Sentences with phrase «phasing out fossil fuel use»

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The original version of this story misstated the goal of Juliana v. United States, which is to phase out fossil fuel use.

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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.

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

In September 2016, the G20 countries re-affirmed their 2009 commitment (at the G20 Leaders» Summit) to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and many national governments are using today's low oil prices as an opportunity to do so.

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.

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.

-- Put a sufficiently high price on carbon and deliver the G - 20 commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, using these funds to contribute to the several hundred billion US dollars per year needed to scale up investments in renewable energy.

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.

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.

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...

The international community has committed to phase out subsidies for fossil fuel use, including in the electricity sector.

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.

Thus from a logical and scientific standpoint, Germany should first phase - out the use of more dangerous and environmentally damaging fossil fuels before pursuing a phase - out of nuclear power.

First, we must phase out the use of coal and unconventional fossil fuels except where the CO2 is captured and sequestered.

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).

In August 2015, a group of Islamic leaders from more than 20 countries published a sweeping declaration demanding nations to phase out the use of fossil fuels.

Should we phase out the use of fossil fuels over the next fifty years?

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...

To keep warming within 2 °C above pre-industrial levels — the goal reiterated in the Paris Agreement — fossil fuel use (and corresponding carbon dioxide emissions) must be phased out almost entirely within 50 years.

Scientists say unabated fossil fuel use must be phased out well before the end of the century to limit global temperature rise to 2C — the international goal.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed legislation that will phase out the use of coal for Oregonians» electricity, and the CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway conceded that fossil fuels are «probably dead.»

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.

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.

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.

But I don't see how it will produce steep reductions in GHG emissions within 5 - 10 years, and a nearly complete phase - out of fossil fuel use within 10 - 20 years at most, which is what is needed to avoid catastrophic warming, if indeed it is not already too late to do so.

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).