The investors list a set of demands they say will help boost finance flows, which include plans for
phase out fossil fuel subsidies, support for low carbon innovation and more efficiency standards.
Today we are faced with the need to achieve rapid reductions in global fossil fuel emissions and to nearly
phase out fossil fuel emissions by the middle of the century.
There's a growing realization that staving off the worst effects of climate change will probably require
phasing out fossil fuel use almost entirely — and sooner than previously thought.
Major global insurance companies are urging G20 leaders to commit to a specific timeline for
rapidly phasing out fossil fuel subsidies — something they've repeatedly failed to do over the years despite numerous promises to end support for the industry.
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.
This new gas infrastructure is designed to last for at least 40 to 50 years, well beyond the time when we're supposed to have
completely phased out fossil fuels to stand a chance of not overshooting the irreversible 2 °C global warming threshold.
This work extends the analysis presented in Toronto in June 2010, in particular by updating the quantitative findings to include data for the year 2009 and providing a road map
for phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.
Attempts to
phase out fossil fuels with binding agreements — a major goal of this week's Paris conference — often pit developing countries against developed countries.
Within the 2015 agreement, CAN calls for long term global goals
of phasing out all fossil fuel emissions and to phase in a 100 % renewable energy future with sustainable energy access for all, as early as possible, but not later than 2050.
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.
While overall spending on climate - related activities is higher than on fossil fuels, there is still a lack of progress in
phasing out fossil fuel investments and increasing climate finance.
To recap, Rio has the potential to engage the world's youth to help push for meaningful progress
on phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, delivering universal clean energy access, and promoting women's rights and slowing global population.
In the context of the Group of Seven industrialized countries» recently announced intention to
phase out fossil fuels entirely by 2100, she says, «This product can not be made acceptable.
Wind power shares may be suitable for your portfolio, but the technology behind them isn't efficient enough to
yet phase out fossil fuels.
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.
D. Phasing out fossil fuels would amount to a policy of mass poverty for the American people, unless America turns to nuclear power, which is opposed by the same extremists who oppose fossil fuels.
With a commitment to
phase out fossil fuels during the next several decades, while fundamentally transforming the energy system to clean sources, the tar sands would probably not be developed.
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.
Many were hoping for more ambitious push by 2050 — and many individual G7 member countries including the United Kingdom and the United States have emission reduction targets of around 80 percent by that date — but this collective commitment to
actually phase out fossil fuels completely, now signed onto by recalcitrant nations like Canada and Japan, represents a significant statement about where the future is headed.
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.
Divest from dangerous and dirty fossil fuel developments — coal fired power plants, oil shale fracking, deep - water oil drilling and Tar Sands and
rapidly phase out fossil fuel subsidies;
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.
Now that the cost of solar and wind energy is low and is getting lower, a low - cost electrolyzer system like that is shown here will move us a step closer to an H2 economy
while phasing out fossil fuels.
As part of its 100 - day priority plan, New Zealand's new government has pledged to set a target of carbon neutrality by 2050, which
means phasing out fossil fuels and products that burn them.