Sentences with phrase «propping up fossil»

That is why the Fossil Free campaign aims to erode the institutional pillars propping up the fossil fuel industry driving the climate crisis.

Unless governments stop propping up fossil fuel companies, divestment will be limited, even with clean energy becoming ever cheaper.

Soon after that, he'll want to start propping up his fossil fuel interests.

Generous government subsidies are actually propping up fossil fuel exploration which would otherwise be deemed uneconomic, states the report, «The fossil fuel bail - out: G20 subsidies for oil, gas and coal exploration.»

Generous government subsidies are actually propping up fossil fuel exploration which would otherwise be deemed uneconomic, states the report, ``

Funds worth $ 12bn for modernising the power sector in poor member states are propping up fossil fuels, finds Carbon Market Watch

Because it doesn't take that much to disrupt the status quo, and once the status quo is disrupted, you suddenly find powerful businesses and organizations who were once propping up fossil fuels are now increasingly invested in developing alternatives.

The Holiday is appallingly written and icky besides in that familiar way of this brand of Love Actually / The Family Stone yuletide romantic refuse, casting Cameron Diaz and Jude Law as lovers fucking away the hours inside a Thomas Kincaid painting while Diaz's frumpy house - swap buddy, played by Kate Winslet, finds meaning in Santa Monica by propping up a fossil (Eli Wallach) and falling for a James Horner-esque composer of horrible soundtracks (Jack Black).

Continue spending 1 - 2 % of global GDP on subsidies that lead to unsustainable environmental practices, prop up fossil fuels, pesticide use, unsustainable fishing practices.

The move to nix the Clean Power Plan is a follow up to the dirty energy executive order President Trump signed in April and is another piece of the Administration's careless America First Energy Plan, which broadly seeks to prop up fossil fuels over cheaper and safer clean energy.

Indeed, as it seeks to prop up fossil fuels, the administration is heading in the opposite direction of almost every government in the world, a fact certainly not lost on other world leaders.

Watch this video to see what happens when enough people push against the pillars of support that prop up the fossil fuel industry, and demand, instead, an alternative reality.

New Zealand claim a top spot for rather hilariously, or not, urging countries to phase out fossil fuel subsidies while shelling out big bucks to prop up fossil fuel production to the tune of $ 80 million.

Not exact matches

My 11 - year - old self would never have believed that 50 years later our governments would be continuing to prop up the extraction and export of fossil fuels, rather than leaping to embrace the green future that awaited us.

A: They're doing a not - bad job of it if that's your goal, to find that big mushy middle where the Liberal party likes to live, where most Canadians or at least a lot of Canadians see themselves: we see the benefits of this industry and want it do continue to prop up our economic success, while we also see that we need to move away from fossil fuels.

Is the «business as usual» approach — subsidizing fossil - fuel supply and nuclear energy and large hydro projects, maintaining low energy prices to consumers by keeping environmental and political costs «external,» propping up oil supply by every available means — part of the solution or part of the problem?

when it came to tracking and exposing the less - than - good intentions of climate deniers and the fossil fuel companies propping them up.

Fear of stranded assets motivates fossil fuel companies to oppose responsible climate risk management and prop up climate science deniers

«If other G20 governments are serious about standing up to Trump's climate denial and meeting their commitments under the Paris Agreement, they need to stop propping up the outdated fossil fuel industry with public money.»

Billions of public dollars per year prop up coal through fuel use requirements, pricing provisions, programs in fossil energy research and development, and government «cost - sharing» for clean coal plants.

Just imagine the bellyaching if Big Fossil had to pay for the gifts of land and lost the tax holidays and other forms of propping up it enjoys?

Trump «approved» the federal permit for this project four days into his Presidency because it's more than a pipeline — it's a stand in for the fossil fuel economy his Administration is bent on propping up.

The head of the Energy Department made a ill - advised play to prop up the coal industry, the dirtiest fossil fuel, and said U.S. fossil fuels equal freedom.

He advocated for propping up coal, a dirty fossil fuel that has been displaced by natural gas as the top source of energy in the U.S. Not only that, he got the idea (or at least had it reinforced) courtesy of coal baron Bob Murray.

To break the grip of gas across Europe, we will need to support these local fights, as well as tackling the misinformation of the fossil fuel lobby, and the finance systems that are propping up the gas industry.

Together with heads of state and leaders from the public and finance sectors, he'll use it as an opportunity to prop up France's climate champion image, despite its continued investment in fossil fuel infrastructure.

Nevertheless, TAP, and the entire Southern Gas Corridor, is a climate - busting fossil fuel project that serves to prop - up corrupt regimes that trample over human - rights, and today's tragic news of the gas explosion in Baumgarten, Austria, demonstrates that these pipelines increase danger and vulnerability, not European energy security.

Not only do fossil fuel subsidies dwarf those for renewables today, but a long legacy of governments propping up oil, coal, and natural gas has resulted in a very uneven energy playing field.

Many countries have turned to fossil fuel subsidies at some point or another to reduce energy costs in order to cut transportation bills, prop up industries, or finance household electrification, particularly for the poorest families.

This report is about exposing the G20 government use of public owned money (collected through taxation) on subsidies for fossil fuel energy production, which is mostly propping up the income of privatised power producing infrastructure using or mining of fossil fuels, both of which are inherently filthy industries.