• A first-of-its-kind database for tracking the world's fossil fuel production, reserves and emissions launched on Monday to coincide with climate talks taking place at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. (news4jax.com)
  • We need to accelerate the global transition away from fossil fuels. (yahoo.com)
  • They can simulate transitioning away from fossil fuels under four scenarios: continuing current trends, governments keeping pledges they've made, governments following sustainable development goals set by the United Nations, and the world achieving net zero by 2050. (news4jax.com)
  • Just transition - Fast track the adoption of clean energy and economic diversification away from fossil fuels so that no worker, community or country is left behind. (kairoscanada.org)
  • And when it comes to RBC, complainants say the bank's record of financing fossil fuel projects doesn't line up with its own public statements on the environment. (yahoo.com)
  • Fossil gas cars also emit as much air pollution as petrol ones and their limited advantage over new diesels that comply with the latest emissions standards could be eliminated by the planned introduction of new Euro VII/7 standards, the research shows. (transportenvironment.org)
  • Fossil gas could increase GHG emissions by up to 9% or decrease them by a maximum of 12% across all transport modes, the research shows, taking into account the effects of leakage of methane - a very potent greenhouse gas. (transportenvironment.org)
  • Phase-out is a term that world leaders in past climate negotiations and meetings of large economic powers have refused to back, instead opting for watered-down phrases such as "phase down" of unabated coal , allowing fossil use if its emissions are somehow captured and stored. (yahoo.com)
  • That means conversions to natural gas or the replacement of existing natural gas equipment in the next several years will ensure sustained usage of fossil fuel at least up to the state's 2030 deadline for halving carbon emissions and likely longer. (bostonglobe.com)
  • On Monday, Sept. 19, the worlds first public database of fossil fuel production, reserves and emissions launches. (news4jax.com)
  • The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels includes data from over 50,000 oil, gas and coal fields in 89 countries, covering 75% of global reserves, production and emissions. (news4jax.com)
  • This working paper outlines a recommended methodology for estimating and reporting the potential emissions from fossil fuel reserves held by coal, oil, and gas companies. (wri.org)
  • While the methodology can be directly used by fossil fuel companies to disclose potential emissions data, other groups, such as civil society organizations, investors, and stock market listing authorities, can use the methodology indirectly to press for disclosure. (wri.org)
  • Estimates of the potential emissions from fossil fuel companies' reserves is an important input into such decision-making, but no established methodology exists for estimating and disclosing these emissions. (wri.org)
  • Use calculation methods detailed in body of this paper to estimate the GHG emissions from fossil fuel combustion and the CH4 emissions from leakage. (wri.org)
  • Despite the importance of the potential CO2 emissions from fossil fuel companies' reserves, they are not currently disclosed by any company. (wri.org)
  • At the same time, corporate GHG reporting standards focus on historical emissions and thus neglect the most material portion of fossil fuel companies' climate impact. (wri.org)
  • The burning of fossil fuels and industrial processes account for almost 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. (kairoscanada.org)
  • And since Paris COP21 in 2015, where global leaders agreed to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global fossil fuel consumption has continued to rise. (kairoscanada.org)
  • Many countries that signed the Paris Agreement, such as Canada, continue to approve new fossil fuel projects worldwide, even though we know now that "burning the world's fossil fuel reserves would result in seven times more emissions than what is compatible with keeping warming below 1.5ºC. (kairoscanada.org)
  • A fair phase-out - An equitable plan for the wind down of existing fossil fuel production where nations with the capacity and historical responsibility for emissions transition fastest, providing support to others around the world. (kairoscanada.org)
  • Sulfur dioxide gas is released primarily from the combustion of fossil fuels (75% to 85% of the industrial sources), the smelting of sulfide ores, volcanic emissions, and several other natural sources. (cdc.gov)
  • Even among those eager to address climate change by moving past fossil fuels to clean energy - a class that includes a majority of Americans - there is a lingering mythology that US fossil fuels are, to use the familiar phrase, too big to fail. (vox.com)
  • In recent years, Welby has joined other religious leaders, including Pope Francis , in calling the global community to a more urgent response to climate change, including a just transition from the era of fossil fuels to clean energy. (ncronline.org)
