Fossil Fuel Extraction and Climate Policy

Fossil Fuels: Bad for the climate, bad full stop - Amnesty International

As the realities of climate change become ever more real – wildfires, droughts, extreme temperatures, flooding – the calls for a complete ...

Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C

The Paris climate goals and the Glasgow Climate Pact require anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to decline to net zero by mid-century.

Fossil-Fuel Pollution and Climate Change — A New NEJM Group ...

The primary barrier to an equitable transition away from coal, oil, and natural gas is a lack of political will, underpinned by the influence of ...

The United States can take climate change seriously while leading ...

A number of Democratic presidential candidates are proposing to limit U.S. fossil fuel production as a way of combatting climate change, through ...

Cutting Greenhouse Gas from Fossil-Fuel Extraction on Federal ...

However, these same fossil fuels contribute high levels of GHG emissions to the atmosphere, exacerbate climate change, and have serious ...

The Power of Parallel Supply-Side and Demand-Side Climate Policy

2022), giving the federal government direct control over the extraction of these resources. Abroad, even larger shares of fossil fuel reserves ...

Fossil fuels, employment, and support for climate policies

The high fossil fuel share of total employment means that there will be enough respondents in this category in a national poll to produce statistically ...

Protect our public lands from fossil fuels - Earthjustice

The federal oil, gas, and coal leasing program is broken, and reforming it is crucial to meaningfully address climate change.

Fossil fuel production 'dangerously out of sync' with climate change ...

Despite increased climate ambition and net-zero commitments, governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of energy from ...

To Tackle Climate Change, Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground

The “disarmament” pillar of the FFNPT would involve the cooperative dismantling of the existing infrastructure for fossil fuel extraction and ...

Trends in fossil fuel extraction | SEI - Stockholm Environment Institute

Though fossil fuels have not been explicitly addressed by the UN Framework on Climate Change, a conversation has emerged about possible “supply- ...

Public Lands and Waters

Fossil fuel extraction on public lands and waters is responsible for nearly a quarter of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, making public lands a ...

Full article: Curbing fossil fuel supply to achieve climate goals

This so-called 'supply-side' policy emphasizes limiting the exploration, extraction and transport of coal, oil and gas in the name of combatting ...

Burn now or never? Climate change exposure and investment of ...

Our results align with the prediction that fossil fuel firms are initially inclined to intensify extraction in response to the expected introduction of ...

Averting Climate Catastrophe: Fossil Fuels Must End While ...

History shows that even when renewable energy has increased, it has not significantly impacted fossil fuel production. For example, only 34 ...

Report: Oil and gas drilling on public lands is fueling climate change

Fossil fuel extraction on public lands to release massive amounts of emissions ... The American Petroleum Institute has rolled out a multibillion- ...

Climate change: Fossil fuel production set to soar over next decade

Plans by governments to extract fossil fuels up to 2030 are incompatible with keeping global temperatures to safe levels, says the UN.

Keep It in the Ground - Center for Biological Diversity

A third report, Grounded The President's Power to Fight Climate Change, Protect Public Lands by Keeping Publicly Owned Fossil Fuels in the Ground, was the first ...

World's governments must wind down fossil fuel production by 6 ...

“The research is similarly clear on the solution: government policies that decrease both the demand and supply for fossil fuels and support ...

California releases final proposal for world-leading climate action ...

Reduce fossil fuel consumption (liquid petroleum) to less than one-tenth of what we use today – a 94% reduction in demand. Create 4 million new ...