Sentences with phrase «on phasing out fossil fuel»

To recap, Rio has the potential to engage the world's youth to help push for meaningful progress on phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, delivering universal clean energy access, and promoting women's rights and slowing global population.

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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.

«Building on Ottawa's earlier commitments to set a national carbon price, establish a clean fuel standard and to phase out traditional coal power, these measures will help Canada make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

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.

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

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.»

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.

«Phasing out cars that run on fossil fuels from cities is a good way to kick - start action but despite these headline - grabbing proposals the emission reduction targets in the plan lack ambition,» he added.

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.

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 Communiqué calls on the international community to increase efforts to phase out perverse subsidies to fossil fuels by promoting policy transparency, ambitious reform and targeted support for the poorest.

-- Put a sufficiently high price on carbon and deliver the G - 20 commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, using these funds to contribute to the several hundred billion US dollars per year needed to scale up investments in renewable energy.

Germany and France will heavily shape future European and even global energy and environmental policies — Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium and other nations may also phase out their nuclear plants — but to date there has been little investigative reporting on the planned shift from nuclear energy to fossil fuels and renewables.

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

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.

In an advertisement printed in newspapers in and around Washington DC, the coalition called on Obama to «lead an effort on the scale and with the urgency we need to phase out fossil fuels and lead America, and the world, in a clean energy revolution».

Australia should declare a moratorium on new fossil fuel mining and export projects, and begin phasing out existing ones.

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 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.

Governments spend about $ 300 billion a year on subsidies, and leaders said they'd like to «phase out and rationalize over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies,» in a statement released after the summit was over.

Canada has a critical role in supporting the Argentine G20 Presidency to deliver strong outcomes on climate, including progress on the phase - out of fossil fuel subsidies.

On page 271 we read that the WWF only began to «phase - out» fossil fuel funding from «BP, Shell and others» in the year 2000.

The G20 fossil fuel subsidy review, pioneered in 2016 by US and China, is currently the only concrete step to make progress on the group's pledge from the 2009 summit in Pittsburgh to phase - out «inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that increase wasteful consumption».

The most the G20 gathering could manage this time around on the climate front was a solemn nodding of the heads when Obama suggested that it would be a great idea if they phased out subsidies for fossil fuels.

And on page 271 we're told that the WWF began to «phase - out» fossil fuel funding from companies such as «BP, Shell and others» in the year 2000.

In 3 legislative files currently negotiated in Brussels the European Parliament progressed on financing matters: reporting on Fossil Fuel Subsidies phase - out; the linking the EU budget comes to national climate ambitions; a climate impact assessment tool for EU investments; and a 40 % climate earmarking target for the Juncker Investment Plan.

At the G20 summit in Hangzhou on September 4 and 5, 2016, the United States pressed the leaders of major global economies to outline specific plans to phase out most fossil fuel subsidies.

These new projects will keep Europe hooked on dirty energy long after we need to phase - out all fossil fuels to limit temperature increases to internationally agreed levels.»

While overall spending on climate - related activities is higher than on fossil fuels, there is still a lack of progress in phasing out fossil fuel investments and increasing climate finance.

Regarding the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), the European Parliament set for a binding template for the NECPs and added into the template many important details, e.g. on phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, Member State's national trajectories for maintaining and enhancing the carbon removals from sinks as well as trajectories and objectives for energy from renewable sources produced by cities, energy communities and self - consumers.

«Phasing out current subsidies for wind, solar, ethanol, and fossil fuels» could be meritorious on its own, but how much does this generate, and does it even pass a political laugh - test?

The biggest issue, Cohen and Jacobson agree, is motivating governments to take on the enormous challenge of phasing out cheap and abundant fossil fuels — and building a cleaner energy supply for the planet.

Humanity's future depends on us rapidly phasing out fossil fuels and moving to zero - carbon alternatives.

He's wrong: policy should be on the supply side, phase out fossil fuels (petroleum, coal, natural gas) and substitute solar, wind, hydro and nuclear instead.

Dr Birol also held meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ministry of Environment and with New Zealand's Climate Change Ambassador, where the IEA and New Zealand agreed on the need to support global policy advice and quantitative analysis for the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies and the energy transition, both through bilateral collaboration and multilateral fora, such as APEC, the WTO and the G20.

Improving energy efficiency across the economy could strengthen energy security by decreasing the country's reliance on fossil - fuel imports, reduce pressure on public budgets that have historically shouldered billions of euros a year in energy subsidies (although some energy subsidies are now being phased out), reduce costs to consumers and improve the comfort and health of its residents.

Accelerating research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency, phasing out fossil - fuel subsidies and progressively putting an explicit price on carbon pollution were all key objectives agreed upon at the conference.

When Governor Dalrymple argues that the choice is between pipelines and trains, he is making a narrow and biased argument — one that ignores the need to phase out our reliance on dirty energy, and that disregards the possibility that renewable energy could solve our energy and profits / jobs problems and avoid the risk - asterisk that will always be attached to fossil fuels.

Every few months — or constantly, depending on your attention span — we hear another round of passionate recommendations that fossil fuel subsidies be phased out to level the playing field for clean energy.

As such, Earth Island Institute is joining more than 700 organizations calling on Governor Brown to prohibit further permitting of fossil fuel extraction and related activities, and to phase - out existing production in line with the Paris Climate Accord.

The Paris Agreement is based on emission scenarios that move from a sluggish phase - out of fossil fuels to large - scale late - century negative emissions.

«Wind energy's major cost declines have, and will continue to be, critical to opening up new opportunities throughout Canada — whether it is to support the coal phase - out, or to fill an emerging power supply gap as nuclear power plants are refurbished in Ontario, or to help the northeast United States reduce its reliance on fossil - fuel powered generation through clean electricity imports from Quebec or Atlantic Canada.

In any case, in order to figure out how to «phase out fossil fuel combustion», they go on to describe what they call the «principal drivers» of CO2 emissions, viz:

The underlying conclusion of the report is that the time has arrived for taking the necessary steps to preserve livable conditions on earth: as quickly as possible, we must stop burning fossil fuels, aiming for a complete phase - out by around 2050.

Meanwhile, campaigners plan to use the agreement to push Obama to stop Congress lifting a ban on oil exports in the budget bill, and to phase out fossil fuel extraction on public lands.

Phasing Out Subsidies Considered For A While Addressing the market - distorting and environmentally detrimental effect of fossil fuel subsidies has been on the table for some time.

It has been argued that a scenario phasing out carbon emissions fast enough to stabilize climate this century, limiting further warming to a maximum of several tenths of a degree Celsius, is still possible, but it would require a rising price on carbon emissions sufficient to spur transition to a clean energy future without burning all fossil fuels (33).

In addition, we strongly support efforts to rationalize and phase - out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption, and to continue voluntary reporting on progress.

Order Defendants to prepare and implement an enforceable national remedial plan to phase out fossil fuel emissions and draw down excess atmospheric CO2 so as to stabilize the climate system and protect the vital resources on which Plaintiffs now and in the future will depend...