  • The state's climate plan demands that 1 million households be converted from fossil fuels to electric heat by the end of the decade, part of a sweeping transition meant to help stave off the worst of climate change's consequences. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Most recently, the strategy compelled Harvard University to commit to fossil fuel divestment in September after students filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Attorney General in March. (ladailypost.com)
  • The Vatican has proposed fossil fuel divestment as an option for Catholic institutions on several occasions, including in its Laudato Si' Action Platform and in guidelines for implementing Francis' 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home. (ncronline.org)
  • It aims to complement other tactics such as divestment, debt relief and fossil fuel bans as well as the work being advanced by the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance and the Power Past Coal Alliance. (kairoscanada.org)
  • The data are from X-ray tomographic analyses of tubular fossils. (data.gov.uk)
  • They have been studying the fossils of a tubular animal named "Funisia Dorothea" found in Ediacaran rocks from the Flinders Ranges dated as 570 million years old. (creationfactfile.com)
  • The annual Climate Week, which coincides with the U.N. General Assembly, kicks off Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, with tens of thousands of people expected in the "March to End Fossil Fuels" Manhattan rally, one of hundreds of worldwide protests. (yahoo.com)
  • South Jordan, Utah: The Wasatch Gem Society (WGS), a 501(c)(3) non-profit, will hold their 2023 Annual Gem, Mineral, & Fossil Show, an affordable event for the whole family to explore and learn about geology and our earth from dinosaur diggers (paleontologists), miners, jewelry makers, gold prospectors and more. (kcpw.org)
  • The 2023 Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show opens at the Bastian Agricultural Center (formerly Salt Lake County Equestrian Center) at 2100 West 11400 South in South Jordan, Utah on April 14th and runs through April 16th, at $2.00 for adults and kids under 12 get in free. (kcpw.org)
  • The financial pivot follows through on a 2018 motion passed by the Church of England's General Synod that called for its national investing bodies to divest if fossil fuel companies had not aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement by 2023. (ncronline.org)
  • The World Council of Churches formally endorsed the Treaty Initiative in June 2023, acknowledging that "while some measures are being taken to lessen the impacts of climate change, the primary cause of the climate crisis - fossil fuels - has barely been addressed. (kairoscanada.org)
  • Mark Campanale, founder of Carbon Tracker, said he hopes the registry will empower groups to hold governments accountable, for example, when they issue licenses for fossil fuel extraction. (news4jax.com)
  • The extraction and use of the fossil fuels in companies' reserves would significantly exceed the remaining carbon budget for a 2°C temperature rise over preindustrial levels, leading to more frequent and severe extreme weather events, accelerated sea-level rise, and damage to infrastructure. (wri.org)
  • A rapid transition away from fossil fuel extraction and use is critical for limiting global warming. (kairoscanada.org)
  • Powering Europe's transport with fossil gas - widely known as 'natural' gas - would emit as much greenhouse gases as using petrol, diesel or conventional marine fuels, a new T&E report has found. (transportenvironment.org)
  • Fossil is a distributed version control system that has been widely used since 2007. (fossil-scm.org)
  • As UNM LEAF students we have been organizing consistently for over two years to have UNM take concrete action on climate change - to divest the endowment from fossil fuel companies, to update the 12 year old climate plan, and to plan for a zero waste campus by 2030. (ladailypost.com)
  • From 2013-2015, 350NM co-founder Tom Solomon attempted to persuade the UNM Regents, who oversee the Foundation's investment policy, of the poor long-term prospects for fossil fuel investments as well as the dangers of climate change from the continued use of fossil fuels. (ladailypost.com)
  • But they say their voices are not being heard, and instead the lobbying of fossil fuel interests are why climate talks have yet to produce an agreement to phase out coal, oil and natural gas, as scientists have repeatedly said must happen to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, like extreme weather events. (valleycentral.com)
  • The decision, made public June 22, makes the nearly 500-year-old Church of England perhaps the largest and most recognizable faith institution to publicly declare it is divesting from fossil fuels due to growing concerns around climate change and the threats it poses to life and the planet. (ncronline.org)
  • The global state of a fossil repository is kept simple so that it can endure in useful form for decades or centuries. (fossil-scm.org)
  • A fossil repository is intended to be readable, searchable, and extensible by people not yet born. (fossil-scm.org)
  • The global state of a fossil repository is an unordered set of artifacts . (fossil-scm.org)
  • Content artifacts are the raw project source-code files that are checked into the repository. (fossil-scm.org)
  • In addition to the global state, each fossil repository also contains local state. (fossil-scm.org)
  • In the current implementation (as of 2017-02-27) the artifacts that make up a fossil repository are stored as delta- and zlib-compressed blobs in an SQLite database. (fossil-scm.org)
