Sentences with phrase «phasing out fossil fuels in»

Who advocates phasing out fossil fuels in 50 - 100 years?

Phasing out fossil fuels in 50 - 100 years is possible and makes an enormous impact by stabilizing the CO2 level below 500 ppm.

Phasing out fossil fuels in 50 - 100 years while continuing or even accelerating the decrease in energy prices is possible and makes an enormous impact -LSB-...]

He has written about phasing out fossil fuels in 50 - 100 years, though I think he came up short of actually advocating that as an appropriate timeline.

Demesure, I think there's very powerful arguments for phasing out fossil fuels in favour of nuclear energy, even without AGW.

Progressively phasing out fossil fuels in favor of clean electricity is what USA should have been doing for the last 30 + years.

If the world fails to phase out fossil fuels in a reasonable timeframe, all other efforts to mitigate climate change will matter little.

They'll stress why it is important to gradually phase out fossil fuels in favor of cleaner alternatives like wind and solar energy, emphasize the national security benefits of scaling back oil imports and underscore the reality that America's own oil and natural gas resources will eventually run out.

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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.

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.

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.

She said that New York would be different if she were in charge, she promised to end cash bail, make New York a sanctuary state for immigrants, and phase out fossil fuels.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the end, natural gas will always be a fossil fuel that would need to be phased out (or its global warming pollution captured and stored) in the next few decades to avoid even worse climate changIn the end, natural gas will always be a fossil fuel that would need to be phased out (or its global warming pollution captured and stored) in the next few decades to avoid even worse climate changin the next few decades to avoid even worse climate change.

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.

«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.

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.

In contrast, warming reaches 1.5 °C and stays above 1 °C until after 2400 if emissions continue to increase until 2030, even though fossil fuel emissions are phased out rapidly (5 % / year) after 2030 and 100 GtC reforestation occurs during 2030 — 2080.

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.

-- Implementing a partial phase - out of fossil fuel consumption subsidies accounts for 12 % of the reduction in emissions and supports efficiency efforts.

-- 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.

In the new study, Hansen writes, «there is no morally defensible excuse to delay phase - out of fossil fuel emissions as rapidly as possible.»

(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.

The two scientists have already reported on the increasing costs of delay in phasing out fossil fuel sources of energy.

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 commitmentIn 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 commitmentin 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 commitmentin 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.

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.

Maybe we can deploy a technical fix, something that will buy us enough time to phase out fossil fuels, without crashing civilization in the process.

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.

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.

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»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»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»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»in a clean energy revolution».

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.

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.

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.

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 current text therefore reiterates the existing commitment, adding that «we will endeavour to make further progress in moving forward this commitment», encouraging all G20 members to initiate a voluntary peer review as soon as feasible, and noting the OECD / IEA progress report on the peer review process and facilitation of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies phase out.

«The principal requirement is that coal emissions must be phased out by 2030 and unconventional fossil fuels, such as tar sands, must be left in the ground.»

Governments spend about $ 300 billion a year on subsidies, and leaders said they'd like to «phase out and rationalize over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies,» in a statement released after the summit was over.

Canada has a critical role in supporting the Argentine G20 Presidency to deliver strong outcomes on climate, including progress on the phase - out of fossil fuel subsidies.

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.