Sentences with phrase «transition to renewable energy»

We might also ask that federal policy encourage a faster transition to renewable energy sources like wind and solar.

Today's action called for the freeze of new fossil fuels infrastructure and have a just transition to renewable energy.

Become part of the global transition to renewable energy.

Special interests have blocked transition to our renewable energy future.

We want political leaders who will help our people make the difficult transition to renewable energy.

The lesson is that dependence on dirty energy can often cost far more than an early, sustainable transition to renewable energy.

This update focuses on adding more nuance for different building types, and supporting an overall transition to renewable energy.

Some studies say a full transition to renewable energy will be cheap and easy, while others say it will be extremely difficult or practically impossible.

We know we need to transition to renewable energy sources — this must happen in the next century regardless of climate change.

But it is imperative that Americans and Canadians alike acknowledge that investing in infrastructure that supports a long - term commitment to exploit this emissions - heavy resource is hugely disadvantageous from the standpoint of transitioning to a renewable energy economy.

The Denmark - based brewery group is transitioning to renewable energy in a variety of ways and 2016, approximately 45 % of its electricity came from renewable sources.

The assumption is that the cost of transitioning to renewable energy from fossil fuels will either be negligible or unnecessary (since electricity generation would have largely transitioned to renewables).

By transitioning to renewable energy options, companies will be able to help their respective governments achieve national emissions reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement, and thus help stem global temperature increases.»

Only in China do we see a very rapid transition to renewable energy and electricity generation.

«We should be focused on transitioning to renewable energy instead of piping the dirtiest of fossil fuels from tar sands in Canada across the U.S. to the Gulf of Mexico so that it can be shipped to our competitors in China,» Gillibrand said.

Problem is solvable... make inevitable transition to renewable energies.

«We recognize that successfully transitioning to renewable energy will not only allow us to reduce our carbon emissions, but will also make business sense by offering us a hedge against fuel price risk.

The clients he has helped transition to renewable energy include Walmart, Safeway, Bayer, Hewlett Packard, Intel, local governments, and several universities.

Climate activists are trying to rally folks around an extreme agenda of halting new fossil - fuel projects, denying natural gas and oil industry's financial support by pressuring lenders and investors and pushing for a fast transition to renewable energy.

Cuomo has said the nuclear power produced at those facilities is preferable to coal or natural gas as the state transitions to renewable energy.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo says nuclear power is preferable to coal or natural gas as New York transitions to renewable energy.

The centerpiece of his campaign is a Green New Deal, under which the state would completely transition to renewable energy within 15 years.

In addition to a massive transition to renewable energy, the Green New Deal would invest in other public infrastructure, including mass transit, public housing, and a pubic broadband utility, as well as public services, including education, health care, and environmental protection.

In this case, the «delay» in decarbonization associated with large - scale CDR deployments could counter-intuitively enable a quicker transition to renewable energy, by providing negotiators with the ability to agree to more meaningful and quicker reductions in net emissions.

«This people's declaration on coal makes clear that in every country we demand a just transition to renewable energy controlled by people.

To more quickly speed up the on - going transition to renewable energy, China can, for example, work to peak its coal consumption by 2020, while the US can put money on the table at the Green Climate Fund pledging conference next week, allowing developing countries to boost their own action.

After just 18 minutes of the debate, conversation between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump quickly transitioned to renewable energy jobs as they discussed the economy.

«Initiating manufacturing in the U.S. will drive further growth of green jobs and support the ongoing transition to renewable energy sources.»

America's workforce for the millions of green - collar jobs that will be created by our historic transition to renewable energy — quality jobs in projects that include re-engineering the grid, installing millions of solar panels and wind turbines, retrofitting tens of millions of buildings, and rebuilding America's fractured manufacturing sector and industrial supply chain.

«There are also opportunities for companies as the world transitions to renewable energy and technical innovation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In a world in which the need for swift transition to renewable energy is becoming increasingly obvious and urgent South Australians have a right to be very proud of this wonderful achievement.

Lockheed Martin has already begun to help the military transition to renewable energy sources with solar photovoltaic powered microgrids [58] and as the military aims to reach 25 % renewable energy by 2025 [59] in order to improve national security.

Thanks to the popularity of the ITC, and its success in supporting the United States» transition to a renewable energy economy, Congress has extended its expiration date multiple times.

But it's important to recognize that moving away from fossil fuels will not be easy, and we hope to see elected officials at all levels support a just transition to renewable energy, including taking care of the communities that will need the most support along the way.

This, combined with a rapid transition to renewable energy and more efficient forestry and agriculture practices to sequester carbon, would reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels down to a safer level 350 parts per million by 2100, helping to restore the Earth's energy balance.

A carbon fee + dividend scheme such as suggested by James Hansen would not only go a long way to «curb massively the fossil fuel use», but it would also have the added beneficial effects of slightly redistributing income, improving public health, stimulating the economy and greatly accelerating the inevitable transition to renewable energy.

e that successfully transitioning to renewable energy will not only allow us to reduce our carbon emissions, but will also make business sense by offering us a hedge against fuel price risk.

With renewed political will, countries must now collectively assess progress on their national climate plans and come to COP24 in Poland with an intention to step up ambition by 2020 in order to transition to a renewable energy future.

Cleaning up our air by transitioning to renewable energy and electrifying our cars can decrease everything from asthma to heart attacks, autism to premature births.

The Alberta and Canadian governments are more interested in transitioning to renewable energy sources at breakneck speed through Legislative means, rather than developing the market organically.

The same is not true for oil, observes Merran Smith, a leading campaigner for the Great Bear Rainforest who now heads up Clean Energy Canada, an NGO focused on hastening the country's transition to renewable energy.

TenneT responded with a statement saying that the German - Danish border suffered from transmission bottlenecks, adding that transmission capacities were stretched to the limit because of market liberalisation and the transition to renewable energy.

A viewpoint common in the energy industry, and articulated in a recent report by Calgary - based Altacorp Capital Inc., The Energy Reality, is that the transition to renewable energy will be much more expensive and take much longer than is now imagined.

Accelerating a transition to renewable energy would help B.C. reduce carbon pollution and increase jobs in the sector from 11,000 today to over 15,000 over the next 10 years.»