  • If you are reading this on GitHub, then you are looking at a Git mirror of the self-hosting Fossil repository. (fossil-scm.org)
  • File ages are expressed relative to the check-in time of 2020-06-28 02:42:32 . (chiselapp.com)
  • While not attributing it to a decision to divest, the Vatican Bank in 2020 confirmed it had no investments in the fossil fuel sector. (ncronline.org)
  • KAIROS Canada endorsed the Treaty Initiative in November 2020 and is part of a growing movement of faith-based voices that are calling for a fossil fuel phase out. (kairoscanada.org)
  • FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2020, file photo, a resident walking through a flooded street looks back at storm damage caused by Hurricane Eta in Planeta, Honduras. (8newsnow.com)
  • FILE - Activists gather and walk through lower Manhattan for the Global Climate Strike protests, Sept. 23, 2022, in New York. (yahoo.com)
  • FILE - Attendees of the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit arrive, Nov. 6, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (valleycentral.com)
  • As United Nations leaders, scientists and others called for an eventual elimination of coal, oil and natural gas, various delegations at the conference were connected to those fossil fuel industries. (valleycentral.com)
  • As United Nations leaders, scientists and others called for an eventual elimination of coal, oil and natural gas, various delegations included attendees who in some way owed part or all of their paychecks to fossil fuel burning. (valleycentral.com)
  • The International Energy Agency also maintains public data on oil, gas and coal, but it focuses on the demand for those fossil fuels, whereas the new database includes fuels still underground. (news4jax.com)
  • As a starting point, use the Petroleum Resource Management System (for oil and gas) and the Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards template (for coal), or consistent national codes, to quantify the size of fossil fuel reserves. (wri.org)
  • We need a Treaty to end the expansion of fossil fuels and accelerate a transition to clean energy now. (kairoscanada.org)
  • It builds on decades of calls and campaigns for a fossil fuel phase out and fair energy transition by government, civil society, Indigenous, grassroots and other leaders - particularly from the Global South. (kairoscanada.org)
  • An artifact might be a source code file, the text of a wiki page, part of a trouble ticket, a description of a check-in including all the files in that check-in with the check-in comment and so forth. (fossil-scm.org)
  • Fossil currently computes artifact names using either SHA1 or SHA3-256. (fossil-scm.org)
  • Prior to Fossil version 2.0, all names were formed from the SHA1 hash of the artifact. (fossil-scm.org)
  • Scientists believe the mammoth fossils were buried at the summit of the Green Mountains for more than 8,000 years, and that the adult mammoth would have been more than eight feet tall and 10 feet long, and would have weighed approximately 1.7 tons. (statesymbolsusa.org)
  • Thursday, September 14 (noon EDT) KAIROS will host a Leadership Seminar with the Reverend Canon Rachel Mash from Green Anglicans (Anglican Church of Southern Africa) to discuss the faith-based movement for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and equip you to seek endorsement of the Treaty initiative in your church or municipality. (kairoscanada.org)
  • 7 The student knows that scientific dating methods of fossils and rock sequences are used to construct a chronology of Earth's history expressed in the geologic time scale. (carleton.edu)
  • The result of this multi-stage mineralization is fossil wood with striking beauty and a complex geologic origin. (researchgate.net)
  • Most likely, there are more fossil fuel companies operating in New Mexico that are held in the Foundation's private equity portfolio, but these are not publicly accessible. (ladailypost.com)
  • The complaints allege false or misleading environmental claims by fossil fuel companies or - in the case of a complaint against RBC - those who finance them. (yahoo.com)
  • The dominant narrative is still that fossil fuels are a pillar of the US economy, with giant companies like Exxon Mobil producing revenue and jobs that the US can't afford to do without. (vox.com)
  • It is imperative that fossil fuel companies, their shareholders, and other stakeholders have the information they need to make sound decisions in light of this need. (wri.org)
  • U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called earlier this year for fossil fuel companies to be held to account for the damage they caused despite knowing about the harmful effects of their products. (8newsnow.com)
  • The weighted average wholesale price for solar PV-generated electricity was $83 per megawatthour (MWh) in 2019, more than double the price paid to producers for electricity generated by wind, fossil fuels, or nuclear. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • Environmental campaigners called Wednesday for fossil fuel producers to contribute to a new fund intended to help poor countries cope with climate disasters. (8newsnow.com)
  • The key innovation in Fossil 2.0 was adding support for alternative hash algorithms. (fossil-scm.org)
  • Fossil Group Inc is a design, innovation and distribution company in consumer fashion accessories. (gurufocus.com)
