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If Environment Minister Hendriks» does announce a stringent, comprehensive limitation on
overseas coal financing, in line with the international community, it would be exactly the kind of action that 100,000 environmental, labor, faith, and social justice activists will be marching for this Sunday in New York City at the People's Climate March, and its affiliated events worldwide.
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Not exact matches
For more information on G20 fossil fuel subsidies, including public
finance, read Oil Change International and
Overseas Development Institute's report: Empty Promises: G20 Subsidies to Oil, Gas, and
Coal Production
• Leads global sector public
financing towards cleaner energy by calling for the end of U.S. government support for public
financing of new
coal - fired powers plants
overseas, except for the most efficient
coal technology available in the world's poorest countries, or facilities deploying carbon capture and sequestration technologies; and
As part of his climate change initiative announced in June, President Obama declared, «Today I'm calling for an end of public
financing for new
coal plants
overseas unless they deploy carbon capture technologies, or there's no other viable way for the poorest countries to generate electricity.»
Supporting new
coal development greatly undermines President Obama's much - touted climate legacy, including his commitment under the Climate Action Plan to restrict
financing coal plants
overseas and the recent formal U.S. commitment to the Paris agreement, which aspires to limit global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and thus rules out any question of U.S. investment in
coal.