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The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

In the 1980s, Exxon lobbied to replace scarce oil with synthetic fossil fuels, but it glossed over the high carbon footprint associated with synfuels.

BC is one of few provinces with no limit on corporate donations (as is Saskatchewan, whose leading political party appears to have benefitted handsomely from vast sums of money from Alberta - based fossil fuel corporations over the last decade).

environmental issues directly associated with animal agriculture (such as air pollution and contaminated drainage from factory farming into water supplies) and to help lessen our over consumption of resources including land, water, and fossil fuels

Besides this, it deprives Russia from the most strong political instrument of pressure and influence over the EU because as of now it has near - monopoly on supplying the EU with fossil fuel.

It is no coincidence that the citizens of Arab countries with limited fossil fuel reserves have enjoyed greater freedom over the years than their oil - rich neighbours.

New York State has already shown that it is prepared to prioritize human health over fossil fuel extraction with its refusal in 2014 to permit high - volume fracking.

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.

By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

The EIA says world energy consumption is likely to grow by more than 50 percent over the period 2010 to 2040, with fossil fuels supplying 80 percent of the total, despite a growth in renewables and nuclear power.

The old way of doing business, with big centralized power companies and industries that are totally reliant on fossil fuels, is over, he says.

The use of alcohol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long - term economical advantages over fossil fuel.

As a result of this annual cycle, together with the continual emissions from fossil fuel burning (particularly over China, Europe, and the southeast United States), carbon levels reach a maximum in the Northern Hemisphere in April, just before terrestrial plants begin to soak up more carbon.

With the Bakken's growth have come increased protests over fossil fuel rail traffic across the West.

Over the past several years, scientists have succeeded in tracking with increasing confidence the portion of climate change that is tied directly to human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels.

For those who aren't familiar with Willie Soon's fossil fuel company contracting over the last fifteen years, there is probably a legitimate question of whether or not this guy deserves to be in his current pinch.

In the 1980s, Exxon lobbied to replace scarce oil with synthetic fossil fuels, but it glossed over the high carbon footprint associated with synfuels.

Osprey Lake of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) in the United States, where the battle over the Keystone XL Pipeline and the development of the Alberta Tar Sands is raging, addressed the failure of the COP to deal with the central point of ending fossil fuel extraction: «With the COP taking place in Peru, it is the first time a UNFCCC meeting was held in an Amazon counwith the central point of ending fossil fuel extraction: «With the COP taking place in Peru, it is the first time a UNFCCC meeting was held in an Amazon counWith the COP taking place in Peru, it is the first time a UNFCCC meeting was held in an Amazon country.

For over two hundred years, beginning with coal and later joined by oil and gas, fossil fuels have literally fueled the industrial revolution and have produced astonishing improvements in living standards.

(There are growing indications of big frustrations in sub-Saharan Africa over the climate divide between rich countries with a long history of burning fossil fuels and the poorest, that face the biggest risks from climate - related hazards, with or without a push from greenhouse gases.

Of course, that statement contains a potential internal inconsistency that presents a sobering reality check for anyone seeking consensus among a vastly different range of parties — whether they are 192 rich and poor countries tussling over a climate treaty or 50 states, with varied levels of dependence on fossil fuels, pondering a climate bill.

As news spread over the weekend of the death of George P. Mitchell, the 94 - year - old Texas oil man widely credited with playing a pivotal role in unlocking the shale energy era, I reached out for a reaction from Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer - winning chronicler of humanity's fossil fuel era.

Since we would already be over 2C of warming with current CO2 levels, except for aerosols, isn't the safe amount of fossil fuels that can be burned zero?

Similarly, we hope you will take steps to transform our energy economy so the otherwise nearly inevitable eventual war with China over fossil fuels can be avoided.

But over the last few months we have seen a growing number of authoritative voices calling for fossil fuel disinvestment, with a growing number of institutional investors actually saying they will disinvest from fossil fuels.

Remove all the impediments we've imposed, over the past 50 years, that are preventing nuclear electricity generation from being cost competitive with fossil fuels.

The banking sector has been the target of numerous campaigns over the years with tax avoidance, excessive directors» remuneration, investments in the fossil fuel industry and investments in nuclear weapons continuing to be key pressure points.

More 2014: In September, Neva Rockefeller Goodwin and others announced that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund would sell off its $ 45 million in fossil fuel investments, starting with coal and oil sands holdings, and shedding any remaining holdings gradually over several years.

These brave members of this coalition are doing their job like they did in the tobacco case,» said Vice President Gore, comparing fossil fuel companies to the tobacco companies of the 1990s that fell under intense scrutiny over misstatements about cancer and heart disease risks associated with cigarette smoking.

Nuclear is absolutely needed not just to stop the hand - wringing over climate change but to free mankind from the erstwhile shackles of fossil fuels, which by comparison, is dirty, expensive, inefficient, dangerous to mine, transport, and refine, and fraught with geopolitical dangers and uncertainties.

