Sentences with phrase «of fossil fuel companies»

Yet the stock price of a fossil fuel company is linked to its reserves.

What is your experience of the fossil fuel companies?

But rather than take responsibility for their and your own behavior lets instead put it all on the heads of fossil fuel companies.

We manually checked the names of fossil fuel companies to make sure that they were actually real fossil fuel companies.

The bill has the support of both fossil fuel companies and environmental groups.

This has fed into their thinking on assessing the «carbon bubble» and «stranded asset» risks of fossil fuel companies.

The tool, available in its 1.0 version here, will continue providing valuable glimpses into the thinking of fossil fuel companies over the coming year.

If I were a CEO of a fossil fuel company, I would be running scared.

Dec 14 (Reuters)-- A landmark deal to curb global warming dented shares of fossil fuel companies on Monday and lifted renewable energy stocks, although some price swings were muted by the non-binding nature of the pact.

As was reported by Karl Mathiesen in The Guardian, 2014/07/30, «dozens of cities, institutions and investors are taking their money out of fossil fuel companies after the launch of the divestment campaign in the US around 18 months ago.»

The Canadian conversation about the role of fossil fuel companies in causing local climate impacts took a step forward in June 2015, when the District of Highlands, a small local government on southern Vancouver Island, became the first municipality in the world to write a «climate accountability» letter to 20 fossil fuel companies.

The issue of the bubble arises because the combined proven oil, gas and coal reserves currently on the books of fossil fuel companies (and governments in the case of NOCs) will produce far more than this amount of CO2 when consumed.

It takes very little talent or expertise: ruthlessness is the main quality required, a trait present in the managers and owners of our fossil fuel companies.

It makes my heart sing to see that they too point out the irony of Smith claiming the UCS is trying to suppress the First Amendment rights of fossil fuel companies while he's attempting to squelch the UCS's First Amendment rights.

The appointment to lead the EPA is a reward for Pruitt, who dutifully acted on behalf of fossil fuel companies as Oklahoma attorney general, and a consequence of the Republican administrations close ties to the oil and coal industries.

The official account of a two - day conference on climate change influentials held years earlier in 2012, the book details greens leaders exploring potential stratagems for the destruction of fossil fuel companies.

Under Raymond, Exxon led a coalition of fossil fuel companies called the Global Climate Coalition, which sought to delay action on climate change and cloud public understanding of the issue.

Mr. Tillerson himself has been asked to testify about the role of fossil fuel companies and the government in causing climate change, as part of a lawsuit brought by children alleging their constitutional rights have been violated.

A recent study at the University of Oxford found that the stigmatization of fossil fuel companies caused by divestment can «materially increase the uncertainty surrounding the future cash flows of fossil - fuel companies» and poses as their most far - reaching threat.

Two California communities — San Francisco and Oakland — filed lawsuits this week against a number of fossil fuel companies for their climate impacts.

To be sure, McKibben announced a small victory last week: An environmentally - oriented college in Maine named Unity College voted to sell the stocks of fossil fuel companies in its endowment, but its holdings amount to $ 13 million.

Schneiderman said Lasher as his chief of staff «was a driving force behind some of our office's most groundbreaking work, including our investigation of fossil fuel companies, our unprecedented work to stop misconduct by landlords and building owners, our partnership with the New York State Education Department to ensure access to education for immigrant children, and our work to provide bulletproof vests to police officers and stop online sales of illegal guns»

The group is funded by a long list of fossil fuel companies, as research from SpinWatch and Powerbase shows.

Along with falling gas prices, they've slashed the profits of fossil fuel companies, which are delaying dozens of billion - dollar projects and laying off thousands of workers.

The total stock market capitalisation of fossil fuel companies today is about $ 5tn.

New York / London, April 23 — The Carbon Tracker Initiative and Energy Transition Advisors today jointly publish a «blueprint» showing the benefit of fossil fuel companies stress testing their businesses using a set of low carbon, low price scenarios.

While over 100 mainstream American companies have fled the controversial organization, a 2017 Annual Meeting registration list shows that ALEC is still chock full of fossil fuel companies.

According to officials, securities of fossil fuel companies currently make up less than three percent of New York's $ 189 billion pension fund, which will eventually be reduced to zero.

«A group of climate skeptics who weighed in on climate lawsuits in California revealed their recent funding, and court documents show their donors are a mix of fossil fuel companies and conservative think tanks.»

The public relations machines of fossil fuel companies would have us believe that new hospitals, better education, and all sorts of other good things are reliant on the prosperity that comes from us allowing them to sell off our fossil fuel «resources».

Those direct engagements clearly showed that the investors are becoming increasingly empowered to engage with companies to align capital allocation in accordance with the exposure to climate risks, while the Boards and executive teams of fossil fuel companies are becoming more aware, proactive and better able to manage climate risks.

The deal sent shares of fossil fuel companies tumbling and lifted renewable energy stocks on Monday.

... I will call on my friends, and I know it's very difficult, a lot of these fossil fuel companies finance a lot of the programs, and they finance the campaigns and they finance conferences.

Colin Roche, fossil free campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said «European taxpayers» money should be used to support desperately - needed clean energy projects, not further line the pockets of fossil fuel companies.»

«We can not allow our children to be poisoned by toxic drinking water just so a handful of fossil fuel companies can make even more in profits,» he wrote in April.

Plaintiffs propose to remedy this worldwide problem by holding a select group of fossil fuel companies liable for lawful conduct occurring around the world.»

«The value of fossil fuel companies is dependent on reserves of oil, coal, and natural gas — reserves that must remain in the ground for us to have any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change.