Sentences with phrase «other fossil fuel development»

Founded by Surfrider member Dave Rauschkolb in 2009, the event brings people together to oppose new offshore drilling and other fossil fuel development and promote a clean energy future.

Not exact matches

Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.

Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.

The researchers hope their new paper encourages others to pursue TPV improvements — including fabrication of TPV cells on reusable substrates — that could lead to development of real - world systems at costs competitive with fossil fuels.

While some environmental leaders now cautiously support development of more nuclear reactors (which are free of fossil fuels) to help stave off climate change, others remain concerned that the risks to human health and the environment are still too high to go down that road.

-- The Secretary shall carry out a program to establish Energy Innovation Hubs to enhance the Nation's economic, environmental, and energy security by promoting commercial application of clean, indigenous energy alternatives to oil and other fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the United States maintains a technological lead in the development and commercial application of state - of - the - art energy technologies.

So the only way to leave fossil fuels in the ground is for governments to set a very high price on expoitation rights, so that every other avenue for energy development gets developed first.

In our video chat, he and the other authors acknowledged the challenge in gaining traction, even with such findings, given the deep - rooted human bias toward immediate gratification and the development and energy gaps that mean today's poorer nations have few affordable choices other than fossil fuels.

Second, if divestment were to reduce the financial resources of coal, oil, and gas companies (which it would NOT do), this would only reduce research and development at those same companies of: carbon capture and storage technologies; other key technological breakthroughs; and renewable sources of energy (the fossil fuel companies are carrying out much of the R&D on renewables).

Other countries in the region have taken bigger steps, such as planning urban development based on climate change, limiting fossil fuels and creating eco-friendly transportation.

Like other countries (h / t Canada), there is a dangerous disconnect between a stated need for climate action, and continued plans for fossil fuel development.

There's still a significant amount of other fossil fuel finance at the World Bank Group that will need to be addressed, including ongoing indirect support for coal through financial intermediaries and development policy finance, as well as other oil and gas finance.

Hurricanes or extreme stormsSea - level rise or floodingDrought or heat waves or wildfiresSmog or air pollutionLocal fossil fuel development (coal, oil, natural gas) Other

As mentioned in the press release:» -LRB-...) these groups released a briefing titled «Dirty Dozen: How Public Finance Drives the Climate Crisis through Oil, Gas, and Coal Expansion», highlighting fossil fuel projects by the World Bank Group, other multilateral and national development banks and export credit agencies.

Developments in carbon capture and storage, among other innovations, may preserve the value of fossil fuels in a carbon - constrained world.

But Canada is further ahead on implementing the actions required to address climate change that will provide a long - term sustainable future for wind energy development by looking beyond wind energy's role in the electricity grid to its role (with other renewable energies) as a substitute for fossil fuels in other sectors of the economy where most of our greenhouse gas emissions are produced.

It's similar to the facile association of increased fossil fuel usage and increased standard of living w / o accounting for the influence of other factors that directly affect development such as increased civil rights, spending on education, etc..

The African Development Bank and Asian Development Bank have already excluded financing for fossil fuel exploration based on financial risks, and the other MDBs should follow suit.

Some depend on fossil fuel production, and others perceive fossil fuel development as the only route out of extreme poverty, even as others have begun to pursue a more sustainable future.

We the undersigned call on banks and other financial institutions to desist from providing funding and financial services to all fossil fuel developments in Queensland's Galilee Basin.

Providing technical support to the U.S. EPA to support its development of regulations to address fossil fuel power plants and other existing sources of carbon dioxide emissions

Weighing the social and economic benefits of fossil fuel consumption and other human activities against some of the environmental consequences, he asked «[i] s it now necessary, for the long - term future of our planet, to limit such development?»

Donald Trump today traveled to Utah to announce that he will dismantle Bears Ears and Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monuments to open them up for fossil fuel development and other destruction.

Others challenge government authorizations of fossil fuel development, such as a claim against the Norwegian government's approval of oil drilling and a South African NGO's recent successful challenge to the approval of a coal - fired power station.

One the one hand, we should be encouraging fossil fuel development; on the other, we should drastically curtail its use.

According to a panel of development experts, sub-Saharan Africa will need to power its factories, hospitals, schools, and other foundational infrastructure with cheap and reliable sources of electricity, and, at least in the near future, that will likely come from hydro and fossil fuels.

Zinke's review of the national monuments is a thinly veiled guise to open up those lands to fossil fuel development and other destruction.

It came a day after Trump traveled to Utah to announce he will dismantle Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument to open them up to fossil fuel development and other destruction.

The company also admitted that its own products were to blame for climate change: It stated: «With fossil fuel production being the major source of CO2 in the atmosphere a forward looking approach by the energy industry is clearly desirable, seeking to play its part with Governments and others in the development of appropriate measures to tackle the problem... The energy industry needs to consider how it should play its part.»