As the report explains, a full - scale
phase out of fossil fuels needs to be well underway within the next 15 years.
«The GCEL is an excellent tool for political work with an important goal:
The phase out of fossil fuels, beginning with coal.
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.
When the G7 committed to a complete
phase out of fossil fuels, I was optimistic about the implications.
They support
the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies in the «medium term» and pledge a huge boost to renewable energy, including through a new $ 2 billion «Low Carbon Economy Trust» to fund clean energy projects.
Since 2009, the IEA has actively contributed to all energy work streams of the G20 — a group that accounts for 85 % of the global economy and 75 % of global energy demand — covering topics ranging from energy security and market transparency, to energy efficiency and
the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies.
Yet as Hansen notes, if the world began to
phase out of fossil fuel in 2005 the rate of reductions needed would only be 3.5 % while waiting until 2020 will require a 15 % reduction per year.
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.
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.
An ambitious set of policy measures, including the rapid
phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, CO2 prices rising to unprecedented levels, extensive energy market reforms, and stringent low - carbon and energy efficiency mandates would be needed to achieve this transition.
Not exact matches
Britain's last coal power station will be forced to close in 2025, as part
of a government plan to
phase out the
fossil fuel to meet its climate change commitments.
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.
Democrats and environmental groups latched onto Keystone as emblematic
of the type
of dirty
fossil fuels that must be
phased out.
Third, governments worldwide forged an historic climate agreement in Paris that will drive the global
phase -
out of fossil fuel generation over decades — and increase the demand for the technologies that can replace it.
After his departure, China said it plans to accelerate the use
of alternative - energy cars,
phasing out sales
of fossil -
fuel vehicles and turning the province into a free - trade port.
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.
He was speaking ahead
of Wednesday's Second Reading
of the Energy Bill, where he wants targets to
phase out fossil fuels and to decarbonise electricity generation.
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.
But, as Hansen wrote in an additional assessment
of his new analysis, «Environmentalists need to recognize that attempts to force all - renewable policies on all
of the world will only assure that
fossil fuels continue to reign for base - load electric power, making it unlikely that abundant affordable power will exist and implausible that
fossil fuels will be
phased out.»
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.
On the very night that current President Dilma Rousseff gave the closing speech
of the Rio +20 conference in June — the final agreement
of which promised to
phase out fossil -
fuel subsidies — the government said it would be reducing a federal
fuel tax to zero.
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.
Last week, the G7 leaders pledged to eliminate «inefficient
fossil fuel subsidies» but talks on
phasing out a form
of coal subsidy ended in stalemate.
It remains the fastest growing component
of the widening gap between the Ecological Footprint and the planet's biocapacity,» Wackernagel said adding that a global agreement that aims to
phase out fossil fuels could have a significant impact in helping curb the consistent growth and even shrink Ecological Footprint, humanity's demand on planet Earth.
The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line
of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately,
phase out investment in new
fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.
Putting a price on pollution can incentivise the
phase -
out of fossil fuels, but the existing carbon markets have so far not delivered a high enough price to drive the transition to...
Political frameworks should regulate the
phase -
out of fossil fuels.
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.
An unprecedented coalition
of close to 40 governments, hundreds
of businesses and influential international organisations has called today for accelerated action to
phase out fossil fuel subsidies, a move that would help bridge the gap to keep global temperature rise below 2 °C.
We could start by
phasing out all subsidies for the production
of fossil fuels and ethanol.
-- Implementing a partial
phase -
out of fossil fuel consumption subsidies accounts for 12 %
of the reduction in emissions and supports efficiency efforts.
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.
8)
Phase -
out of fossil fuel power.
In the new study, Hansen writes, «there is no morally defensible excuse to delay
phase -
out of fossil fuel emissions as rapidly as possible.»
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.
From the Bank
of England to the Pope, international government groups and the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, there's a growing push to
phase out fossil fuels to save the world from catastrophic warming.
The two scientists have already reported on the increasing costs
of delay in
phasing out fossil fuel sources
of energy.
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.»
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.
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.
In addition to the work in the World Energy Outlook, the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC since 2009, when G20 leaders took a major step toward reforming energy subsidies and committed to «rationalize and
phase out over the medium term inefficient
fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption», the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC in support
of their commitments.
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.
Some outlets have incorrectly reported that the World Bank Group will eliminate only their finance for
fossil fuel exploration, but it's even bigger than that: the World Bank described it as a commitment to end «upstream oil and gas finance,» which means they're planning to
phase out all
of their extraction - related finance.
The Australian government's Energy White Paper [x] plans to facilitate the expansion
of fossil fuel mining and export industries at a time when they must be
phased out as fast as possible.
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 fuels.
An overwhelming objection is that exploitation
of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... [I] f emissions from coal are
phased out over the next few decades and if unconventional
fossil fuels including tar sands are left in the ground, it is conceivable to stabilize earth's climate.
Progressively
phasing out fossil fuels in favor
of clean electricity is what USA should have been doing for the last 30 + years.
Most developed countries supported a text calling for a transition to a green economy that included
phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, the use and production
of renewable energies, and creating «green» jobs in this new economic model.
Our governments have not accepted the reality dictated by the laws
of physics and climate science: we must
phase out fossil fuel emissions rapidly.