If we allow fossil fuels and CO2 to be labelled a pollutant with a view to the world's energy supply being taken over and rationed by a «well meaning», self appointed, so called elite then we will deserve what we get.

And if you oppose allowing nuclear to be cost competitive with fossil fuels, progress in displacing fossil fuels will be as slow as it has been over the past 50 years.

Less well known is the immense potential of soils to act as vast carbon sinks, with the ability to «naturally turn over about 10 times more greenhouse gas on a global scale than the burning of fossil fuels.»

Most of the global CO2 emissions issue could be solved with low cost nuclear power (low cost nuclear will replace, over the course of this century, fossil fuels for electricity generation which will then displace gas for heating and produce «energy carriers» to replace fossil fuels for transport fuels).

Here is my attempt to present the argument for reducing the regulation of nuclear so it can become cost competitive with fossil fuels — especially in the developing countries (which is where the emissions growth will occur over this century if there is not realistic alternative to fossil fuels):

With global GHG emissions and concentrations continuing to increase; with climate change intensifying changes in ecosystems, ice sheet deterioration, and sea level rise; and with fossil fuels providing more than 80 % of the world's energy, the likelihood seems low that cooperative actions will prevent increasingly disruptive climate change over the next several decaWith global GHG emissions and concentrations continuing to increase; with climate change intensifying changes in ecosystems, ice sheet deterioration, and sea level rise; and with fossil fuels providing more than 80 % of the world's energy, the likelihood seems low that cooperative actions will prevent increasingly disruptive climate change over the next several decawith climate change intensifying changes in ecosystems, ice sheet deterioration, and sea level rise; and with fossil fuels providing more than 80 % of the world's energy, the likelihood seems low that cooperative actions will prevent increasingly disruptive climate change over the next several decawith fossil fuels providing more than 80 % of the world's energy, the likelihood seems low that cooperative actions will prevent increasingly disruptive climate change over the next several decades.

In 2004, Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow at Princeton University published an article in Science that showed how annual carbon emissions from fossil fuels could be held at 7 billion tons instead of rising to 14 billion tons over the next 50 years, as would occur with business as usual.

While geothermal projects require significant up - front capital investments, especially for exploration, drilling, and power plant construction, the typically low operation cost — including zero expense for fuel — means that over their lifetimes geothermal power plants are often cost - competitive with fossil fuel or nuclear power plants.

The Heartland Institute is a fossil fuel - funded front group with over $ 800,000 in contributions from fossil fuel interests that has routinely attacked clean energy policies and the science behind climate change.

With alternative energy technological development subsidized by the military, a political mitigation strategy may become less dependent on an approach that requires unpopular legislation or regulation for the civilian sector to transition from fossil fuels to alternatives over coming decades.

The Cabinet member responsible replied that she was happy to be able to announce that, recognising the growing financial risks associated with fossil fuels, the Council would commit to transferring over time any current investments in these «traditional» energy sources.

There are already over 30 groups working for divestment, and anyone anywhere can get campaigning with their local community to kick fossil fuels out of our councils.

Between 2010 and 2012 alone, individuals and companies in the fossil fuel industry spent an unprecedented $ 90.5 million to elect friendly Republicans, an increase of 66 percent over the previous two election cycles (compared with $ 15.7 million they gave to Democrats), according to Center for Responsive Politics data.

With wind forecasting, changes in wind energy output are factored into grid operations much like variations in demand — both change over a matter of 30 minutes or even hours (not a matter of seconds, such as when fossil - fuelled or nuclear plants experience an unexpected outage, or a tree falls on a transmission line).

But while his fans play up his association with the environmental group, they fail to mention his much stronger ties to fossil fuel - intensive industries: For over 20 years, he's been a paid spokesman for companies involved in «mining, energy, forestry, aquaculture, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing.»

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

The national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted March 27 - April 9 among 2,541 adults, finds pockets of partisan agreement over expanding solar and wind power, though wide political divides remain over increasing fossil fuels through such methods as coal mining, hydraulic fracturing and offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, a pattern consistent with a 2016 Pew Research Center survey.

But with fossil fuels, the issue is no longer just about siting, choosing among sources carefully, or mitigating impacts after the fact; we must stop expanding their use immediately and categorically, and transition away from them over time.

If you share a fundamental moral outrage over this absurdity, join us this summer and beyond as we use organizing, NVDA, divestment campaigns, and transformative pilot projects to stop new fossil fuel projects, shut down old ones, and build our future at the human scale, with human values, instead.

We've crossed this epic milestone just weeks ahead of the Global Divestment Mobilisation, when people all over the world will be taking action to highlight the moral urgency of cutting ties with the fossil fuel industry and pushing their institutions to divest.