 100 % renewable energin the ground and ensure a just transition to 100 % renewable energy.

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.

Interestingly, the landmark international accord draws a big fat highlight (and maybe a circle and some stars in the margin) across the work that activists and leaders are doing in the Pacific Northwest: not just the work to keep fossil fuels in the ground and make polluters pay for their pollution, but also our work to reduce the influence of money in politics and reform broken North American democratic institutions.

As communities in our region stand up to Big Oil and Coal export projects, we are rejecting the status quo and keeping the fossil fuels in the ground.

Keeping fossil fuels in the ground is the best way to protect important habitats and livelihoods.

Keeping fossil fuels in the ground is the best way to protect people from untold destruction.

One example is the organization Oil Change International which argues that most remaining fossil fuel reserves has to be left in the ground to keep below 2 °C on the basis of cumulative emission budgets (Oil Change International, 2016).

The difference we can make now by keeping fossil fuels in the ground is astounding: if we act now, we can keep the Antarctic ice sheet largely intact.

It may take a strong, coordinated, and global effort to keep fossil fuels in the ground and spread renewable energy, but we can do it.

Keeping fossil fuels in the ground is the most important step we can take to prevent further climate change.

The best way to stop it is by keeping fossil fuels in the ground.

But action now to keep fossil fuels in the ground can still save many glaciers.

At this point we can not stop sea level rise, but if we act now to keep fossil fuels in the ground, we can limit the extent of sea level rise for centuries into the future.

If we keep fossil fuels in the ground and limit warming to less than 2 °C, it can mean the difference between a sea level increase of 50 cm and an increase of 10 metres or more.

It showed that we can pull together and make common cause with diverse coalitions to protect indigenous sovereignty and land rights while working to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

KEEP IT IN THE GROUND - The Guardian launched a petition urging the world's two biggest charitable funds to move their money out of fossil fuels.

Dozens expected to risk arrest calling for PM to reject Kinder Morgan pipeline & keep fossil fuels in the ground at Climate 101 mobilization

We know our calls to keep fossil fuels in the ground were heard loud and clear — by world leaders here in Bonn and by people like you all over the world who pledged to take local action.

I don't often find myself agreeing with energy market analysts, but Ms. Tezak's comments underscore the reality that a carbon tax that builds fossil fuels» true costs into their price is the only lasting way to address climate change and keep those fuels in the ground.

The only real way to prevent CO2 release is sequestration or better yet keep the fossil fuels in the ground (good luck with that!).

Ending the climate crisis means we have to keep fossil fuel reserves in the ground.

We're going to keep growing the global movement to win climate action and keep fossil fuels in the ground.

To get truly serious about addressing climate change, Washington must end the billions in subsidies going to the industry and move to keep fossil fuels in the ground by banning drilling offshore and ending the fossil fuel leasing program on public lands.

And, important for many in the movement, he spoke about the need to keep «some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.»

Earthjustice is fighting on multiple fronts to protect this irreplaceable region and keep the Arctic's fossil fuels in the ground.