Sentences with phrase «phase out fossil fuels with»

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.

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One school of thought says she should just plow ahead with her environmental agenda; history will be on her side in the end, since no one today (outside of maybe a few U.S. Republicans) doubts that the question of phasing out fossil fuels is not a matter of if but when.

The accord, which seeks to phase out greenhouse gas emissions this century with a shift from fossil fuels, says in its Article 28 that any country wanting to pull out after joining up has to wait four years.

While the climate situation is far worse than most people think, the options for quickly phasing out fossil fuel and nuclear energy and replacing them with clean renewable energy sources are much better than most people think.

That solution is to rapidly phase out fossil fuels and replace them with non-carbon sources of energy, use that energy with maximum efficiency, and use organic agriculture and reforestation to to draw down the already dangerous anthropogenic excess of atmospheric CO2.

Later this week, I will work with my colleagues at the G - 20 to phase out fossil fuel subsidies so that we can better address our climate challenge.

Realistically, this means planning to deal with inevitable climate trajectories is just as important as transitioning to renewable energy and phasing out fossil fuels.

Maintaining the momentum, and not forgetting where we started out, we rejoined with our Divest London friends at the beginning of 2016 with a sea - shanty / flooding themed event at City Hall, and celebrated a short while later when all four leading candidates for Mayor of London committed to work to phase out London - wide fossil fuel investments.

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.

Even with a managed phase - out, fossil fuels including natural gas, can have no substantial role beyond 2035 in an EU energy system compatible with 2 °C.

What: Activists will greet Gov. Brown with banners outside his scheduled appearance at the National Press Club to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects in California and a plan to phase out the state's dirty fuel extraction.

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».

Professor Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Teesside University said: «If the EU is to transform its energy system to align with the Paris temperature and equity commitments, it can not continue with business as usual and must instead initiate a rapid phase out of all fossil fuels including natural gas.

A movement called Just Transition aims to do just that — phase out jobs in high - emitting industries like fossil fuels or coal and replace them with equally good jobs in low - emitting sectors.

Finally, we learned Australia must support its carbon price with other new and existing policies to address domestic emissions, and start phasing out its fossil fuel exports.

Reacting to the launch of UK - Canada coal phase - out alliance, Chief Executive of the World Coal Association, Benjamin Sporton said: «With the world set to use fossil fuels, including coal, for the...

In accord with those values, we now move that the University makes a binding public commitment to phase out, at the least, over no more than five years, all investments in fossil fuel companies listed in the Carbon Tracker Top 200, seeking where advisable alternative investments in renewable energy.

There is a crying need for some place, preferably a place that is reasonably large, to demonstrate an energy & climate approach with the potential to go global, an approach designed to allow amplifying feedbacks that lead to rapid phase - out of fossil fuels as the price of fossil fuels becomes honest.

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.»

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.

Specifically, they say that humanity «must begin now to move toward the era beyond fossil fuels», and «the most difficult task, phase - out over the next 20 - 25 years of coal use that does not capture CO2, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with the efforts that went into World War II.

Reacting to the launch of UK - Canada coal phase - out alliance, Chief Executive of the World Coal Association, Benjamin Sporton said: «With the world set to use fossil fuels, including coal, for...

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.

Along with representatives from the Environmental Defence Fund and the Prince of Wales» Corporate Leaders Group, Agency experts detailed how increased energy efficiency, phasing out least - efficient coal - fired power plants, investing more in renewables, ending fossil - fuel subsidies and cutting methane emissions can limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

Dr Birol also held meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ministry of Environment and with New Zealand's Climate Change Ambassador, where the IEA and New Zealand agreed on the need to support global policy advice and quantitative analysis for the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies and the energy transition, both through bilateral collaboration and multilateral fora, such as APEC, the WTO and the G20.

In November 2015, the leaders of Asia - Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) economies, reaffirmed their landmark 2009 commitment to «rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption while recognizing the importance of providing those in need with essential energy services».

As such, Earth Island Institute is joining more than 700 organizations calling on Governor Brown to prohibit further permitting of fossil fuel extraction and related activities, and to phase - out existing production in line with the Paris Climate Accord.

Within the 2015 agreement, CAN calls for long term global goals of phasing out all fossil fuel emissions and to phase in a 100 % renewable energy future with sustainable energy access for all, as early as possible, but not later than 2050.

US academics are arguing with ferocity about how to achieve a fossil fuel phase out.

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

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.

The ultimate objective of this transformation is to phase out fossil fuel combustion with uncontrolled CO2 emissions.

The replacements of wind, solar, nuclear, etc with storage technology will phase out fossil fuels, which is heading toward its death - bed anyways.

«The GCEL is an excellent tool for political work with an important goal: The phase out of fossil fuels, beginning with coal.

Activists will greet Gov. Brown with banners outside his scheduled appearance at the National Press Club to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects in California and a plan to phase out the state's dirty fuel extraction.

As with phasing out fossil fuels, we know how to do these things.

You know, the idea that the problem we need to solve with regard to phasing out fossil fuels is to find other ways to «satisfy the energy hunger of suburbia» has got to go.

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).

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.

I think that this is of a piece with your discussion of a 50 - 100 year time frame for phasing out fossil fuel use.

Writer Craig Morris credits Lovins, and specifically this article, with the inspiration for Germany's Energiewende (Energy Turn or Transition), the national policy of advancing energy efficiency and renewable energy and phasing out first nuclear and later fossil fuel power.

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.