Sentences with phrase «lifted out of fuel poverty»

The Winter Wellbeing Partnership, led by Cornwall Council and including 30 partners, has secured over # 3.5 m from National Grid's Warm Homes Fund to work with thousands of people to stay warmer for less and be lifted out of fuel poverty.

Up to 100,000 households could be lifted out of fuel poverty after the government persuaded the UK's six largest energy suppliers to increase the amount they spend on social programmes.

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And giving a helping hand to all these other crises as a result of all the fossil fuel burning needed to power our lives and lift billions out of poverty: anthropogenic climate change.

Any effort to restrict the use of fossil fuels will therefore have a quantifiable impact on the ability of the poorest people on the planet to lift themselves out of poverty.

And, so long as burning fossil fuels is the cheapest and easiest way of achieving that, they'll continue to burn fossil fuels — and, in the process, they'll continue to lift millions of people out of poverty.

Solar and wind are too diffuse and not reliable enough to power factories and cities, and thus can not lift people out of poverty nor reduce emissions from fossil fuel - powered electrical systems more than only modestly.

The scientist - activists at UCL claim that their computer model provides overwhelming proof that the plentiful hydrocarbon fuels the developing countries are expecting will lift them out of poverty and that the developed countries are looking to for assistance for struggling economies must be put off limits.

There is no alternative to fossil fuels — of which shale gas is the best option - to lift people out of poverty until realistic alternatives are found.

One day, they (or some other as yet unimaginable energy source) may replace the fossil fuels that still account for 81 % of the energy that makes U.S. livelihoods, living standards, and life spans possible — and is lifting billions out of abject poverty, malnutrition, and disease.

Fifth, the world is entering an era of fossil fuel abundance that could lift billions of people out of poverty and help restart the U.S. economy.

America can again produce the fossil fuel blessings that lifted billions out of poverty, disease, and early death — and created jobs, prosperity, health, living standards, and life spans unimaginable barely a century ago.

Senators Kaine, Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), and others have banded together to attack the alleged «web of denial» that appears to be made up only of conservative organizations that they claim are funded by ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel corporations that they consider immoral — even though the energy they provide has been indispensable to lifting and keeping billions of people out of poverty, and even though ExxonMobil has not given any of these groups a dime for a decade or more.

Coal and fossil fuels can lift people out of poverty but at a high environmental cost.

BERLIN — India wants to provide its entire population with electricity and lift millions out of poverty, but in order to prevent the world overheating it also needs to switch away from fossil fuels.

The vehicle has the potential to provide significant societal benefits, including reduced fuel consumption, job creation and lifting people out of poverty by providing low - cost transportation that will allow people to get to jobs.