  • This significantly eases working with old versions of files. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the complaint against Enbridge, as well as one against the Canadian Gas Association, activists take issue with the industry's depiction of natural gas as a 'clean' energy solution, arguing that natural gas is a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming. (yahoo.com)
  • fs is also an archival file system which originally was designed to store data on a WORM optical disc system. (wikipedia.org)
  • The permanent storage for fossil is provided by Venti, which typically stores data on hard drives, which have much lower access times than optical discs. (wikipedia.org)
  • The data consist of a stacked series of .tif files that represent maps of X-ray attenuation. (data.gov.uk)
  • Close to 400 people connected in some way or another to fossil fuel industries attended last year's United Nations climate talks in Egypt, a grouping that was larger than all but two of the national delegations sent by countries, according to a data analysis of the more than 24,000 participants by The Associated Press. (valleycentral.com)
  • There was already private data available for purchase, and analysis of the world's fossil fuel usage and reserves. (news4jax.com)
  • CHECKIN response payloads to streamline the structures, remove duplicate data, and add file parent information. (fossil-scm.org)
  • The world has turned on [fossil fuels]. (vox.com)
  • Join us to hear from youth voices on why the world needs a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty now. (kairoscanada.org)
  • England's Canterbury Cathedral is seen in a file photo. (ncronline.org)
  • We cannot trust these politicians and we cannot trust the processes of the COPs because the fossil fuel industries are tightening their grip around their processes and dictating their outcomes. (valleycentral.com)
  • If the input prefix is not unique, Fossil will show an error. (fossil-scm.org)
  • It's also the target of the latest strategy by Canada's environmental movement, which has expanded its war against the fossil fuel industry to a new battleground: the federal Competition Bureau. (yahoo.com)
  • Massachusetts has ambitious climate goals, and not a lot of time to achieve them, which has some clean energy and climate experts questioning why a state program continues to promote fossil fuels with cash incentives for oil and gas home heating systems. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Fossil was originally designed to support the SQLite project but has been adopted by many other projects as well. (fossil-scm.org)
  • I like the emphasis on transparency in fossil fuel production and reserves, down to specific projects. (news4jax.com)
  • A manifest contains a list of artifacts for each file in the project and the corresponding filenames, as well as information such as parent check-ins, the username of the programmer who created the check-in, the date and time when the check-in was created, and any check-in comments associated with the check-in. (fossil-scm.org)
  • To date, more than 1200 cases have been filed since 2015, most of them in the United States. (lu.se)
  • Chesapeake Energy Corp., a massive US oil and gas company that led the fracking boom, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a bankruptcy court in Texas following the collapse of energy demand in the Covid-19 crisis. (vox.com)
  • It shows that the United States and Russia have enough fossil fuel reserves to exhaust the worlds remaining carbon budget to stay under 1.5 degrees Celsius warming. (news4jax.com)
  • In their analysis, the developers found that the United States and Russia have enough fossil fuel underground to exhaust the world's remaining carbon budget. (news4jax.com)
  • In fact, the fossil fuel industry is facing substantial structural challenges that will be exacerbated by, but will not end with, the Covid-19 crisis. (vox.com)
  • They can get a sense of the role fossil fuel production has played in different economies. (news4jax.com)
  • 6.1 Fossils are the preserved evidence of ancient life. (carleton.edu)
  • Although studies in animal development have revived interest in this idea11-13, it is apparently unsupported by fossil evidence. (bvsalud.org)
  • Vermont's original state fossil, the fossilized skeleton of a white whale, was re-designated the official state marine fossil . (statesymbolsusa.org)
  • There is also the pleasure to share our diverse research collection of marine vertebrate fossils, dating from the Late Permian through to Late Cretaceous. (lu.se)
  • Today, students, faculty, and staff at the University of New Mexico (UNM) asked the New Mexico Attorney General to investigate whether the UNM Foundation's Endowment investments in fossil fuels violate New Mexico state law. (ladailypost.com)
  • But in the past, those cuts have come largely by encouraging conversions from oil to gas, a less-dirty fossil fuel that the state plans to phase out. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Vermont designated the mammoth tooth and tusk discovered in 1848 at Mount Holly as the official state terrestrial fossil in 2014. (statesymbolsusa.org)
  • It can take snapshots of the entire file system on command or automatically (at a user-set interval). (wikipedia.org)
  • Subsequent communications from HAFO revealed that the general public, including children, could view and handle fossils in the Visitor Center. (cdc.gov)