Sentences with phrase «phasing out fossil fuels from»

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.

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.

The bill removes taxpayer handouts to oil, gas, and coal companies, places a moratorium on almost all major fossil fuel projects, and phases out fossil fuels from the nation's energy system over the next 30 years.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

«Building on Ottawa's earlier commitments to set a national carbon price, establish a clean fuel standard and to phase out traditional coal power, these measures will help Canada make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

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.

«Phasing out cars that run on fossil fuels from cities is a good way to kick - start action but despite these headline - grabbing proposals the emission reduction targets in the plan lack ambition,» he added.

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.

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.

(10/05/2011) In 2009, G20 nations committed to phasing out fossil fuel subsidies over the medium term, yet are further away today than they were two years ago from keeping the pledge.

Germany and France will heavily shape future European and even global energy and environmental policies — Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium and other nations may also phase out their nuclear plants — but to date there has been little investigative reporting on the planned shift from nuclear energy to fossil fuels and renewables.

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 warmFrom 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 warmfrom catastrophic warming.

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.»

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.

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.

We show that as fossil fuel combustion is phased out in an urban coastal area, particle formation will decrease substantially but still continue at a reduced rate due to the contribution from OSC oxidation products.

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.»

Over the next few decades, we must complete the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, phasing out carbon emissions from coal, oil, and gas throughout the economy.

On page 271 we read that the WWF only began to «phase - out» fossil fuel funding from «BP, Shell and others» in the year 2000.

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».

And on page 271 we're told that the WWF began to «phase - out» fossil fuel funding from companies such as «BP, Shell and others» in the year 2000.

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.

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.

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 second figure shows that if coal emissions were thus phased out between 2010 and 2030, and if emissions from unconventional fossil fuels such as tar shale were minimized, atmospheric CO2 would peak at 400 - 425 ppm and then slowly decline.

However, the suggested timeline for phasing out existing production, «a full transition away from fossil fuels will take decades», belies the urgency of tackling the climate emergency.

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.

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.

The Paris Agreement is based on emission scenarios that move from a sluggish phase - out of fossil fuels to large - scale late - century negative emissions.

«Wind energy's major cost declines have, and will continue to be, critical to opening up new opportunities throughout Canada — whether it is to support the coal phase - out, or to fill an emerging power supply gap as nuclear power plants are refurbished in Ontario, or to help the northeast United States reduce its reliance on fossil - fuel powered generation through clean electricity imports from Quebec or Atlantic Canada.

That's why we asked President Obama to come and lend his weight to a number of important outcomes - from phasing out fossil fuel subsidies to mobilizing $ 500 million to support clean energy access, to increasing support for reproductive health and contraceptive access (not to mention a host of others).

Germany still gets over half of its electricity from fossil fuels and is phasing out nuclear as quickly as it can.

In 2009 the G20 agreed to phase them out in the «medium term», and a leaked draft document from the upcoming Rio +20 conference, to take place in June in Brazil, also has a section about eliminating fossil fuel subsidies.

It came across to many as a step back from the agreement of a G - 20 meeting last year in Pittsburgh, where leaders formally proposed phasing out subsidies for fossil fuels.

Will it entail phasing out fossil fuels and moving to clean energy or borrowing the dirtiest needle from a fellow addict?

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.

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).