The two scientists have already reported on the increasing costs of delay in
phasing out fossil fuel sources of energy.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
To get there, the goal of our Climate and Energy program is reform that prioritizes energy efficiency and conservation,
phases out fossil fuels, and embraces environmentally appropriate clean power
sources.
Chaos would erupt as people try to survive Even if
fossil fuels are slowly
phased out, there are insufficientsustainable energy
sources for the Earth's current population andlevel of industrialization, especially for motor vehicleconsumption (e.g. transportation, shipping, mining, agriculture).
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).