Sentences with phrase «phase out fossil»
Portland, OR, is proposing to meet all electricity demand with renewables by 2035, and to phase out fossil fuels from the transportation sector by 2050.
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Obama — he was continuing to approve offshore drilling and the things which, we would argue, don't make sense, since we have to phase out fossil fuels.
The original version of this story misstated the goal of Juliana v. United States, which is to phase out fossil fuel use.
«Reserve power is a cost - effective solution that will grow in importance over the coming years, including in Germany, as we continue to phase out fossil fuels.»
This sentiment has been ratified, sanctified, and tallied by the political, moral, and financial bellwethers of our time, from the Paris climate talks (195 countries committed to phase out fossil fuels this century) to the vatican (Pope Francis has made moral invocations to drastically reduce use of fossil fuels in the encyclical Laudato Si») to the Bank of England (the bank's governor Mark Carney has warned not to get stuck holding a bag of stranded fossil fuel assets).
Generically, what is required to head off the disaster is to phase out fossil fuel use ASAP, reforest / afforest ASAP, and perhaps take extraordinary measures to both remove carbon from the atmosphere and reduce solar influx to quench the self - sustaining feedback mechanisms before they get further out of control.
We Need to Phase Out Fossil Fuels, Quickly & Regardless of Cost - It's the Moral Thing to Do Slavery wasn't abolished, either in the United States nor in Great Britain, because a more economically efficient way of plowing, planting and picking produce was developed, not a better method of keeping houses clean, or building, or... or anything.
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...
They'll stress why it is important to gradually phase out fossil fuels in favor of cleaner alternatives like wind and solar energy, emphasize the national security benefits of scaling back oil imports and underscore the reality that America's own oil and natural gas resources will eventually run out.
Today we are faced with the need to achieve rapid reductions in global fossil fuel emissions and to nearly phase out fossil fuel emissions by the middle of the century.
«By 2030 phase out fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption.»
At yesterday's summit in Bavaria, the G7 leading industrial nations agreed to phase out fossil fuels by the end of the century.
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.
New Zealand claim a top spot for rather hilariously, or not, urging countries to phase out fossil fuel subsidies while shelling out big bucks to prop up fossil fuel production to the tune of $ 80 million.
We would also like to speed up the transition to renewables and phase out fossil fuel even more.
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 replacements of wind, solar, nuclear, etc with storage technology will phase out fossil fuels, which is heading toward its death - bed anyways.
The ultimate objective of this transformation is to phase out fossil fuel combustion with uncontrolled CO2 emissions.
So lets look at their use for this equation — «The ultimate objective of this transformation is to phase out fossil fuel combustion with uncontrolled CO2 emissions.
However, I subsequently presented the Judge a letter pleading for leniency in his sentencing and an expert report explaining the urgency of actions to phase out fossil fuel emissions.
If the world fails to phase out fossil fuels in a reasonable timeframe, all other efforts to mitigate climate change will matter little.
The bad news is humanity must phase out fossil fuels to keep the climate in the range we have experienced.
Exxon has faced increasing pressure over the years to «disclose» the risks its business operations could face because of global warming and future regulatory changes to phase out fossil fuels.
An unprecedented coalition of 36 governments, hundreds of businesses and influential international organisations has called today for accelerated action to phase out fossil fuel subsidies
If the international community aims to combat climate change and remain within carbon budget, then strong commitments to phase out fossil fuel use by mid-century must be made by politicians around the world.
For many countries, wind power has become a pillar in their strategies to phase out fossil and nuclear energy.
If the international community aims to combat climate change and remain within carbon budget, then strong commitments to phase out fossil fuel use by
«It also provided cover to some other G20 members — such as the Saudis and Russia — to weaken some climate sections of the document, including the pledge to phase out fossil fuel subsidies.»
We must leapfrog any continued discussion about «if,» and let the science tell us «when» (start immediately) and «what» (phase out fossil fuels completely within 25 to 50 years).
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.
The short time scale to phase out fossil fuels requires prompt and ambitious action.
At COP21 in Paris, nearly 200 countries forged an unprecedented agreement to phase out fossil fuel CO2 emissions from the built environment by mid-century.
Attempts to phase out fossil fuels with binding agreements — a major goal of this week's Paris conference — often pit developing countries against developed countries.
As if to illustrate this point, India has already announced that they oppose any deal that would have them phase out fossil fuels by the year 2100.
The climate talks at the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) 21 this December may require nations to implement policies to phase out fossil fuels, which would directly impact humanity's Ecological Footprint.
Scientists need to explain to the public that while they continue to study the details of anthropogentic global warming and consequent climate change, that we already know enough to be certain that continued unmitigated warming will be a disaster for all humanity, and that we urgently need to phase out all fossil fuel use as quickly as possible.
Post-Paris rich industrialised countries must learn what «fair share» means, and take action to urgently phase out fossil fuels.»
Wednesday, November 12, 2014: The tabling of national climate action commitments by the world's two major polluters, the US and China, adds welcome momentum to what will amount to our first steps in unison down a low carbon development pathway that brings us closer to a phase out fossil fuel pollution in favour of 100 % renewable energy.
He must explain that a rising carbon price is needed to phase out our fossil fuel addiction.»
This sentiment has been ratified, sanctified and tallied by the political, moral and financial bellwethers of our time from Paris (195 countries committing to phase out fossil fuels this century) to the Vatican (the Pope's moral invocations to drastically reduce use of fossil fuels), to the Bank of England (governor Mark Carney's prudent warnings not to get stuck holding a bag of stranded fossil fuel assets).
Our public lands aren't the only critical battleground in the fight to phase out fossil fuels — offshore oil and gas drilling is a growing threat to our health and climate.
I came out of that experience, and some other work it led to, believing more strongly than ever that the first priority — and second and third priority — is to radically increase the efficiency of energy use, rapidly phase out fossil fuels, and replace them with renewables.
The three demands strengthen one another — after all, one way of achieving a 100 % renewable future is to phase out fossil fuels, yet that won't happen if our cities, universities, schools or places of worship keep funding the fossil fuel industry.
This shared goal will require nations to implement policies to completely phase out fossil fuels by 2050.
IISD along with 37 other groups wrote to the Government of Canada to press upon» «the importance of fulfilling its commitments to the G7 and G20 to reform and phase out fossil fuel subsidies in Canada over the medium term.»
He reminded the gathering of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's 2014 call for UCT to phase out its fossil fuel investments.
Following the 2016 G7 announcement to phase out fossil subsidies by 2025, hopes had been high the G20 would follow suit and finally put an end - date to their phase - out pledge at the Hamburg summit this year.
Our governments have not accepted the reality dictated by the laws of physics and climate science: we must phase out fossil fuel emissions rapidly.
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».
Maybe we can deploy a technical fix, something that will buy us enough time to phase out fossil fuels, without crashing civilization in the process.