Sentences with phrase «phase out fossil fuels by»

At yesterday's summit in Bavaria, the G7 leading industrial nations agreed to phase out fossil fuels by the end of the century.

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.

This shared goal will require nations to implement policies to completely phase out fossil fuels by 2050.

Financial Times Phasing out fossil fuel by end of next decade forecast to eliminate $ 22bn of losses More than half of...

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Critics say Dominion should move more quickly to help address climate change by phasing out fossil fuels, including natural gas.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

The Communiqué calls on the international community to increase efforts to phase out perverse subsidies to fossil fuels by promoting policy transparency, ambitious reform and targeted support for the poorest.

We could start by phasing out all subsidies for the production of fossil fuels and ethanol.

It's interesting that you keep pushing geoengineering while at the same time disparaging, rejecting, ignoring and otherwise expressing extreme negativity towards the multiple, readily implementable plans that have been put forward by multiple independent organizations and academic researchers, as well as government agencies, for rapidly phasing out CO2 emissions from fossil fuels using benign technologies that we have at hand now.

To achieve these reductions they propose phasing out coal - fired power stations by 2030 and scaling down the use of unconventional fossil fuels like tar sands.

11/19/17 — Despite its stated goal of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by aggressively pursing clean energy technologies and phasing out fossil fuels, Germany is still burning lots of an especially dirty form of coal and is likely to badly miss its upcoming emission - reduction targets.

The campaign launched last week with a letter demanding that Brown halt the development of all new dirty fuel projects in California, create a plan to phase out all fossil fuel extraction as quickly as possible and provide support and opportunities for those most impacted by the transition.

The report, entitled Financing Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas, calls on USEXIM and other nations» export credit agencies (ECAs) to phase out all financial support for fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest, in order to help prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

By some estimates, I - 732 would raise gasoline and electricity prices less than 15 percent by 2040 in Washington State — hardly enough to jumpstart an urgent, sweeping phase - out of fossil fuelBy some estimates, I - 732 would raise gasoline and electricity prices less than 15 percent by 2040 in Washington State — hardly enough to jumpstart an urgent, sweeping phase - out of fossil fuelby 2040 in Washington State — hardly enough to jumpstart an urgent, sweeping phase - out of fossil fuels.

Our governments have not accepted the reality dictated by the laws of physics and climate science: we must phase out fossil fuel emissions rapidly.

The next step is obviously to move from commitment to action, by raising the level of ambition of the Paris pledges, phasing out fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 and providing support to those most vulnerable to climate change impacts.»

«The principal requirement is that coal emissions must be phased out by 2030 and unconventional fossil fuels, such as tar sands, must be left in the ground.»

Morris also suggests an additional target: Phase out implicit fossil fuel subsidies by imposing energy taxes that reflect external costs, which has benefits 8 times their costs.

As part of its 100 - day priority plan, New Zealand's new government has pledged to set a target of carbon neutrality by 2050, which means phasing out fossil fuels and products that burn them.

The G20 fossil fuel subsidy review, pioneered in 2016 by US and China, is currently the only concrete step to make progress on the group's pledge from the 2009 summit in Pittsburgh to phase - out «inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that increase wasteful consumption».

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.

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).

The statement, signed by Aviva, Aegon NV, and MS Amlin, calls for governments to set «a clear timeline for the full and equitable phase - out by all G20 members of all fossil fuel subsidies by 2020.»

By some estimates, a phase out of global fossil fuel consumption and production — particularly coal and oil — will need to be nearly complete within 50 years.

Phasing out federal leases for fossil fuel extraction could reduce global CO2 emissions by 100 million tonnes per year by 2030, and by greater amounts thereafter.

G7 leaders — major MDB shareholders — have committed to phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies by 2025 (G7 2016).

Phasing out fossil fuels in 50 - 100 years is possible and makes an enormous impact by stabilizing the CO2 level below 500 ppm.

«All countries should aim for a global phase - out of unabated fossil fuel power generation by 2050.

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.

Regarding the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), the European Parliament set for a binding template for the NECPs and added into the template many important details, e.g. on phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, Member State's national trajectories for maintaining and enhancing the carbon removals from sinks as well as trajectories and objectives for energy from renewable sources produced by cities, energy communities and self - consumers.

The scientific study «Natural Gas and Climate Change» by Professor Kevin Anderson and Doctor John Broderick of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research reveals the urgency with which Europe needs to phase - out all fossil fuels.

What's worse, by clinging to growth, we'll continue to give short - shrift to transformative solutions such as localizing our economies and phasing out fossil fuels from our food, water, energy, transportation, housing, and health systems — moves that will only remain viable while we still have the resources to invest in them.

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.

Environmentalists, meanwhile, have been urging the G20's members to commit themselves to phasing out subsidies for fossil fuels by the year 2020.

Improving energy efficiency across the economy could strengthen energy security by decreasing the country's reliance on fossil - fuel imports, reduce pressure on public budgets that have historically shouldered billions of euros a year in energy subsidies (although some energy subsidies are now being phased out), reduce costs to consumers and improve the comfort and health of its residents.

Massachusetts lawmakers are considering making the state's electricity entirely fossil - free by 2035, and then phasing out fossil fuels from other sectors such as transportation by 2050.

If the international community aims to combat climate change and remain within carbon budget, then strong commitments to phase out fossil fuel use by

Ultimately, the Commission is seeking a global phase - out of unabated fossil fuel power generation by 2050.

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.

In the next two decades, according to the report, fossil fuel use will need to decline by about 20 percent — phasing out coal, in particular, would have a significant impact.

A pollution - free world driven by renewable energy is possible, say scientists with a plan for a fossil fuel phase - out for 139 countries.

The underlying conclusion of the report is that the time has arrived for taking the necessary steps to preserve livable conditions on earth: as quickly as possible, we must stop burning fossil fuels, aiming for a complete phase - out by around 2050.

Only by peaking GHG emissions in the year 2020 or sooner, and phasing out conventional fossil fuel burning around 2080, can we stay beneath the total of one trillion tons of carbon burned, which represents the threshold of catastrophic climate change, as shown in the following graphs:

It would be harder to say all this if the promise made by the G7 was not to «phase out» fossil fuels by 2100, but to instead focus attempts to make such a thing possible.

Phasing out these fossil fuel subsidies it would save 750 million tonnes of CO2 every year by 2015, up to 2.6 gigatonnes by 2035, Birol said.

«By 2030 phase out fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption.»

The WWF has recently come up with an energy proposal to phase out essentially all fossil fuel (plus nuclear) power generation by 2050, replacing this with renewable sources (primarily solar and wind).