Sentences with phrase «people out of fuel poverty»

That's taken many people out of fuel poverty — especially if they use electricity rather than gas to heat their homes.

Not exact matches

Factories and call centers in places like India and China, often providing services for U.S. - based corporations, have helped fuel rapid growth and pull more than one billion people out of extreme poverty.

Furthermore, although some people are locked into fuel poverty for the longer term, others come into and out of fuel poverty over shorter periods.

The Winter Wellbeing Partnership, led by Cornwall Council and including 30 partners, has secured over # 3.5 m from National Grid's Warm Homes Fund to work with thousands of people to stay warmer for less and be lifted out of fuel poverty.

By January 2019 the programme is expected to have helped more than 1,000 homes out of fuel poverty, keeping people warm and well.

Any effort to restrict the use of fossil fuels will therefore have a quantifiable impact on the ability of the poorest people on the planet to lift themselves out of poverty.

In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissions.

And, so long as burning fossil fuels is the cheapest and easiest way of achieving that, they'll continue to burn fossil fuels — and, in the process, they'll continue to lift millions of people out of poverty.

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.»

«Over the last 200 years, fossil fuels have provided the route out of grinding poverty for many people in the world,» states the article.

Solar and wind are too diffuse and not reliable enough to power factories and cities, and thus can not lift people out of poverty nor reduce emissions from fossil fuel - powered electrical systems more than only modestly.

There is no alternative to fossil fuels — of which shale gas is the best option - to lift people out of poverty until realistic alternatives are found.

You should apologise to your grandchild for me, as I am one of those lucky people who hasn't yet been fired from the oil industry (though I imagine it will happen soon enough), so, as such, I am an evil fossil fuel sympathiser, going out of my way to actively promote wars, poverty, death, and environmental rape.

D. Phasing out fossil fuels would amount to a policy of mass poverty for the American people, unless America turns to nuclear power, which is opposed by the same extremists who oppose fossil fuels.

Fifth, the world is entering an era of fossil fuel abundance that could lift billions of people out of poverty and help restart the U.S. economy.

Senators Kaine, Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), and others have banded together to attack the alleged «web of denial» that appears to be made up only of conservative organizations that they claim are funded by ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel corporations that they consider immoral — even though the energy they provide has been indispensable to lifting and keeping billions of people out of poverty, and even though ExxonMobil has not given any of these groups a dime for a decade or more.

PA, how are you going to get billions of people out of poverty in this century, if they are going to rely primarily on fossil fuels for economic growth, and not dramatically increase CO2 emissions?

China and India «have, of course, every right to raise their people out of poverty the same way we did, by burning fossil fuels.»

Coal and fossil fuels can lift people out of poverty but at a high environmental cost.

Subsidies Not Going To Those That Need It Most As for the concern that in many developing nations keeping energy prices artificially low is needed to help raise people out of poverty, Birol noted that just 8 % of fossil fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20 % of people.

Getting out of poverty makes people more resilient to climate change (an ongoing phenomenon which was occurring even before fossil fuels came about).

But this makes no moral sense: The Chinese, who use an eighth as much energy per capita, are only beginning to burn fossil fuel in large quantities, and they're using it to pull people out of poverty, not indulge their taste for Lincoln Navigators.

The vehicle has the potential to provide significant societal benefits, including reduced fuel consumption, job creation and lifting people out of poverty by providing low - cost transportation that will allow people to get to jobs.