Sentences with phrase «of phasing out all fossil fuel»

One school of thought says she should just plow ahead with her environmental agenda; history will be on her side in the end, since no one today (outside of maybe a few U.S. Republicans) doubts that the question of phasing out fossil fuels is not a matter of if but when.

Within the 2015 agreement, CAN calls for long term global goals of phasing out all fossil fuel emissions and to phase in a 100 % renewable energy future with sustainable energy access for all, as early as possible, but not later than 2050.

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Britain's last coal power station will be forced to close in 2025, as part of a government plan to phase out the fossil fuel to meet its climate change commitments.

Democrats and environmental groups latched onto Keystone as emblematic of the type of dirty fossil fuels that must be phased out.

Third, governments worldwide forged an historic climate agreement in Paris that will drive the global phase - out of fossil fuel generation over decades — and increase the demand for the technologies that can replace it.

After his departure, China said it plans to accelerate the use of alternative - energy cars, phasing out sales of fossil - fuel vehicles and turning the province into a free - trade port.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

He was speaking ahead of Wednesday's Second Reading of the Energy Bill, where he wants targets to phase out fossil fuels and to decarbonise electricity generation.

They support the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies in the «medium term» and pledge a huge boost to renewable energy, including through a new $ 2 billion «Low Carbon Economy Trust» to fund clean energy projects.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

But, as Hansen wrote in an additional assessment of his new analysis, «Environmentalists need to recognize that attempts to force all - renewable policies on all of the world will only assure that fossil fuels continue to reign for base - load electric power, making it unlikely that abundant affordable power will exist and implausible that fossil fuels will be phased out.»

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

On the very night that current President Dilma Rousseff gave the closing speech of the Rio +20 conference in June — the final agreement of which promised to phase out fossil - fuel subsidies — the government said it would be reducing a federal fuel tax to zero.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

Last week, the G7 leaders pledged to eliminate «inefficient fossil fuel subsidies» but talks on phasing out a form of coal subsidy ended in stalemate.

It remains the fastest growing component of the widening gap between the Ecological Footprint and the planet's biocapacity,» Wackernagel said adding that a global agreement that aims to phase out fossil fuels could have a significant impact in helping curb the consistent growth and even shrink Ecological Footprint, humanity's demand on planet Earth.

The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.

Putting a price on pollution can incentivise the phase - out of fossil fuels, but the existing carbon markets have so far not delivered a high enough price to drive the transition to...

Political frameworks should regulate the phase - out of fossil fuels.

Scientists need to explain to the public that while they continue to study the details of anthropogentic global warming and consequent climate change, that we already know enough to be certain that continued unmitigated warming will be a disaster for all humanity, and that we urgently need to phase out all fossil fuel use as quickly as possible.

An unprecedented coalition of close to 40 governments, hundreds of businesses and influential international organisations has called today for accelerated action to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, a move that would help bridge the gap to keep global temperature rise below 2 °C.

We could start by phasing out all subsidies for the production of fossil fuels and ethanol.

When the G7 committed to a complete phase out of fossil fuels, I was optimistic about the implications.

-- Implementing a partial phase - out of fossil fuel consumption subsidies accounts for 12 % of the reduction in emissions and supports efficiency efforts.

That solution is to rapidly phase out fossil fuels and replace them with non-carbon sources of energy, use that energy with maximum efficiency, and use organic agriculture and reforestation to to draw down the already dangerous anthropogenic excess of atmospheric CO2.

8) Phase - out of fossil fuel power.

In the new study, Hansen writes, «there is no morally defensible excuse to delay phase - out of fossil fuel emissions as rapidly as possible.»

To achieve these reductions they propose phasing out coal - fired power stations by 2030 and scaling down the use of unconventional fossil fuels like tar sands.

From the Bank of England to the Pope, international government groups and the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, there's a growing push to phase out fossil fuels to save the world from catastrophic warming.

The two scientists have already reported on the increasing costs of delay in phasing out fossil fuel sources of energy.

Point five addresses bringing people out of poverty and calls for putting «an end to the fossil fuel era, phasing out fossil fuel emissions, including emissions from military aviation and shipping and providing affordable, reliable and safe renewable energy access for all.»

11/19/17 — Despite its stated goal of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by aggressively pursing clean energy technologies and phasing out fossil fuels, Germany is still burning lots of an especially dirty form of coal and is likely to badly miss its upcoming emission - reduction targets.

Maintaining the momentum, and not forgetting where we started out, we rejoined with our Divest London friends at the beginning of 2016 with a sea - shanty / flooding themed event at City Hall, and celebrated a short while later when all four leading candidates for Mayor of London committed to work to phase out London - wide fossil fuel investments.

In addition to the work in the World Energy Outlook, the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC since 2009, when G20 leaders took a major step toward reforming energy subsidies and committed to «rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption», the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC in support of their commitments.

The campaign launched last week with a letter demanding that Brown halt the development of all new dirty fuel projects in California, create a plan to phase out all fossil fuel extraction as quickly as possible and provide support and opportunities for those most impacted by the transition.

The report, entitled Financing Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas, calls on USEXIM and other nations» export credit agencies (ECAs) to phase out all financial support for fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest, in order to help prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

Since 2009, the IEA has actively contributed to all energy work streams of the G20 — a group that accounts for 85 % of the global economy and 75 % of global energy demand — covering topics ranging from energy security and market transparency, to energy efficiency and the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies.

Professor Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Teesside University said: «If the EU is to transform its energy system to align with the Paris temperature and equity commitments, it can not continue with business as usual and must instead initiate a rapid phase out of all fossil fuels including natural gas.

Some outlets have incorrectly reported that the World Bank Group will eliminate only their finance for fossil fuel exploration, but it's even bigger than that: the World Bank described it as a commitment to end «upstream oil and gas finance,» which means they're planning to phase out all of their extraction - related finance.

The Australian government's Energy White Paper [x] plans to facilitate the expansion of fossil fuel mining and export industries at a time when they must be phased out as fast as possible.

By some estimates, I - 732 would raise gasoline and electricity prices less than 15 percent by 2040 in Washington State — hardly enough to jumpstart an urgent, sweeping phase - out of fossil fuels.

An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... [I] f emissions from coal are phased out over the next few decades and if unconventional fossil fuels including tar sands are left in the ground, it is conceivable to stabilize earth's climate.

Progressively phasing out fossil fuels in favor of clean electricity is what USA should have been doing for the last 30 + years.

Most developed countries supported a text calling for a transition to a green economy that included phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, the use and production of renewable energies, and creating «green» jobs in this new economic model.

Our governments have not accepted the reality dictated by the laws of physics and climate science: we must phase out fossil fuel emissions rapidly.

Analysts at the global think tank Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) warn that Russia's «ostrich approach to phasing out fossil fuels and its denial of the human origins of climate change» could hamper climate action globally.

Putting a price on pollution can incentivise the phase - out of fossil fuels, but the existing carbon markets have so far not delivered a high enough price to drive the transition to...

The next step is obviously to move from commitment to action, by raising the level of ambition of the Paris pledges, phasing out fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 and providing support to those most vulnerable to climate change impacts.»

The current text therefore reiterates the existing commitment, adding that «we will endeavour to make further progress in moving forward this commitment», encouraging all G20 members to initiate a voluntary peer review as soon as feasible, and noting the OECD / IEA progress report on the peer review process and facilitation of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies phase out.

Financial Times Phasing out fossil fuel by end of next decade forecast to eliminate $ 22bn of losses More than half of...