Sentences with phrase «of keeping fossil fuels in the ground»

If all new coal and gas extraction projects are slated for export, why do state and territory governments even consider allowing new fossil fuel extraction projects despite the climate imperative of keeping fossil fuels in the ground, and despite often fierce community opposition?

The campaign quickly spread to many parts of the world, and by 2015 thousands of divestment campaigns were underway, helping shift public opinion in favour of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and highlighting the moral urgency of climate action.

Thousands of divestment campaigns around the world are helping shift public opinion in favour of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and highlighting the moral urgency of climate action.

Read about the benefits of keeping fossil fuels in the ground.

Not exact matches

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...

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

The third example, the «Keep It in the Ground» fossil fuel divestment campaign, was launched in March 2015 by British newspaper The Guardian to «keep fossil fuels where they belong: in the ground» to avoid the worst impacts of climate chaKeep It in the Ground» fossil fuel divestment campaign, was launched in March 2015 by British newspaper The Guardian to «keep fossil fuels where they belong: in the ground» to avoid the worst impacts of climate cGround» fossil fuel divestment campaign, was launched in March 2015 by British newspaper The Guardian to «keep fossil fuels where they belong: in the ground» to avoid the worst impacts of climate chakeep fossil fuels where they belong: in the ground» to avoid the worst impacts of climate cground» to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

In order to stand a chance of surviving climate change, we need to keep 80 percent of known fossil fuel reserves in the grounIn order to stand a chance of surviving climate change, we need to keep 80 percent of known fossil fuel reserves in the grounin the ground.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

Hundreds of thousands of people joined an estimated 2,300 marches and actions in 175 countries over the weekend, demanding that the heads of state and negotiators in Paris pull together a strong deal to fight global warming — and fight to keep fossil fuels in the ground and shift to 100 percent clean energy.

... Ultimately, if we are going prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we are going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them...

To build on these victories, the Fossil Free movement is preparing to launch a new wave of local actions around the world to keep fossil fuels in the ground and accelerate the shift to community - run renewable eFossil Free movement is preparing to launch a new wave of local actions around the world to keep fossil fuels in the ground and accelerate the shift to community - run renewable efossil fuels in the ground and accelerate the shift to community - run renewable energy.

But what would be the implication of building, or not building, the KXL pipeline if the U.S. were committed to keeping as much as 80 percent of current fossil fuel reserves in the ground?

One is the inability of Israel's environmentalists to shift the discourse in a way that will take into account the global imperative of keeping most fossil fuels in the ground to stave off climate catastrophe.

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.

Today the International Energy Agency released its World Energy Outlook and confirmed estimates that the overwhelming majority of known fossil fuel reserves (75 - 80 %) will have to be kept in the ground to avoid 2 degrees Celsius temperature rise.

Instead of pushing for new legislation to help keep corporate polluters afloat, we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground by pushing for real clean energy solutions

Keep It in the Ground: Ending new fossil fuel leasing on America's public lands and offshore areas would keep up to 450 billion tons of greenhouse gases from polluting our atmosphere, says an important recent stKeep It in the Ground: Ending new fossil fuel leasing on America's public lands and offshore areas would keep up to 450 billion tons of greenhouse gases from polluting our atmosphere, says an important recent stkeep up to 450 billion tons of greenhouse gases from polluting our atmosphere, says an important recent study.

Throughout the Barack Obama administration, McKibben was a leader in the campaign to oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign, the Keep It In The Ground campaign, the campaign to criminalize climate skepticism — which included collusion with the 18 Attorneys General for Clean Energy) and the #ExxonKnew attack campaigin the campaign to oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign, the Keep It In The Ground campaign, the campaign to criminalize climate skepticism — which included collusion with the 18 Attorneys General for Clean Energy) and the #ExxonKnew attack campaigIn The Ground campaign, the campaign to criminalize climate skepticism — which included collusion with the 18 Attorneys General for Clean Energy) and the #ExxonKnew attack campaign.

The article is published as part of the newspaper's Keep it in the Ground campaign against fossil fuel companies, encouraging big capital investors to move their interests out of brown energy — «divestment».

Given the growing mainstream concern over a carbon bubble, and calls to «keep it in the ground» when it comes to fossil fuels, this rejection by councillors — not to mention the huge swell of public sentiment that influenced it — should give investors serious pause for thought regarding where they want to place their bets when it comes to energy.

Harvard's decision comes less than a week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounded the alarm for immediate action on climate change and the necessity for keeping much of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, a reality that will affect investments in fossil fuels.

The report points to Browne and Erwin's «pivotal roles» in the formation of the burgeoning shale gas industry in the UK at a time when scientists warned most of the world's fossil fuel reserves have to be kept in the ground in order to limit global temperature rise in line with the Paris Agreement.

«For us, the science is really clear; we need to keep 80 percent of the world's gas, oil and coal reserves within the ground if we are going to have any chance of keeping the rise in climate to within 2degC, so we think divesting from fossil fuels is very much a pertinent issue of the age, and we need to start acting now.