Sentences with phrase «new fossil fuels»

There are better ways to spend public funds than facilitating the building of new fossil fuel infrastructure.
Together, they're calling out the hypocrisy of continued institutional investments in new fossil fuel projects.
The report's authors point out several recommendations for aligning climate policy with these goals, first and foremost by moving away from investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure.
This is a good thing, but we don't need to rely on new fossil fuel extraction projects to achieve those benefits.
Today's action called for the freeze of new fossil fuels infrastructure and have a just transition to renewable energy.
But the cost reductions I wrote about have continued, and renewables are now, broadly speaking, as cheap as, or cheaper than, new fossil fuel plants.
The group asks the banks to place an immediate prohibition on loans for new fossil fuel projects and associated infrastructure, and for them to sell down stakes in coal and gas companies.
You can start or join a campaign where you live to ban new fossil fuel projects.
There needs to be immediate action in stopping new fossil fuel development projects.
The continuing installation of solar power on the roofs of Australian homes as well as the increasing number of utility - scale solar power stations is also reducing demand for new fossil fuel power.
The idea of building new fossil fuel infrastructure to be CCS ready is becoming more accepted in both developed and developing countries.
It is crucial that immediate action to stop new fossil fuel development projects is taken.
The black line is the trajectory oil and gas production would follow if we stopped exploring for and developing new fossil fuel reserves today.
... if we don't allow new fossil fuel exports, won't some other country export more to meet demand, meaning our stance will bring no practical climate benefit?
Of perhaps even more significance was that in both years more money was invested in new renewable power capacity than in new fossil fuel capacity, indicating a tipping point has been reached.
All over the world communities are resisting new fossil fuel projects, and stopping them in their tracks — whether it is fracking, gas, oil or coal.
All new capital spending on new fossil fuel spending has to be stopped to avoid infrastructure lock - in.
In actual fact, our existing dependence on fossil fuels is an argument against new fossil fuel infrastructure, not for it.
In each case new fossil fuels replaced old solar based systems.
Start or join a campaign where you live to ban new fossil fuels projects.
This is a massive blow to this dangerous new pipeline - we're turning the tide on new fossil fuel projects.
We know what those commitments need to achieve: a fast, fair and just transition to 100 % renewable energy and an immediate end to new fossil fuel projects.
New analysis released today by Oil Change International finds that World Bank Group finance for projects that included exploration for new fossil fuel resources reached a new high in FY2013, at nearly $ 1 billion out of the $ 2.7 billion spent in total for fossil fuel projects.
At a time where we need to double down on actions to mitigate climate change, we should be looking towards the future set by the State's ambitious renewable energy goals and responsible offshore wind development, not new fossil fuel exploration
At the utility scale, flattening electricity demand (due to building efficiency gains) in the U.S. will make the need for new fossil fuel fired power plants unlikely.
ACIL Tasman says this will cause wholesale prices to rise, but this will allow new fossil fuel generation to be built.
We can not continue to allow governments and industry to expand and finance new fossil fuel production that only digs us deeper into the hole we are trying to get out of.
It «arms activists with a clear set of facts that they can use to oppose new fossil fuel projects across the board.
To those of us who believe in the IPCC's forecast of global warming and who also expect that the U.S., China and India qill continue their BAU policy for decades, every discovery of new fossil fuel supply means a more disastrous next century.
According to the 2009 Nature study, burning all proven and economically recoverable fossil fuel reserves — never mind other potential new fossil fuel discoveries — would pump another 763 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.
«We believe that a climate impact lens should be applied to all decisions regarding new fossil fuel development, and urge that a «carbon - reducing clean energy» strategy, rather than an «all - of - the - above» strategy become the operative paradigm for your administration's energy decisions,» the letter said.
«We can not claim to other states and the world that California is leading the charge against climate change while permitting huge new fossil fuel plants in our backyard.
Developing new fossil fuel reserves also delays the transition to non-fossil energy, as it keeps the price of hydrocarbons down while ensuring that the value of green investments remains uncertain.
We also note your Government's support for major new fossil fuel expansion plans despite scientific consensus that fossil fuels must stay in the ground if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change for our Islands and for the world at large.
Electric vehicles and charging stations will expand if a timeline is set for banning new fossil fuelled vehicles.
wiped out by the climate harm caused by allowing NEW fossil fuel exports.
Instead of passing the buck by ignoring the lock - in of massive new fossil fuel infrastructure that is designed to produce for decades to come, we need action, leadership, and policy that plans for climate safety.
By stopping new fossil fuel leasing and ensuing industrialization, he can also conserve the irreplaceable values of America's public lands and oceans.
Opposition likely to be fierce to Obama administration proposal, which would apply only to only new fossil fuel plants
A recent Oxford study found that as of next year, no more new fossil fuel - fired power plants can be built.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Groups with the Brown's Last Chance campaign will rally outside the National Press Building tomorrow to demand that Gov. Jerry Brown freeze new fossil fuel extraction in California and devise a plan to phase it out entirely.
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.
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