Sentences with phrase «rising clean energy economy»

CBC, The Guardian, The Star and numerous other publications reported on the Decarbonizer this week, while Corporate Knights CEO Toby Heaps explained to The Exchange's Dianne Buckner why this demonstrates that the global economic shift away from declining fossil fuel industries toward the rising clean energy economy is already under way.

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So we've pursued a series of policies aimed at encouraging the rise of innovative as well as more cost - effective clean energy technologies that can help America and developing nations reduce greenhouse gases, reduce our dependence on oil, and keep our economies vibrant and strong for decades to come.

Right now, scientists tell us that we're on track to see global temperatures rise up to 4 °C by the end of the century, with a shift to a clean - energy economy, we can still create the sustainable and prosperous future we all want.

«We're very much about trying to build a strong and powerful and good economy,» Podesta said Friday, «but that will come through investments in cleaner energy systems, not in reliance on the systems that we've had in place, which are now increasingly burdening our economy through these losses in agriculture, in forestry, in extreme weather losses, in storm surges, in sea - level rise.»

Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA, believes that cheap natural gas will collapse the coal industry, but in a post-coal world, natural gas prices will inevitably rise, ushering in the clean energy economy.

Here's a primer on what we know about America's clean economy so far — what it is, how it rose to prominence over the past decade and who's taking the lead as Congress dawdles on a national clean energy agenda.

Depending on how fast carbon emissions can be reduced (by switching to a clean energy economy based on renewable resources like off - shore wind, desert solar, green building technology and electric vehicles) the predictions are for a temperature increase to affect the region of between 2C or 3.6 F (if we move fast) and 4C (if we delay) which would be a 7.2 degrees rise Fahrenheit.

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